2010

Under Water, Slate, 9/1/10

Inside the Knock-Off Factory, The New York Times Magazine, 8/22/10

Barely Friends, Few Benefits, The New Republic, 8/6/10

The Stalker, The New Republic, 5/27/10

Flop House, The New Republic, 5/8/10

In a Ditch, The New Republic, 5/4/10

Fantasy Island: Democracy Edition, Mother Jones, March/April 2009

Slander, The New Republic, 1/8/10


2009

The Hostage Business, The  New York Times Magazine, 12/6/09

Talibanistan, World Affairs Journal, Fall 2009

After Mehsud, Slate, 8/7/09

Pakistan's Next Fight? Don't Go There, The Washington Post, 6/14/09

Back Pak, The New Republic, 6/3/09

Wanted: A New Home for My Country, The New York Times Magazine, 5/8/09

The Playboy Running Pakistan, The Daily Beast, 4/30/09

How to Save Pakistan, Slate, 4/27/09

The Idiot's Guide to Pakistan, Foreign Policy, March 2009

The Black Widower, The New Republic, March 2009

Breaking Point, The National, 3/20/09

The Saharan Conundrum, The New York Times Magazine, 2/13/09

 

2008
  

Faith and Ecstasy, Smithsonian, December 2008

The Tribal Fallacy, The Atlantic, 11/13/08

Witness To Musharraf's End, The New Republic, 8/18/08

The Dictator Takes Up His Golf Clubs, Slate, 8/18/08

Inside Saudi Arabia, Slate, 4/17/08-4/18/08

Like the Wild, Wild West. Plus Al-Qaeda, The Washington Post, 3/30/08

Musharraf Powerless, Islamists Defeated, Slate, 2/19/08

Pakistan Kicked Me Out. Others Were Less Lucky, The Washington Post, 2/3/08

On the Campaign Trail in Pakistan, Slate, 1/09/08-1/11/08

Next-Gen Taliban, The New York Times Magazine, 1/06/08

We are Ready to Die, The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1/03/08

Democracy is Not a Postcard, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2008

 

2007  

What's Next for Pakistan? Slate, 12/27/07

Pak It In, The New Republic, 11/10/07

The Hardest Part, TNR Online, 11/09/07

Martial Lawyers, Slate, 11/07/07

In the Name of God, Mother Jones, 7/19/07

My Buddy, The Jihadi, The Washington Post, 7/15/07

Farewell, My Jihadi Friend, Slate, 7/11/07

Street Fighting Men, TNR Online, 7/3/07

Radical Sheik, TNR Online, 6/21/07

Des mollahs à l'école de l'Occident, L'actualité, 6/1/07 (in French)

Pakistan's new ethnic war, Slate, 5/17/07

Revolution: The Islamist challenge to secular Bangladesh, Boston Review, May/June 2007

Who'd Be an Untouchable?, Slate, 4/19/07

Among the Missionaries, Slate, 4/18/07

Refugees or Rebels?, Slate, 4/17/07

The Army Comes to the Rescue, Slate, 4/16/07

Waiting for the Worst, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2007

Reform ing Pakistan's 'Dens of Terror,' Truthdig, 1/22/07

Getting to Know the General, The Washington Monthly, January/February 2007

 

2006

In Central Asia, New Players, Same Game, The Washington Post, 1/29/06

Borderline Mess, The American Prospect Online, 1/25/06

Kyrgyzstan Appears Set for Continued Uncertainty in 2006, Eurasianet, 1/3/06

Dushanbe's Living History, Foreign Policy, January/February 2006

2005

Valley of Jihad, The Weekly Standard, 12/26/05

In central Asia, US bid to be a "friendly" base, The Christian Science Monitor, 10/31/05

A Bridge too far in Central Asia?, Asia Times Online, 9/28/05

No Westerners Allowed, Contra Costa Times, 6/5/05

Between the Mullahs and Bush, The Progressive, April 2005

 

2004

The Art of Brinkmanship, Henry L. Stimson Center, 12/23/04

The paradox of anti-Americanism in Iran, The Daily Star, 11/17/04