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 U.S. Air Force flight carrying deported migrants arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Jan. 31.
A U.S. Air Force flight carrying deported migrants arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Jan. 31.

Trump’s Deportation Machine Takes Shape

Analysis
Jonathan M. Katz
A barricaded street at night with a fire in the background an silhouettes of four people in front of it.
A barricaded street at night with a fire in the background an silhouettes of four people in front of it.

The U.S. Is Preparing an Outsourced Invasion of Haiti

Argument
Jonathan M. Katz
A protester taunts police officers during Dessalines Day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 17.
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
The U.S. Cavalry, outside of the Great Wall of China
The U.S. Cavalry, outside of the Great Wall of China

When America Invaded China

Excerpt
Jonathan M. Katz
A soldier stands over debris in Haiti.
A soldier stands over debris in Haiti.

Haiti’s Convenient Disaster

Argument
Jonathan M. Katz
Supporters of assassinated Haitian president protest.
Supporters of assassinated Haitian president protest.

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

Argument
Jonathan M. Katz
A pro-Trump rioter yells inside the Senate Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.
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
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Haiti’s Inconvenient Truth

Dispatch
Jonathan M. Katz
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In the Time of Cholera

Argument
Jonathan M. Katz
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The U.N.’s Haitian Shell Game

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Jonathan M. Katz, Tom Murphy
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The U.N.’s Haitian Shell Game

Argument
Jonathan M. Katz, Tom Murphy
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