Shawn Macomber

MOSUL, Iraq — At times the shoots and leaves of the new (hopefully) democratic order in Iraq can partially obscure…

MOSUL, Iraq — It isn’t as if American soldiers are expecting sissy embedded journalists to be warrior souls, but one…

SAMARRA, Iraq — If only those so eager to disparage Iraqi Security Forces as a sham could see these brave,…

SAMARRA, Iraq — If one needs proof of the dire circumstances many Iraqis have been living under as the insurgency…

SAMARRA, Iraq — I was riding along with U.S. Army soldiers in a trio of armored Humvees visiting polling stations…

BAGHDAD — During the 1980s a thirteen-ton armored Winnebago would have been more likely to be the punch line to…

KUWAIT — Aside from journeys to Montreal to visit my future wife at McGill University and an ill-advised foray across…

As a teenager in communist Russia, composer and pianist Sergei Novikov broke the top 40 charts, toured the Soviet Union…

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Were the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic primary to be decided with a laugh meter rather than counted…

Joe Conason’s profile of Bill Clinton in the new Esquire is notable mostly in how blandly soundbite-ish the rhetoric of…