Recovering foreign correspondent slash war reporter. Author of “Love Thy Neighbor” and “Crude World.” Done time at the NYT, WP, Intercept.https://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mxfjjba2fk26Read. Janet's. Book. "The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts" [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2026 22:36 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfjjba2fk26https://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mxfbltfjkk2wJob alert: the Economic Hardship Reporting Project is looking for a new executive director. Led for a long time by Alissa Quart (my spouse), the EHRP was started by the late Barbara Ehrenreich and supports journalism about inequality in America. https://careers.economichardship.org/jobs/657289-executive-director08 Oct 2026 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxfbltfjkk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mx7h7ckqrs2aIn which @anandwrites.bsky.social raves about Janet Reitman's masterpiece on the America of 9/11. On Wednesday at the Lofty Pigeon in Brooklyn, I'll interview Janet for the book's launch. Details in next skeet. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/books/review/the-inheritance-janet-reitman.html06 Oct 2026 12:39 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx7h7ckqrs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mwuc7embms2xHave listened to a lot about Gaza and genocide, this is the best so far. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Oct 2026 02:10 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuc7embms2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mwuc3k6v6k2xAnother genocidaire who I reported on in Bosnia is gone. Served eight years in prison, should have been a lifetime. https://balkaninsight.com/2026/10/01/bosnian-serb-wartime-leader-biljana-plavsic-dies-aged-96/btj/02 Oct 2026 02:08 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwuc3k6v6k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mwqksotrrk2sToday's withdrawal of the last U.S. troops in Iraq, after 23 years of destruction, takes me back to April 9, 2003, when Marines toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. I was there, here's what I wrote after years of reflection and reporting. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/10/the-toppling30 Sep 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqksotrrk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mw5ldcf6kc2bWill interview the great @janetreitman.bsky.social on Oct. 7 about her new book, "The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts," at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn. Please come, the cost of entry ($0) is out of whack with the value of the evening, I promise! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/janet-reitman-launches-the-inheritance-with-peter-maass-tickets-1999729277099?aff=ebdssbdestsearch23 Sep 2026 01:22 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw5ldcf6kc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3muplkl6zyc2nOn the 25th anniversary of "Nickel and Dimed," @alissaquart.bsky.social talks about the great Barbara Ehrenreich's legacy. https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/09/04/nickel-and-dimed-25-years04 Sep 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3muplkl6zyc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mumpgapryk2rWorking on the first draft of my next book, this hits hard and true. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumpgapryk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3muf4zjvgis2lNew poem by @alissaquart.bsky.social, here's a snippet! I’m trapped in a dream of childhood and violence, as I am trapped in so much beauty. Our sleep’s bogeymen now alive, creeping through newscasts, clumps of disinfo. A father throwing a colander is the president. https://yalereview.org/article/alissa-quart-pearly-everlasting31 Aug 2026 14:37 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf4zjvgis2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mu3hznmrhk27He got what he deserved, in the place he deserved it. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/world/europe/ratko-mladic-dead.html27 Aug 2026 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3hznmrhk27https://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mt2tbqd2ss25You have lunch with a cousin and mention the book you're working on, and the next thing you know, the papers of your great-great grandfather, Jacob Schiff, are going to be digitized. I'm glad to have played an odd little role in this. https://huc.edu/news/schiff-family-foundations-fund-digitization-of-jacob-schiff-papers/14 Aug 2026 18:51 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2tbqd2ss25https://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mrdfnuea7c26For moral injury readers: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-marine.html23 Jul 2026 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdfnuea7c26https://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mr3rnehsq22yLol I wrote about Judit Polgar for The Washington Post in 1992, when she was a 15-year old chess prodigy! More than three decades ago I noted that "the story of the Polgar family stretches the bounds of reality and even imagination" -- and reader, I was right! https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/03/11/home-grown-grandmasters/82928ac3-a934-4d0d-929b-d89ba020fa25/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jul 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3rnehsq22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mqshjwnfe22rNormally you see the Statue of Liberty behind the Brooklyn Bridge. Not this evening on the Q train.17 Jul 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqshjwnfe22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3moa4vp6fx22iBorn and raised in Los Angeles, lived all over the world, moved in 1997 to NYC, hands down the best city anywhere, anytime. [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Jun 2026 06:21 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3moa4vp6fx22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mo7f2t6p2225Brooklyn market two hours before Knicks-Spurs game — me and the guy polishing apples.13 Jun 2026 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo7f2t6p2225https://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mo7bulgthk2sLines to get into midtown Manhattan bars to watch the Knicks game. New York locked, loaded for the game tonight.13 Jun 2026 22:17 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo7bulgthk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mo7bn2fzvc2gMidtown Manhattan three hours before tipoff and everyone is wearing Knicks outfits, traffic’s a mess, helicopters overhead and the game is thousands of miles away in San Antonio! #LFGK13 Jun 2026 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo7bn2fzvc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mo5eoqggqk2dI submit, as relevant reading material for the thousands of you watching the scaffolding livestream at the Kennedy Center, the story I wrote about the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/01/10/the-toppling13 Jun 2026 04:02 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5eoqggqk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mnkavxf2zk2mWhy aren't more people talking about "Star City"? Superb mix of "Chernobyl," "Lives of Others," and "Apollo 13."05 Jun 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkavxf2zk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mnkabbpvz22aWhat would the original "60 Minutes" reporters think of Bari Weiss? Morley Safer's daughter has the answer in this resonant piece. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/cbs-bari-weiss-morley-safer05 Jun 2026 13:22 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkabbpvz22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mnigzfikrk2vLeonid Brezhnev would like a word.04 Jun 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnigzfikrk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mk6m5i7n2s2qDrone deliveries in NYC, the future I don't recall asking for.23 Apr 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6m5i7n2s2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3miwiopkgg22kRelated to the upcoming World Cup in the U.S., what should the world do when the host nation of a major sports event illegally attacks another? In 1980, the U.S. led a boycott of the Summer Olympics in Moscow over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott07 Apr 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3miwiopkgg22khttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3miw7urjmpc2sAs always, @attackerman.bsky.social is a must read: "This mass murder will not be [Trump's] alone. There is an entire political, security and media apparatus that brought us to this point." https://www.forever-wars.com/the-many-fathers-of-the-murder-of-iran/07 Apr 2026 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3miw7urjmpc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mivxkepeos2bApril 7, 2003, I ran across this bridge over the Diyala River in Iraq, past the body of this civilian. Bodies of a lot more civilians were on the other side of the bridge, killed by American fire. It was 23 years ago to the day, will never forget it. Iraq then, Iran now. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi)07 Apr 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivxkepeos2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/maassp.bsky.social/post/3mivv6unawk24To the Hague, those who give and follow illegal orders. Can't happen soon enough.07 Apr 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:n2zagbvlvalvqga632db5git/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivv6unawk24