JAMIE HOLMES is a writer and the author of the books The Free and the Dead, 12 Seconds of Silence, and Nonsense. His work has appeared in print or online in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, WIRED, The Atlantic, and USA TODAY, among other publications. He holds an MIA from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and previously worked at New America as a policy analyst in international development and served as a Future Tense Fellow. Prior to that he was a research coordinator at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, where he focused on behavioral economics.