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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Coordinated Taliban attacks test Afghan troops
A fresh spate of attacks since we entered the country on Friday have contributed to making the past thirty days among the most vicious since the Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001.
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Scene of a Riot
Rioting hockey fans took to Vancouver streets in droves Wednesday night following a hometown loss to the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Setting vehicles on fire, smashing windows and looting shops, the rioters converged on the…
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Mexcellaneous Vol. 3: The Divine Comida
Our first meal back in the United States was low-grade El Paso Italian and Budweiser. We weren't much interested in tracking down tacos.
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Drug War II: Revolución en el Norte
Caught between two sets of cross-hairs, Juárenses are living, not only under siege, but also under occupation.
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Drug War I: A Tapestry of Murder
Less dangerous than Culiacán, the state capital of Sinaloa and the Mordor of the Mexican underworld, Mazatlán is nevertheless where the drug lords come to spend their holidays.
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Migration V: Arriaga Postscript
Many of the migrants we met and befriended three months ago have since become the very statistics we hoped they might avoid becoming.
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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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