Criticism

His first "practical lesson about war: nobody really knows what he's doing."

We won't listen to war stories unless they're folded within another narrative -- like a thriller novel.

Ladies and gentlemen -- Bobby Kennedy, the first conspiracy theorist.

Like "End of Hunger" author Jeffry Sachs, who flipped the switch on Poland and Russia.

These unfortunate middle-class kids never wanted to work for Goldman Sachs -- society made them do it!

If only the real United 93 had failed -- like the movie -- to take flight.

Barry Bonds: From graceful base thief to pumped-up syringe-dart target.

A conversation with Gary Larson heir apparent Nicholas Gurewitch about death, drawing and who'd win in a fight between a bear and a falcon.

Reading, traveling and despairing in Southern India.

Pity the poor terrorist: Between Europe and the US, so many targets, so little time.

In hothouse of Middle-East, US nurtured fanatical Islam as hedge against Communism.

It's official: Thanks to MFAs in creative writing, there are now more writers than readers.

Terrorists bearing nuclear material set their GPS's for the Great Satan.

Was the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund enacted to alleviate suffering or silence inquiry?

Securing media shelf space for an overlooked region.

Mark Ames isolates a motive for school and workplace shootings.

If Eskimos back drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it can't be all bad, can it?

Jean Hatzfeld passes the mic to the killers of Rwanda.

All of post-colonial Africa in one book.

It's not just the 72 virgins.