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I edited and wrote part of a short book published by New America in July 2015 and freely available online, about how drones are being used in new ways around the world. It's meant to be useful to people who want to fly drones.The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
I wrote a chapter on the long history of drone technology going back to the early 20th century in this edited Cambridge University Press volume.
Rebuilding Haiti
12 February 2009
Weighed down by disasters
A modest success for the United Nations is threatened by nature and lassitude
The Caribbean
tags: Gonaives, Haiti, hurricanes, United Nations
Haiti
12 February 2009
The island and the outside world
Being in Haiti without being in Haiti
The Caribbean
tags: Gonaives, Haiti, Labadee, United Nations
Remittances to Mexico
11 December 2008
The end of the American dream
The recession up north bites in rural Mexico
The last days of the scribe
20 November 2008
The scribes’ lament
A dying profession in the heart of the city
Nicaragua–midterm elections
13 November 2008
How to steal an election
Daniel Ortega sets an ugly precedent
Honduras and Venezuela
30 October 2008
Zelaya plays the Chávez card
Why Honduras wanted 4m light bulbs
Central America
tags: The Economist
Mexico’s war with the cartels
30 October 2008
Spot the drug trafficker
The arrest of senior officials shows the government’s resolve in fighting drug traffickers-and that the rot in law enforcement reaches the top
Locked in the grid: how we fail each other
1 October 2008
An essay about how the breakdown of civil society in Mexico leads to inefficiency.
Mexico’s lame duck president
4 September 2008
Oh rose, thou art sick
The president faces a long goodbye
The Caribbean and the Olympics
28 August 2008
Champs and chumps
Why Jamaica outpointed Cuba
The Caribbean
tags: The Economist
Nicaragua
14 August 2008
Tearing up the rules
Daniel Ortega bans his foes
Central America
tags: The Economist
Refrigerator factory diary
8 August 2008
Birth of the cool
Notes from The Little Tramp’s stamping ground
Energy reform in Mexico
24 July 2008
Crude and oily
A controversial referendum and the future of the state oil company