(Gannett News Service 3/1/2003)
On the ground with everyday Iraqis in Baghdad and Basra as the country braces for military invasion.
(Huffington Post 2/25/2011)
If you're wondering why free Iraqis would now walk like an Egyptian, and protest like one too, I can give you more than forty trillion reasons...
(Huffington Post 6/26/2009)
Op-ed about the prospects of federal government regulating the porn industry like it has big tobacco.
(USA Today 5/18/2004)
Political story on the partisan issue of gay marriage leading up to Bush's 2004 election.
(Conspire magazine 2/1/2011)
Centerpiece article/essay about walls visible and invisible that keep nations, peoples, religions, cultures separated and unfamiliar with one another.
(Huffington Post 2/26/2010)
Analysis of gun-control issues and the Tea Party.
(Gannett News Service Multimedia 10/10/2003)
Multi-part series of stories about NAFTA and American factory workers losing jobs to competing workers outside the United States.
(USA Today 4/9/2003)
War seen through the eyes of CNN and the military families left behind
(The Baltimore Sun 5/29/2005)
An investigation into how one state government (Maryland's) used its flood of homeland security monies.
(Wiley Books 4/1/2008)
Narrative nonfiction book. Summary:
Three decades ago in a cordoned-off corner of the developing world an angry Catholic priest armed only with pencil, paper, and crayons, declared a revolution. From a shanty school shared with Buddhists and Muslims in Bangkok's squatter slums, Father Joe Maier began his advance on abject poverty. Today, his Human Development Foundation and Mercy Centre charity is responsible for thirty-two preschools that have taught more than seventy thousand children how to read and write. Despite the crippling neglect found in impoverishment, he is raising international scholars and injecting a sense of purpose into shantytowns and squatter camps that used to have neither.
While extremists and jihadists rant, rave, and wrestle over the first rights to God, "Father Joe" quietly exudes God's universal, selfless spirit.
(Gannett News Service 3/12/2003)
In Baghdad, Iraq as U.S. peace activists brace for the inevitable start of Shock & Awe.
(Huffington Post 3/19/2010)
My pre-event coverage of the Truth Commission on Conscience in War hearings in New York City.
(USA Today 5/10/2001)
A look into the brains of killers such as Timothy McVeigh on the eve of McVeigh's execution.
(Salon 10/11/2004)
Three-part series/investigation into the private vs. public funding of Congress' decades-old "War on Cancer."
(USA Today 4/16/2004)
Feature story about a forensic lab with a ghoulish nickname: the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. The outdoor research facility in the Bible Belt city of Knoxville, Tenn., strives to be inconspicuous even as it trains the FBI and is touted by crime fighters nationwide as their brick on the scales of justice. Forensic facts gleaned from the human rot at the University of Tennessee Medical Center have been credited with jailing murderers from Mississippi to Arizona.
(Seattle Times 8/4/2002)
Investigation into the long-term consequences of U.S.-led, U.N.-enforced economic sanctions on Iraq.
(Huffington Post 6/4/2009)
My coverage of President Obama's inaugural speech in Cairo on peace in the Middle East.
(Huffington Post 6/10/2009)
Op-ed on strange death of David Carradine amid Bangkok, Thailand's robust sex tourism industry
(The Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Journal of Investigative 1/1/2006)
Cover story on how I and others investigated Maryland's Department of Homeland Security records for a series of stories in The Baltimore Sun.
(Sojourner's 1/28/2010)
Contributions to author Brian McLaren's blogs as he travels through the Middle East to investigate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
