Ben Taub has written for The New Yorker about jihadism, crime, conflict, climate change, exploration, and human rights, on four continents and at sea. His recent works have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, a National Magazine Award, two consecutive George Polk Awards, a Livingston Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Overseas Press Club Award, and other honors. He studied philosophy at Princeton and journalism at Columbia.