Tara McKelvey

Reporting on human-rights and corruption can be a treacherous business: Anna Politkovskaya, a Moscow-based journalist who wrote about Chechnya, was murdered in 2006, and last week human-rights worker Natalia Estemirova’s body was found by the side of a highway in Ingushetia. The New York Times’ Andrew E. Kramer, reported on the disappearance of an aspiring […]

So the CIA was planning to assassinate Qaeda leaders, as we have learned in The New York Times (and in The Wall Street Journal, too). It was an ambitious program, and it seems to confirm the spirit, if not the actual findings, of a new book called Guidance on the Ruling of the Muslim Spy, […]

Russians and Americans can get along, President Obama cogently explained at the graduation ceremony for students at the New Economic School in Moscow: “The pursuit of power is no longer a zero-sum game.” His words are meant to reassure Russians that their progress is being applauded, even encouraged, by people in the United States and […]

Now that Robert McNamara is gone, it is worth looking back at his legacy, not the least of which was the emotional morass that he left behind. He was despised by so many for what happened in Vietnam, and with such an intensity, that people even tried to assault him, as Paul Hendrickson described in […]

A news photographer told me that when he was covering the war in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, he discovered that the Army color-coded photographs that appeared in newspapers and magazines: Green meant that they liked the picture and that it reflected well on the troops; yellow meant that they had mixed feelings about the […]