Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Staff Writer

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor. He was The Post’s national editor and has served as an assistant managing editor. He was bureau chief in Baghdad for the first two years of the Iraq war. He also has been a correspondent in Cairo and Southeast Asia. He the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. A graduate of Stanford University, he joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff.

Latest by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

A turkey dinner, Baghdad style

A turkey dinner, Baghdad style

As U.S. troops prepare to celebrate their final holiday season in Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran recalls the challenge of acquiring a turkey in Baghdad during the war’s first year.

‘You can’t surge trust’

‘You can’t surge trust’

Afghan officials and U.S. commanders credit State Department representative Carter Malkasian with playing a critical role in the transformation of Garmser district.

The fall of ‘Little America’

The fall of ‘Little America’

Helmand’s chaotic descent.

In Afghan drawdown, U.S. faces quandary

In Afghan drawdown, U.S. faces quandary

Every U.S. commander in southern Afghanistan, it seems, has a reason for why his area should be exempted from troop cuts in President Obama’s ordered drawdown.