Seth Harp
Âé¶¹¹û¶³´«Ã½ (ASU Future Security) Fellow, 2025
Seth Harp is an investigative reporter and foreign correspondent who writes about the intersection of armed conflict and organized crime. A contributing editor at Rolling Stone, he has reported from countries including Iraq, Syria, Mexico, Ukraine, and elsewhere for ±á²¹°ù±è±ð°ù’s, The New Yorker, The Intercept, and Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for the New York Times and the Texas Observer.
He is the author of The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, a book for Viking Press about drug-trafficking in the U.S. Army Special Forces and a series of unsolved murders at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Before becoming a journalist, Harp practiced law for five years, and was an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Texas. During college and law school, he served in the U.S. Army Reserve and did one tour of duty in Iraq. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he was born and raised.
This bio reflects the fellow’s work and affiliations as of the completion of their fellowship project.
Selected Work
- : When the bodies of two veteran special operations soldiers turn up riddled with bullets in the woods of Fort Bragg, dark secrets emerge about the extent of drug-trafficking in the Special Forces, in this feature for Rolling Stone that is currently being expanded into a book for Viking Press.
- : A report for ±á²¹°ù±è±ð°ù’s during the 2022 battle of Kyiv on the formation of the Ukrainian International Legion.
- : An investigation for ±á²¹°ù±è±ð°ù’s on a plague of unsolved femicides on the outskirts of Mexico City.
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