Laurels and Darts

The Trump administration has repeatedly sought to muzzle national security reporting. It isn’t working.

Make it all make sense, Bari Weiss and Jeff Bezos! Plus: The Lens sees clearly.

Jessica Valenti’s rigorous reporting, plagiarism problems, and lifting the veil on an AI data center.

Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.

A documentary that resonates, why the press needs to pay more attention to Truth Social madness, and an impressive investigation from the Post and Courier.

Filming the correspondents’ dinner breach, Brendan Carr’s offensive play, and a damning investigation from the Tampa Bay Times.

Powerful reporting from The Intercept on Lebanon, ghoulishness from Forbes, and the Miami Herald reveals the harms of gambling addiction.

Reporters and content creators team up in the name of accountability. Plus: A wild tale of misrepresentation out west; following the money in Pennsylvania.

Impactful reporting from the San Antonio Express-News; Fargo columnists fed to the wood chipper; profiling the Big Beautiful Bill’s ugliness.

Examining “crisis pregnancy” centers in rural parts of Texas that lack maternal care. Plus: Bad AI practice and CNN’s good reporting from the West Bank.

SFGate’s national parks bureau makes waves. Plus: AI slop on slop at Vanity Fair, and holding Grammarly’s CEO accountable.

Noah Shachtman lands at the Times, somehow. Plus: A strong start for a Substack looking westward, and a Banner week in Baltimore.

Plus, why we should let Trump go to voicemail, and great work from Charleston’s Post and Courier.

Devastation in Iran. Plus: The death of a refugee in Buffalo, and the military’s “simmering white Christian nationalism.”

A profile of El Mencho. Plus: An incredibly long State of the Union that no one will remember; history repeats, nastily, in Georgia.