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Mark Bowden

Crime

The Mueller Report

Adapted by the author of “Black Hawk Down.”

Mark Bowden Insider Jul 2019 40min Permalink

Politics World

How to Deal With North Korea

“There are no good options. But some are worse than others.”

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Mark Bowden The Atlantic Jun 2017 30min Permalink

Best Article Crime World

Jihadists in Paradise

A ragtag band of pirate-Jihadists grab Americans from a diving resort in the Phillipines and lead them on an odyssey through the jungles of an archipelago with the competing interests of the Phillipines’ Navy and Army, the U.S. Military, and the C.I.A. thwarting their rescue.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Mar 2007 45min Permalink

World

Tales of the Tyrant

The daily life of Saddam Hussein.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic May 2002 40min Permalink

Crime

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Boston Marathon Bomber, Has the Most Ferocious Lawyer in America Defending Him

A profile of Judy Clarke, the publicity-shy anti-death-penalty attorney, who has defended the Unabomber, Susan Smith, and Jared Loughner.

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Mar 2005 25min Permalink

Politics

The Killing Machines

A briefing on drone warfare.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Aug 2013 40min Permalink

Crime

The Body in Room 348

Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair May 2013 30min Permalink

Politics

The Hunt for "Geronimo"

How Barack Obama decided to green-light the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Oct 2012 40min Permalink

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

How Don Johnson won $15 million playing blackjack over a four-month period.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Apr 2012 15min Permalink

Echoes from a Distant Battlefield

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2011 55min Permalink

Sports

The Hardest Job in Football

A profile of Bob Fishman, the impresario of CBS’s NFL production crew.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Feb 2009 20min Permalink

Politics

Among the Hostage-Takers

In 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy and held the entire American diplomatic mission hostage for fifteen months. Twenty-five years later, the students reflected on their actions, many with regret.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Dec 2004 35min Permalink

Crime Sex

A Crime of Shadows

The cop says she nabbed an online sexual predator. He says he was just willing to chat whatever it took to get laid in real life. Their story, from both perspectives.

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2009 35min Permalink

Best Article

The Case of the Vanishing Blonde

“From the start, it was a bad case.

A battered 21-year-old woman with long blond curls was discovered facedown in the weeds, naked, at the western edge of Miami, where the neat grid of outer suburbia butts up against the high grass and black mud of the Everglades.”

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair Dec 2010 30min Permalink

Politics

The Salesman

A profile of Joe Biden, whose political stock has continued to rise even as his boss’s falls.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic Sep 2010 35min Permalink

Best Article Tech

The Enemy Within

The Conficker ‘worm’ has replicated itself across tens of millions of computers. Only a few hundred people have the knowledge to recreate how, and no one (except its anonymous maker) fully understands why.

Mark Bowden The Atlantic May 2010 35min Permalink

The Professor of War

David Petraeus, father of the surge and the uncontested “most competitive” man in the military.

Mark Bowden Vanity Fair May 2010 45min Permalink