C.J. Chivers, a former foreign correspondent, is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. His Pulitzer Prize-winning cover story for the Magazine in 2016 led to the release from an Illinois prison of an Afghan war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Mr. Chivers was a Marine Corps infantry veteran of the Persian Gulf war, and he also had peacekeeping duties during the Los Angeles riots in 1992 before transitioning to journalism in 1994. He joined The Times in 1999, and worked in the New York City police bureau through the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. He then became a foreign correspondent focusing on conflict, human rights and the arms trade on assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Chechnya, Libya, Syria and elsewhere.
He is also the author of two books, including “The Fighters,” which chronicled the experiences of six American combatants in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Russian journalist gained international renown for her criticism of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya. Her murder in 2006 provoked vocal condemnation from inside Russia and abroad.
By Cassandra Vinograd
Ian Fishback, who left the Army with the rank of major, was a dissident-in-uniform who died at the age of 42 after entering a dizzying mental health spiral.
By C. J. Chivers
Video shows a device consisting of two tubes, bound together side by side with black electrical tape, similar to a double-barrel shotgun.
By John Ismay and C. J. Chivers
Portraits of the ordinary people of a desperate city, forced to become extraordinary.
By Alexander Chekmenev and C. J. Chivers
The apex predator is back along New England’s beaches. What will it take to keep people safe?
By C. J. Chivers
This was featured in live coverage.
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Najim Rahim and C. J. Chivers
More than two dozen others were rescued and taken to hospitals after the 40-foot craft splintered in rough seas, the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said.
By Neil Vigdor and Marie Fazio
A new book looks at the changes the British Army has undergone and roles it has played as an almost volunteer sidekick to the American military in the war on terror.
By C. J. Chivers
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan, it leaves behind broken and battered Afghan security forces to defend the country from the Taliban and other threats.
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Najim Rahim and C. J. Chivers
By Marie Fazio, John Ismay and C. J. Chivers