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Did the Iraq War Bring the Arab Spring?

The New Yorker Online
April 9, 2013
Guess what? The war in Iraq had a bright side. It created the Arab Spring.

That is the theory that proponents of the invasion are peddling on the tenth anniversary of the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, on April 9, 2003. They are trying to persuade ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on April 10, 2013November 29, 2020Categories Article, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, New Yorker

Was Petraeus Borked?

The New Yorker Online
When a D.C. video store revealed the Supreme Court nominee’s list of video rentals, it sparked a privacy backlash and a new law. Similarly, the Petraeus affair has put the government’s vast surveillance powers – even of elites – in a critical context.
11/14/2012
In ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on November 15, 2012November 29, 2020Categories Article, New Yorker, ProPublica, Surveillance and Privacy

Celebrating the Celebrations

The New Yorker Online
May 4, 2011
(An online-only article at NewYorker.com)

Can a news photograph be too vivid? It’s an essential question as we consider the pros and cons of President Barack Obama’s decision not to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse. So far, though, the American media ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on May 6, 2011November 29, 2020Categories Article, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, New Yorker

The Toppling

The New Yorker
How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war
January 3, 2011
On April 9, 2003, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan McCoy, commander of the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines, awoke at a military base captured from the Iraqis a few miles from the center of Baghdad, which was still ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on January 4, 2011November 29, 2020Categories Article, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, New Yorker, ProPublica, War DiariesTags War Diaries

The Supercool Top-Secret DVD-Decoder Song

The New Yorker
Talk of the Town
October 16, 2000
Since 1998, the Internet site MP3.com has served as an on-line bazaar, where any garage band in the universe can offer up its music and wait for the accolades to pour in. More than half a million songs are posted on the site, but Joseph ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on October 17, 2000November 29, 2020Categories Article, New Yorker

Moon at Twilight

The New Yorker
Amid scandal, the Unification Church has a strange new mission.
September 14, 1998
A little before dawn one day last April, a chauffeur-driven Mercedes sedan entered the grounds of an estate in Tarrytown, New York, and stopped in front of a brick carriage house that ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on September 15, 1998November 29, 2020Categories Article, Korea, New Yorker

Messages From Mir

The New Yorker
How the mistakes made on the Russian space station bring us closer to Mars.
October 20, 1997
It was ten at night, the day had been a long one, and before going to sleep Vasily Tsibliyev wanted to call Tamara Globa. She was turning forty, and there was a small party at ...  (Read more)

Author Peter MaassPosted on October 21, 1997November 29, 2020Categories Article, New Yorker

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