Basic Warrior Training
Increasingly prized by the NATO-led international military campaign as their ticket out of Afghanistan, the eight-year-old ANA has swelled in numbers and is projected to reach 250,000 by 2015.
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Photo Essays
Flightline I: Afghan Air Power
The newly reactivated Afghan Air Force has a long way to go before it catches up with its brother and sister divisions in the country's domestic security forces.
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Scenes from a Funeral
One week to the hour after insurgents were engaged with coalition and Afghan forces in a fierce nineteen-hour siege that had Kabul and the world on edge, a suicide bomber entered the home of ex-Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and detonated…
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The Other Train
You know how it is there early in the morning in Los Mochis when the train pulls out of the station past the goats and the chickens and the small gardens of agave and you wonder whether it will ever…
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A Big Blue Watery Road
Austin and I—either growing bored of conversing with each other or else beginning to crack under the pressure of our gruelling schedule—were so looking forward to our eighteen hour criss-crossing of the Gulf of California that we decided the trip…
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Night on Bald Mountain
” The Mexican … is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it; it is one of his favourite toys and his most steadfast love.” — Octavio Paz There are skulls in the presidential palace.…
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Migration III: The Good Shepherd
The Shelter of Jesus the Good Shepherd for the Poor and Migrant is for many of those who begin the journey from Central America to the United States the place where that same journey comes to an abrupt end [...]
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Migration II: Boarding the Beast
If a man, in all likelihood, will be dead within a week, and both you and he are aware of the fact, how do you speak with, engage with, be with him?
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Migration I: Waiting On the Arriaga-Ixtepec
After about three days in Arriaga, where we eventually spent a week, one feels inclined to paraphrase the famous opening narration from Casablanca [...]
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Mezcal, Mole and Mercados
We hired a little black VW Beetle to take us out to the villages around Oaxaca [...]
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