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The ‘Picnic’ That Brought Down the Iron Curtain
Book Review, The New York Times, November 5, 2023.
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Before His Death, I Asked the Manhattan D.A. What His Greatest Fear Was. He Answered: ‘Trump.’
The New York Times, March 20, 2023.
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‘The Only People They Hit Were Black’: When a Race Riot Roiled New York
The New York Times, December 10, 2022.
Adapted from Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty.
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How JFK's Death Hurt Bobby Kennedy's War Against the Mafia
TIME, October 14, 2022.
Adapted from Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty.
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"The God-Damnedest Thing"
POLITICO, September 23, 2022
The antisemitic plot to thwart U.S. Aid to Europe’s Jews and the man who exposed it. Adapted from Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty.
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Coming In From the Cold
BOOKFORUM, Dec/Jan 2017
On the life of spy turned novelist John Le Carré.
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The Unforgettable Fire
The Nation, October 9, 2015
Review of Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich.
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Can't Anyone Here Play This Game?
New York Times Magazine, July 25, 2013
Cover story on New York City's mayoral campaign.
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The Prisoner
New York Times Magazine, November 22, 2009
Profile of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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Putin’s Pariah
New York Times Magazine, March 2, 2008
Profile of the writer and opposition politician Eduard Limonov.
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Ukraine’s Revolution
National Geographic, March 2006
Profile of Ukraine after the Orange Revolution.
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Burnt Offerings
Financial Times Magazine, Feb. 19, 2005
On the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 and the legal fight for reparations.