Editing Mark Danner (section)

==Career==
===Early years===
After leaving Harvard, Danner joined the staff of ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', where he worked as an assistant to editor [[Robert B. Silvers]] from 1981 to 1984.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68496/ |title=The Most Powerful People in New York - Five Prominent Locals Whose Underlings Have Gone on to Big Things |website=Nymag.com |date=2010-09-26 |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref>  In 1984, he moved to ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' as a senior editor. In 1986, he joined ''[[The New York Times|The New York Times Magazine]]'', where he specialized in foreign affairs and politics, writing pieces about nuclear weapons and about the fall of the [[Jean-Claude Duvalier|Duvalier]] dictatorship in Haiti, among other stories.

===''The New Yorker'' and El Mozote===
In 1990, Danner joined the staff of ''The New Yorker'' shortly after the magazine published his three-part series on Haiti, "A Reporter at Large: Beyond the Mountains".

On December 6, 1993, for only the second time in its history, ''The New Yorker'' devoted its entire issue to one article, Danner's piece, "The Truth of El Mozote", an investigation into the [[El Mozote massacre]] in El Salvador, thought to be one of the worst atrocities in modern Latin American history. The Mozote article became the basis for Danner's first book, ''The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War'', which was published in 1994. ''The New York Times Book Review'' recognized ''The Massacre at El Mozote'' as one of its "Notable Books of the Year."<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7DA1630F937A35751C1A962958260&pagewanted=15 "Notable Books of the Year: 1994"]. "Notable Books of the Year: 1994", ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 4, 1994</ref>

===The Balkans and ''The New York Review of Books''===
During the mid-1990s Danner began reporting on the wars in the Balkans, writing a series of eleven extended articles for ''The New York Review of Books'', which began with Danner's cover piece, "The US and the Yugoslav Catastrophe" (November 20, 1997) and concluded with "Kosovo: The Meaning of Victory", (July 15, 1999).<ref>[https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/mark-danner/ "Contributor - New York Review of Books"]. "Contributor - New York Review of Books", ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', December 7, 2018</ref>

His 16,000-word essay, "Marooned in the Cold War: America, the Alliance and the Quest for a Vanished World," which appeared in World Policy Journal (Fall 1997) provoked a prolonged exchange of letters and responses from Assistant Secretary of State [[Richard Holbrooke]], Deputy Secretary of State [[Strobe Talbott]], Congressman [[Lee H. Hamilton]], and Ambassador [[George F. Kennan]].

===Iraq and the War on Terror===
Danner began writing about the war on terror soon after September 11, 2001, publishing "The Battlefield in the American Mind" in ''The New York Times'' in October of that year. He began speaking out against invading Iraq, notably in a series of debates with [[Christopher Hitchens]], [[Leon Wieseltier]], [[Michael Ignatieff]], [[David Frum]], [[William Kristol]] and others.<ref>"The Great Debate" by Gary Kamiya, ''salon.com'', January 30, 2003</ref> He reported from Iraq for ''The New York Review of Books'' in a series of lengthy dispatches including "Iraq: How Not to Win a War" (September 25, 2003), "Delusions in Baghdad" (February 12, 2004), and "The War of the Imagination" (December 21, 2006).

In May 2005 Danner wrote an essay for The New York Review accompanying the first American publication of the so-called "Downing Street Memo", the leaked minutes of a July 2002 meeting of high-level British officials that confirmed that when it came to the debate over whether to go to war in Iraq, "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," and that the invasion of Iraq was in fact a foregone conclusion. The essay provoked a number of responses and led to two subsequent essays, all of which were collected, along with relevant documents and a preface by ''The New York Times'' columnist [[Frank Rich]], in 2006 in ''The Secret Way to War: the Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History''.

In October 2016, Brian Lamb sat down with Mark Danner to talk about his latest book, ''Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War'', which looks at the 15-year U.S. war on terrorism. The interviewed aired on C-SPAN on Oct. 27, 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?417575-1%2Fqa-mark-danner|title=Q&A; Mark Danner - Video - C-SPAN.org|date=December 28, 2016|access-date=December 16, 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195226/https://www.c-span.org/video/?417575-1%2Fqa-mark-danner|archive-date=December 28, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===Torture and Abu Ghraib===
Beginning in the spring of 2004, he wrote a series of essays for ''The New York Review of Books'' on the emerging torture scandal that came to be known as [[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse|Abu Ghraib]]. In October 2004, he collected these essays and gathered them, together with a series of government documents and reports, into his book, ''Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror''.

In March 2009, Danner published an essay in ''The New York Review'', "US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites", which revealed the contents of a secret [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] report based on testimony from "high-value detainees" in the "War on Terror," who had been captured, held, and interrogated at secret US prisons—the so-called "black sites". Shortly thereafter, he published a second essay, "The Red Cross Report: What it Means" and released the full text of the report on ''The New York Review'' website. Weeks later, President Obama ordered released four Justice Department memos in which the Bush administration purported "to legalize torture." Senior Obama officials Rahm Emanuel and [[David Axelrod (political consultant)|David Axelrod]] claimed publicly that the memos' release was prompted by publication of the Red Cross Report.<ref>[http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0409/Emanuel_addresses_torture_memos.html "Emanuel Addresses Torture Memos] Politico.com</ref>

===Mark Danner On Donald Trump===
In the spring of 2016, Danner began covering the 2016 general election for ''The New York Review of Books'', profiling then Republican presidential candidate [[Donald J. Trump]] on his campaign trail. In May, ''The New York Review of Books'' published "The Magic of Donald Trump,"<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/the-magic-of-donald-trump/ |title=The Magic of Donald Trump &#124; by Mark Danner &#124; The New York Review of Books |journal=The New York Review of Books |date=May 26, 2016 |volume=63 |issue=9 |access-date=2017-07-22 |last1=Danner |first1=Mark }}</ref> and on Dec. 22, the magazine published "The Real Trump."<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/the-real-trump/ |title=The Real Trump &#124; by Mark Danner &#124; The New York Review of Books |journal=The New York Review of Books |date=December 22, 2016 |volume=63 |issue=20 |access-date=2017-07-22 |last1=Danner |first1=Mark }}</ref>

Following the articles, Danner has appeared as a guest on multiple radio shows, including  WNUR 89.3FM Chicago's "This is Hell!"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thisishell.com/interviews/934-mark-danner |title=What happens when Donald Trump's improv act takes the highest stage? |publisher=This Is Hell! |date=2016-07-09 |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref> and KALW 91.5FM San Francisco's "Your Call",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kalw.org/post/your-calls-inauguration-special-barack-obamas-press-freedom-legacy#stream/0 |title=Your Call's Inauguration Special: Barack Obama's press freedom legacy |website=Kalw.org |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref> to discuss Trump's presidency. He also has sat down with Bard President Leon Botstein twice to discuss President Donald Trump's first days in office and his approach to foreign and domestic policy.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bard College |url=http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=2866 |title=Bard Press Release &#124; Bard President Leon Botstein and Professor and Journalist Mark Danner Discuss President Donald Trump's Foreign and Domestic Policies in Public Dialogue on February 2 |website=Bard.edu |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.markdanner.com/orations/trump-abroad-trump-at-home-declaring-the-new-war |title=Mark Danner |publisher=Mark Danner |date=2017-02-02 |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VOFF&id=bard&date=2016-11-11&seq=1 |title=Bard College |website=Totalwebcasting.com |access-date=2017-07-22}}</ref>

In March 2017, ''The New York Review of Books'' published Danner's "What Could He Do?," which chronicles Trump's first days in office.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/03/23/what-trump-could-do/ |title=What He Could Do &#124; by Mark Danner &#124; The New York Review of Books |journal=The New York Review of Books |date=March 23, 2017 |volume=64 |issue=5 |access-date=2017-07-22 |last1=Danner |first1=Mark }}</ref>

Mark continued his coverage Donald Trump in the 2020 election. In October 2020, The New York Review of Books published Danner's "The Con He Rode In On," outlining the fallacies and damage of the Trump Presidency and campaign.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/11/19/the-con-he-rode-in-on/ |title=The Con He Rode In On; by Mark Danner; The New York Review of Books |journal=The New York Review of Books |date=November 19, 2020 |volume=67 |issue=18 |access-date=2021-01-29 |last1=Danner |first1=Mark }}</ref> After the 2020 election, Danner attended the Trump rally at the White House ellipse on January 6, marching to the U.S. Capitol, and reported on it in his piece "Be Ready to Fight".<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/02/11/stupid-coup-be-ready-to-fight-capitol-riot/ |title='Be Ready to Fight'; by Mark Danner; The New York Review of Book |journal=The New York Review of Books|date=February 11, 2021 |volume=68 |issue=2 |last1=Danner |first1=Mark }}</ref> "The Slow-Motion Coup," the first in a series of essays on January 6 and Donald Trump, appeared in the New York Review of Books.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Danner |first=Mark |title=The Slow-Motion Coup {{!}} Mark Danner |language=en |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/10/06/the-slow-motion-coup-mark-danner/ |access-date=2022-09-26 |issn=0028-7504}}</ref>