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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)
We Buried the Disgraceful Truth
Two books measure the human costs of more than a decade of continuous war
Consequence: A Memoir
by Eric Fair
The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
by J. Kael Weston
June 23, 2016 issue
An Eloquent Voice from Guantánamo
Guantánamo Diary
by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, edited by Larry Siems
January 14, 2016 issue
Hitler & the Muslims
Islam and Nazi Germany’s War
by David Motadel
Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination
by Stefan Ihrig
April 2, 2015 issue
The Reporter Resists His Government
James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War’
Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
by James Risen
February 19, 2015 issue
Citizen Bezos
Brad Stone’s ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by Brad Stone
July 10, 2014 issue
The King of the Foxes
Gabriel Sherman’s ‘The Loudest Voice in the Room’
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country
by Gabriel Sherman
April 3, 2014 issue
Hard on Obama
Vali Nasr’s ‘The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat’
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
by Vali Nasr
July 11, 2013 issue
Why 'Zero Dark Thirty' Fails
Judging Zero Dark Thirty’s claims to journalism
Zero Dark Thirty
a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
February 7, 2013 issue
Dead or Alive
The killing of Osama bin Laden
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden
by Mark Owen, with Kevin Maurer
October 25, 2012 issue
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
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
The Internet: For Better or for Worse
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
April 7, 2011 issue
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
The Cabinet of Dr. Strangelove
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
by Neil Sheehan
February 25, 2010 issue
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