Jonathan M. Katz

Jonathan M. Katz is a journalist. He is the author of The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster and Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. His newsletter, The Racket, can be found at https://theracket.news/.

Articles by Jonathan M. Katz

A protester taunts police officers during Dessalines Day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 17.

Haiti’s Elites Keep Calling for the U.S. Marines

Analysis

Jonathan M. Katz

October 31, 2022, 11:58 AM

The U.S. Cavalry, outside of the Great Wall of China

When America Invaded China

Excerpt

Jonathan M. Katz

January 17, 2022, 7:00 AM

A soldier stands over debris in Haiti.

Haiti’s Convenient Disaster

Argument

Jonathan M. Katz

August 18, 2021, 10:33 AM

Supporters of assassinated Haitian president protest.

U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again

Argument

Jonathan M. Katz

July 13, 2021, 2:26 PM

A pro-Trump rioter yells inside the Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.

It Happened Here

Argument

Jonathan M. Katz

January 9, 2021, 6:00 AM

Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Haiti’s Inconvenient Truth

Dispatch

Jonathan M. Katz

April 3, 2013, 8:06 PM

Mario Tama/Getty Images

In the Time of Cholera

Argument

Jonathan M. Katz

January 10, 2013, 10:35 PM

MINUSTAH via Getty Images

The U.N.’s Haitian Shell Game

Argument

Jonathan M. Katz, Tom Murphy

December 18, 2012, 7:14 PM

nd Tom Murphy

The U.N.’s Haitian Shell Game

Argument

Jonathan M. Katz, Tom Murphy

December 18, 2012, 7:00 PM

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