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What the press gets wrong on the US-Iran relationship
The stage has been set for yet another war in the Persian Gulf. This week, the Trump administration battened down the hatches—evacuating non-essential personnel at US embassies and consulates in Iraq, sending B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles to US bases in the region—to prepare for what was supposedly a looming Iranian storm. US officials floated...
New York reporters react to de Blasio’s White House bid
Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, wants to be president. Rumors of his candidacy circled the local press corps for months before coming to a head last week, when it was widely reported (and mocked). Yesterday morning, in a video posted to YouTube followed by a short appearance on Good Morning America,...
Unearthing the Black newspaper that sold the California dream to freed slaves
Standing on Slauson Avenue last month, Arianne Edmonds joined Angelenos who gathered along the 25-mile route of rapper Nipsey Hussle’s funeral procession. Thousands of fans thronged sidewalks to raise a fist or a camera toward his hearse as it passed through mostly Black and Latino neighborhoods in South Los Angeles. Even in mourning, they celebrated...
Anchorage Daily News, ProPublica take on Alaska’s sexual assault crisis
The town of Kotzebue sits low on a gravel spit where three rivers meet, 26 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Western Alaska. It is believed to be the oldest continuous human settlement in the Americas—9,000 years for the Iñupiat, who still comprise 75 percent of the population. Wild musk ox graze the stark...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
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