The New Yorker (July 2013)
This essay tells the story of the U. S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, emphasizing the ways that controversies over its uses and legal status have long and troubling histories. US access to the bay emerged from coercive diplomacy between the U. S. and Cuba in the early 20th century; American control, the terms of which were ambiguous from the start, would be challenged by Cubans and Americans, and new uses for the base repeatedly found when older ones collapsed.