The Great Divide: The Sadrist movement in Baghdad
Uprooted and Unstable: Meeting Urgent Humanitarian Needs in Iraq:
Egypt: Respond to the needs of Iraqi refugees:
Iraq: Fix the Public Distribution System to meet needs of the displaced:
“The Myth of the Surge” (Rolling Stone Magazine)
“Al-Qaeda in Lebanon” (Boston Review)
“Scapegoats in an Unwelcoming Land” (The Washington Post)
“No Going Back: Little Relief in Sight for Displaced Iraqis” (The Boston Review)
“What Bremer Got Wrong in Iraq” (The Washington Post)
“The Flight from Iraq” (New York Times Magazine)
“Security Contractors: Riding Shotgun with Our Shadow Army in Iraq” (Mother Jones)
“The Mayor, The Martyr, and the Pomegranate Trees” (Mother Jones)
“Leaving Iraq: The Grim Truth” (Rolling Stone)
“Anatomy of a Civil War” (The Boston Review)
“Hizb’Allah Party of God” (Truthdig.com)
“Hizb’Allah Party of God” in Arabic” (Wa3ad)
Did the Invasion Make Things Worse in Iraq?” (Salon.com)
“Thinking Like a Jihadist: Iraq’s Jordanian Connection” (World Policy Journal)
“Meanwhile…” (New York Daily News)
“Killing Fields” (The Washington Post)
“On the Ground in Iraq: The Roots of Sectarian Violence” (The Boston Review)
“Iraq’s Jordanian Jihadis” (The New York Times Magazine)
“Students, soldiers, sinners, spies: a journey through the terror of Pakistan”
My Essay in the Boston Review’s Iraq Exit Strategy Forum
“If America Left Iraq” for the Atlantic Monthly
“America’s Unlikely Savior: a Profile of Muqtada Sadr in Salon.com”
Profiling the Iraqi Elections in Kirkuk (The New York Times Magazine Magazine)
Analyzing the Iraqi Elections for Harper’s Magazine
Inside the Iraqi Resistance a Seven Part Series on Falluja for Asia Times
Published Letter to the Atlantic Monthly’s editor about Robert Kaplan’s Falluja Article
Unintended Consequences: A Forum on Iraq and the Mideast for The Nation Magazine
Every Time the Wind Blows: 5 part series with 3rd Armored Cavalry (Asia Times)
The New Republic: Gardez Dispatch on the Afghan Elections
Bullets and Ballots pre Afghan election series
The battle for Sunni hearts and minds
Defiant sheikhs and deadly shakedowns
In Tikrit, Sunnis are rising against U.S. occupation (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Marines Cast as Mongols (Time)
The Shi’ite voice that will be heard
Iraq’s cleric who would be heard
Muqtada’s powerful push for prominence
US newspaper ban plays into cleric’s hands
Beware of Iraq’s whipping boys
Shi’ite bombings: Civil war a step closer
Shi’ites hit at most sensitive moment
Iraq’s religious tide cannot be turned back
Just another Baghdad car bombing
How the Middle East is really being remade
“It’s All Bad News” Chaos in liberated Iraq
Iraq: Three from one doesn’t add up
American Intelligence and WMDs