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Steve Coll

Steve Coll is Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (May 2020)

Adolf Hitler in the workshop of the sculptor Josef Thorak, with Thorak’s bust of Atatürk behind him, Munich, February 1937

Hitler & the Muslims

Islam and Nazi Germany’s War

by David Motadel

Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

by Stefan Ihrig

April 2, 2015 issue

US army special forces walk in a field as Blackhawk helicopters transporting NATO officers land in Marjah's Balakino Bazar neighborhood on February 24, 2010.

The Kill or Capture Presidency

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.

October 12, 2012

Will Iran Get That Bomb?

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

May 24, 2012 issue

President Barack Obama studying a document held by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper during the presidential daily briefing in the Oval Office, February 3, 2011

Our Secret American Security State

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

February 9, 2012 issue

Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948; photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Kashmir: The Time Has Come

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

September 30, 2010 issue

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