Steve Coll
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist & Author
with host
Rubén Kraiem
Partner, Covington & Burling

The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The true story of US involvement in the Pakistan/Afghanistan conflict zones. Join The Common Good for a special discussion with the inestimable Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism, and staff writer at the New Yorker. Coll will brief us on America’s covert involvement in Pakistan and Afghanistan and its impact on our intervention there.

Steve Coll is the consummate journalist as author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and from 2007 to 2013 was president of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington, D.C. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and previously worked for twenty years at The Washington Post, where he received a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism in 1990. He is the author of seven other books, including On the Grand Trunk Road, The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, and Directorate S. Much of his work in recent years has been focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, terrorism, the Middle East