He is now a columnist and contributor for foreignpolicy.com. He worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker from 1993 to 1998, and then as a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2011. In recent years, he has reported from, among other places, Afghanistan, Angola, Congo, Egypt, Georgia, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Sudan.