David Zucchino
writer
David Zucchino is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reporting from South Africa. He’s a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of Iraq, Lebanon, Africa and inner-city Philadelphia. He has reported from more than two dozen nations, with a recent focus on Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq. He is the author of the books “Thunder Run” and “Myth of the Welfare Queen.” Zucchino left The Times in 2015.
Latest From This Author
Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network is in headlong retreat in Afghanistan and European police are rounding up other suspected terrorists, but investigators say a web of Islamic extremists remains on the continent and still poses a threat of attacks.
March 20, 2019
As 19 hijackers around the United States prepared this summer for a deadly day in September, authorities say, a related but decidedly different Islamic network was plotting an attack on an American symbol in the heart of Europe: the U.S.
March 20, 2019
The capstone to Maj.
June 14, 2015
Everybody’s worried about the Peachoid. Is it being torn down?
June 4, 2015
For years, Brett Jones lived a double life.
May 29, 2015
A sign hangs prominently in Lori Ballard’s kitchen: “Army Wife – Courage – Strength – Sacrifice.”
May 23, 2015
Jovano Graves’ parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
May 23, 2015
Duke Energy may have been hauled into federal court and smacked with a $102-million penalty for polluting North Carolina rivers with potentially toxic coal ash, but that didn’t do much for the tainted well water at Barbara Morales’ house.
May 17, 2015
Duke Energy, the nation’s largest electrical utility, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act for polluting four major rivers for several years with toxic coal ash from five power plants in North Carolina.
May 14, 2015
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May 11, 2015