The Interview

“If there’s anybody that should feel awkward, it’s going to be the people involved in making this decision,” she says. If the situation doesn’t work out, she may become a martial-arts influencer or a “warrior priestess of some kind for the digital age.” 

Research commissioned by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project suggests that newspapers fall short on covering the realities of working-class life.

“If a story is important in another part of the world,” Foreign Policy’s Ravi Agrawal says, “it is important in and of itself.”

Dave Jorgenson, cofounder of Local News International, on the post-Post life.

Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian discusses AI data centers, their impact, and what comes next. 

CBS’s Céline Gounder on how the rapid spread of the “diarrhea parasite” is a symptom of Trump’s government cuts—which have stymied access to crucial public health information.

In her documentary Ask E. Jean, Ivy Meeropol finds a subject with “a way of talking about sexual assault that I hadn’t heard before.”

Ken Bensinger on why corruption doesn’t move audiences anymore—especially not when it comes to FIFA.

Tucker Carlson on pitying Donald Trump, never listening to podcasts, and planning a new political party—while selling you nicotine pouches. 

“There’s no investigative reporting needed to understand what’s going on,” Lowell Bergman says.

Raney Aronson-Rath on Frontline’s expansion and the growing global appetite for cinematic investigative documentaries.

Ligaya Mishan on how the New York Times’ Top 100 Restaurants list is made.

Helen Branswell on the difficulty of reaching public health officials and credible experts amid the hantavirus outbreak. 

Tracy Clark-Flory went looking for her lost sister. She found a system that thrived on women’s shame.

Fifty years after a car bomb killed Don Bolles, an investigative journalist in Arizona, Jeremy Duda reconstructs a murder story that resonates.