Career
Cockburn has written about the Middle East for the New York Review of Books and co-produced the 1991 PBS documentary on Iraq titled The War We Left Behind. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Leslie Cockburn, a journalist and film producer with whom he has co-authored several books. He is also a regular contributing author for National Geographic and CounterPunch.
Cockburn's most recent book is Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy (subtitled An American Disaster in the UK edition). In the New York Times, reviewer Jacob Heilbrunn called it "perceptive and engrossing" and "quite persuasive." He also wrote The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine.
Cockburn is also known for writing "21st Century Slaves" for National Geographic. It was a groundbreaking article that shed light on the practice of modern-day slavery.
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