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The new Netflix comedy is a different kind of military television show, and an interesting model for how art can begin to sort through the Trump presidency.
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Comforting claims have circulated in recent days that there is nothing to fear from deepfakes. We profoundly disagree.
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What explains the general lack of interest in the Afghanistan Papers? Why didn’t this trove of declassified documents catch fire like the Pentagon Papers during Vietnam?
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The CIA should be held accountable for its mistakes, but it’s important to stick to the facts when doing so.
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Nine questions for Charles Brandt.
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Amid the hubbub of L’Affaire Ukrainienne, you could be forgiven for overlooking another story that has emerged out of Congress over the past week. It’s a grubby, unpleasant story—so much so that it feels...
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The press screwed up bigly on the Barr letter. Here are nine ideas for doing better the second time around.
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On Sept. 5, the New York Times published an anonymous op-ed by a “senior official in the Trump administration,” calling into question the president’s fitness for office. The author, call him or her Anony...
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In “'Okay, Let’s Go': Watching the New York Times on Trump” Benjamin Wittes largely extols Liz Garbus’s new documentary series, "The Fourth Estate" which chronicles the New York Times in the Trump era.
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Liz Garbus’s new documentary series, “The Fourth Estate,” opens with Donald Trump taking the oath of office on January 20, 2017, but it doesn’t linger long on the new president. After a few seconds of hi...
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That’s the remarkable claim purveyed this morning in a New York Times editorial. Here is the relevant passage:
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You may be forgiven for having missed Thomas Baker op-ed, “What Went Wrong at the FBI,” published in the Wall Street Journal on March 19. Eminently forgettable in its own right, the piece is worth noting...
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Last Friday, President Trump signed into law the Taiwan Travel Act, which makes it a U.S. policy to allow high-level meetings between Taiwan and U.S. government officials. News reports about the law have...
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No sooner did the internet ink dry on my analysis of Andrew C.
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An expose in Politico by Josh Meyer entitled “The secret backstory of how the Obama administration let Hezbollah off the hook” makes a damning charge: “In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with ...
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A recent New York Times story regarding the draft Nuclear Posture Review said:
A newly drafted United States nuclear strategy that has been sent to President Trump for approval would permit the use of ...
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At the end of November, the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump suggested to aides that he did not in fact make the offensive comments about women on the infamous “Access Hollywood” recor...
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Worried about a “criminalized politics,” Alan Dershowitz argues that “malleable” laws should be reserved for proper and not blatantly political uses. He fears that partisans are failing to observe restra...
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Did the sanctions regime that preceded the Iran nuclear deal enable the regime's most notorious actor, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)?