Jeff Greenwald

Obama is Spock: It's quite logical Obama is Spock: It's quite logical

Our president bears a striking resemblance to the rational "Star Trek" Vulcan whose mixed race made him cultural translator to the universe.
By Jeff Greenwald May 7, 2009

  • Saving the rain forests of the ocean

    How greens and villagers, and a bunch of big ceramic snowflakes, are reviving the devastated coral reefs of Indonesia.
    By Jeff Greenwald December 6, 2005

  • Saving the world by mutual back-scratching

    Activists have hit on a new way to save Indonesia's endangered tropics: Pay for local projects in exchange for conservation.
    By Jeff Greenwald November 25, 2005

  • What the tsunami dragged in

    Still sorting through the debris in Sri Lanka, officials are uncovering the explosive legacy of a wartorn area: Land mines.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 7, 2005

  • A full moon over Sri Lanka

    Inside Buddhist and Muslim temples, I discover how Sri Lankans are coping spiritually with the disaster. Nothing has been more moving during my entire trip.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 28, 2005

  • Tea with the Tamil Tigers

    Inside a camp controlled by Sri Lanka's militant rebels, I investigate rumors that the Tamil people are being shortchanged in tsunami aid.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 25, 2005

  • "Everyone here has post-traumatic stress"

    As the horror hits home in Sri Lanka, there are too many relief workers and not enough stress counselors.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 20, 2005

  • Toy story

    With a truckload of stuffed animals, soccer balls and Frisbees, we head to refugee camps to bring relief to the kids of Sri Lanka.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 18, 2005

  • The buried village

    A "Dateline" film crew gets in the way as I make my way to a former surfing hot spot, where families line up for hygiene kits, and a hotel owner, who reminds me of Lenny Bruce, reclaims fishing boats.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 12, 2005

  • Tsunami, ground zero

    After the waves hit, I dared myself to do something. Now I'm in Sri Lanka, where nothing will ever be the same again.
    By Jeff Greenwald January 11, 2005

  • Make wanderlust, not war

    Americans should stop listening to the fear-mongers and travel overseas. It's the best way to start bringing the U.S. back into the world community.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 26, 2003

  • Murder and intrigue in Kathmandu

    The massacre of the royal family in Nepal threatens the stability of a nation that has struggled toward democracy for over a decade.
    By Jeff Greenwald June 12, 2001

  • Letters to the Editor

    Make men deal with birth control; race, music and Macy Gray; Lycos should run "Jews for Jesus" ads.
    Letters to the Editor August 18, 1999

  • Total eclipse

    Encountering Iran on the cusp of change.
    By Jeff Greenwald August 11, 1999

  • Rendezvous of the sun and the moon

    Our eclipse correspondent witnesses ancient treasures and a modern miracle in Iran.
    By Jeff Greenwald August 11, 1999

  • "I am Buzz Lightyear!"

    Thirty years after he walked on the moon, Buzz Aldrin wants to send the rest of us.
    By Jeff Greenwald July 20, 1999

  • The new North Vietnam

    A visit to Hanoi and environs reveals the complicated legacy of the war.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 10, 1999

  • The Hollywood tourists never see

    The Hollywood tourists never see: Travel writer Jeff Greenwald finds life-changing adventure on the sound stage of an NBC sitcom.
    By Jeff Greenwald November 3, 1998

  • Festival time in Kathmandu

    Jeff Greenwald witnesses some mind-opening -- and pocket-emptying -- rites at three of Kathmandu's great spring festivals.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 20, 1998

  • Under the spell of Angkor Wat

    Jeff Greenwald revels in the astonishing ruins and riches of Angkor Wat.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 3, 1998

  • Looking for Kathmandu

    Jeff Greenwald finds gossip, chickens and sex in an excursion off the beaten track near Kathmandu.
    By Jeff Greenwald February 26, 1998

  • Beam me up, Dalai

    No technophobe, the Tibetan leader -- the Nicest Man in the World -- talks about robots and artificial intelligence, Spock and alien enlightenment.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 27, 1997

  • No time for "Trek"

    In India, poverty, nationalism and too many reruns conspire to ground "Star Trek" fandom.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 20, 1997

  • K@mandu

    Sanjib Bhandari may not exactly be the Bill Gates of the Himalayas. But his cyber-teahouses and other schemes are pushing Nepal down the "road ahead."
    By Jeff Greenwald March 11, 1997

  • "Planet Star Trek": part 1

    Why the Japanese love Star Trek
    By Jeff Greenwald February 6, 1997
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