Josh is a freelance writer and journalist
specializing in travel and foreign affairs.
Recently, he has published series of dispatches in Slate from Ukraine and western China, a report from Greenland in the Wilson Quarterly (not online; available on request) and on his encounters with Russian and U.S. intelligence in The Atlantic. He has a blog, New World Order, at True/Slant. He is a regular contributor to EurasiaNet, covering U.S. policy toward the Caucasus and Central Asia.
From April to October, 2007, he traveled throughout the former Soviet states of the Caucasus and Central Asia, producing a serial travelogue for EurasiaNet and Slate, as well as a blog, Istanbul-Beijing.
He worked as a staff reporter in the Washington bureau of Jane’s Defence Weekly from 2004-2006, covering the US Army and reporting on US military operations in Djibouti and Afghanistan.
He spent six months covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for Time, and two years in post-Milosevic Serbia writing for Time, the San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers. He started his journalism career with the Associated Press, working in bureaus in Pierre and Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Richmond, Virginia.
He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Williams College. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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