Michael Massing
Michael Massing, a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs.
From the Review
April 3, 2008: The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?
January 17, 2008: As Iraqis See It
December 20, 2007: Iraq: The Hidden Human Costs
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia, with John R. Bruning
Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier's Perspective by Paul Rieckhoff
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor
Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army by Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub
August 10, 2006: The Israel Lobby (letter)
July 13, 2006: Campus Watch (letter)
June 8, 2006: The Storm over the Israel Lobby
March 23, 2006: 'The End of News?' (letter)
February 9, 2006: 'The Enemy Within': An Exchange
December 15, 2005: The Press: The Enemy Within
December 1, 2005: The End of News?
December 1, 2005: Targeted in Lebanon (letter)
December 16, 2004: Iraq, the Press and the Election
August 12, 2004: 'Unfit to Print?' (letter)
June 24, 2004: Unfit to Print?
April 8, 2004: 'Iraq: Now They Tell Us': An Exchange
March 25, 2004: 'Now They Tell Us': An Exchange
February 26, 2004: Now They Tell Us
May 29, 2003: The Unseen War
December 21, 2000: An Open Letter to the President (letter)
June 15, 2000: The Narco-State?
October 7, 1999: The End of Welfare?
No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City by Katherine S. Newman
November 19, 1998: The Blue Revolution
Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic by William Bratton, with Peter Knobler
Getting Away With Murder: How Politics Is Destroying the Criminal Justice System by Susan Estrich
Politics, Punishment, and Populism by Lord Windlesham
December 18, 1997: West of Downtown
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, by Edward Burns
July 11, 1996: How To Win the Tobacco War
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger
The Cigarette Papers by Stanton A. Glantz, by John Slade, by Lisa A. Bero, by Peter Hanauer, by Deborah E. Barnes
Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up by Philip J. Hilts
February 1, 1996: Crime and Drugs: The New Myths
Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack by William M. Adler
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois
Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals by Mark S. Fleisher
The American Street Gang: Its Nature, Prevalence, and Control by Malcolm W. Klein
May 25, 1995: Hanging Out
Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men by Elliot Liebow
March 24, 1994: The Welfare Blues
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair by Susan Sheehan
February 3, 1994: Stuck in Traffic (letter)
July 15, 1993: Delusions of the Drug Cops
Swordfish: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal by David McClintick
March 4, 1993: 'Evil Money' (letter)
February 11, 1993: Drugs and the Law (letter)
December 3, 1992: The New Mafia
The Gotti Tapes: Including the Testimony of Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano foreword by Ralph Blumenthal, afterword by John Miller
War on Drugs: Studies in the Failure of U.S. Narcotics Policy edited by Alfred W. McCoy, edited by Alan A. Block
Evil Money: Encounters Along the Money Trail by Rachel Ehrenfeld
The BCCI Affair: A Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Operations by the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International
June 11, 1992: What Ever Happened to the 'War on Drugs'?
The Search for Rational Drug Control by Franklin E. Zimring, by Gordon Hawkins
Cocaine Changes: The Experience of Using and Quitting by Dan Waldorf, by Craig Reinarman, by Sheigla Murphy
Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street by Robert M. Stutman, by Richard Esposito
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results by Mark A. R. Kleiman
Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs by Clarence Lusane, with Dennis Desmond
December 19, 1991: The Betrayal of the Contras
Comandos: The CIA and Nicaragua's Contra Rebels by Sam Dillon
Executive Report 102–19 on the Nomination of Robert M. Gates to be Director of Central Intelligence report by the Select Committee on Intelligence
August 15, 1991: Can Saddam Survive?
June 27, 1991: Sitting on Top of the News
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
June 13, 1991: The Salvation of Panama?
Panama: The Whole Story by Kevin Buckley
March 28, 1991: The Way to War
October 25, 1990: The New Game in Guatemala
May 17, 1990: New Trouble in Panama
Our Man in Panama: How General Noriega Used the United States and Made Millions in Drugs and Arms by John Dinges
Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affair with Noriega by Frederick Kempe
March 1, 1990: The Two William Bennetts
September 28, 1989: How Free Is the Soviet Press?
May 18, 1989: Sad New El Salvador
March 30, 1989: Desperate Over Drugs
The Pizza Connection: Lawyers, Money, Drugs, Mafia by Shana Alexander
The Cocaine Wars by Paul Eddy, with Hugo Sabogal, by Sara Walden
Sealing the Borders: The Effects of Increased Military Participation in Drug Interdiction by Peter Reuter, by Gordon Crawford, by Jonathan Cave
Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel—An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption by Guy Gugliotta, by Jeff Leen
Desperadoes: Latin Drug Lords, US Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win by Elaine Shannon
White Rabbit: A Doctor's Story of Her Addiction and Recovery by Martha Morrison MD.
Drug Abuse Prevention: Further Efforts Needed to Identify Programs That Work
The American Disease: Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto MD.
March 2, 1989: 'The War on Cocaine': An Exchange
December 22, 1988: The War on Cocaine
May 12, 1988: Who Are the Sandinistas?
December 3, 1987: Haiti: The New Violence
February 12, 1987: The Chief
From New York Review Books
 | Now They Tell Us Michael Massing describes the American press coverage of the war in Iraq as "the unseen war," an ironic reference given the number of reporters in Iraq and in Doha, Qatar, the location of the Coalition Media Center with its $250,000 stage set. |
Books by Michael Massing
The Fix (1998)