Anand Gopal is a freelance journalist covering Afghanistan, Egypt, Syria, and other international hotspots. He has served as an Afghanistan correspondent for "The Wall Street Journal" and "The Christian Science Monitor", and his writing has appeared in "The Nation", "The New Republic", "Harper s", and" Foreign Policy", among other publications. Gopal is a fellow at the New America Foundation. "No Good Men Among the Living" is his first book.