Steve Coll is President of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His most recent book is Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. In July he will become Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. (February 2013)
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‘Disturbing’ & ‘Misleading’
February 7, 2013
Zero Dark Thirty a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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Dead or Alive
October 25, 2012
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden
by Mark Owen, with Kevin Maurer
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Will Iran Get That Bomb?
May 24, 2012
Preventing Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons: Constraining Its Future Nuclear Options by David Albright, Paul Brannan, Andrea Stricker, Christina Walrond, and Houston Wood
A Single Roll of the Dice: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran
by Trita Parsi
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Our Secret American Security State
February 9, 2012
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
Intelligence and US Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform
by Paul R. Pillar
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker
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The Internet: For Better or for Worse
April 7, 2011
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov
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Kashmir: The Time Has Come
September 30, 2010
Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir
by Arif Jamal
The Limits of Influence: America’s Role in Kashmir
by Howard B. Schaffer
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The Cabinet of Dr. Strangelove
February 25, 2010
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan
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The Kill or Capture Presidency
October 12, 2012
You’d like your government to tell you the truth, and the government dissembled repeatedly after the raid about what the rules of engagement were. They dissembled because the truth was uncomfortable and because the rules are secret, and they have this deep culture of secrecy in this administration, as in the last couple, about rules of engagement. What it highlights is that the United States does not have a detention regime that works anymore. Anytime it brings terrorists suspects into custody it generated political controversy. And so what you can see is a bias is built up in the system, in which the Obama Administration judges it’s just easier to kill people. That doesn’t create any political controversy.
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Steve Coll on the Killing of Osama bin Laden
October 9, 2012