Jon Lee Anderson
Jon Lee Anderson is a staff writer at The New Yorker who has covered conflicts throughout Africa and the Middle East. His books include “ To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban .”
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letter from roraima ·
In the Brazilian Amazon, illegal miners are ravaging Yanomami lands. Jon Lee Anderson embeds with a unit of combat-trained environmentalists who are fighting to save the rain forest.
a reporter at large ·
Jon Lee Anderson on Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, who was heralded as a unifier after ending a decades-long border conflict. Now critics accuse him of tearing the country apart.
a reporter at large ·
To get her fellow-citizens to care about threatened animals, Paula Kahumbu became a TV star, Jon Lee Anderson writes.
letter from bolivia ·
Jon Lee Anderson reports on whether the controversial socialist leader Evo Morales was deposed or escaped justice.
a reporter at large ·
Jon Lee Anderson on John Feeley, the Ambassador to Panama, for whom moral failings at home seemed to compound tactical failings abroad.
a reporter at large ·
President Obama’s plan normalized relations. It may also transform the nation.
a reporter at large ·
In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
letter from haiti ·
Jon Lee Anderson on Michel Martelly, the President of Haiti and the singer “Sweet Micky.”
a reporter at large ·
Will a grand national project enrich Nicaragua, or only its leader?
letter from havana ·
A crime novelist navigates Cuba’s shifting reality.
letter from syria ·
As Syria descends into civil war, can its rebel factions unite against the government?
a reporter at large ·
A year ago, Sudan broke into two countries. Will that end its long civil war?
a reporter at large ·
Sri Lanka’s brutal victory over its Tamil insurgents.
a reporter at large ·
Jon Lee Anderson’s 2009 story on the gangs of Rio de Janeiro, where favela residents often live under the de-facto authority of a gangster and his private army.
a reporter at large ·
The influence of Hugo Chávez.
letter from afghanistan ·
Who has the right to rule Afghanistan?
profiles ·
The President of Venezuela has a vision, and Washington has a headache.
profiles ·
Jon Lee Anderson profiles the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, a former general who led the country for seventeen repressive years after a U.S.-backed coup.
letter from liberia ·
LETTER FROM LIBERIA about President Charles Taylor... Liberia has always been a harsh place, but for most of this century it was one of the most stable …