Tim Golden

Tim Golden is an investigative journalist who writes about legal policy in the fight against terrorism and other issues related to the treatment of terror suspects. He is on leave from The New York Times, where he is a senior writer and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. He has spent much of his journalistic career as a foreign correspondent, covering civil wars in Central America, political and economic changes in South America, and the upheaval of the 1990s in Mexico and Cuba. As an investigative reporter, he has focused on national security, terrorism, and international organized crime. His journalism awards include two shared Pulitzer Prizes, one for articles that presaged the Iran-Contra scandal and a second for reporting on drug corruption in Mexico. His work on the military’s handling of terror suspects at Guantánamo and Bagram was a finalist for the Taylor Award for Fairness in Newspapers. He graduated from Dartmouth College and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.

As a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, Mr. Golden is examining American policies for dealing with prisoners in the campaign against terrorism and other aspects of the struggle to balance legal rights and security concerns.

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