I’ve been a writer and editor in Washington since 1980, mostly for the Washington Post and washingtonpost.com, but also for Harper’s, The New Republic, The Nation, and the Center for Independent Media.

I am an online journalist. From 2000 to 2006, I wrote the World Opinion Roundup column for washingtonpost.com, which analyzed political debates in the online media around the world. World Opinion Search is the successor to World Opinion Roundup.

I’m an editor. From 2007 to 2009 I served as the editorial director for the Washington Independent and a network of five other nonprofit state news sites, sponsored by the Center for Independent Media.

I am an author. My  2008 book, Our Man in Mexico, a biography of Winston Scott, CIA station chief in Mexico City in the 1960s, was described by Edward Jay Epstein in the Wall Street Journal, as “an enthralling account of Scott’s career as one of America’s most accomplished spy masters.”

I am an investigative reporter. My stories have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Readers Digest, Playboy.com, the Washington Monthly, Washington City Paper, Miami New Times, Slate and Salon.

I write and edit the World Opinion Search blog from Washington, D.C.