Articles

The F-22 Raptor is said to be invisible…until it isn’t

Analysts liken fighter plane to a WWII Messerschmidt, saying it is a technological marvel with the latest weapons but that it will be poor in combat.
August 28, 2012
Ed Offley

A pre-election attack on Iran remains a possibility

President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons — and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran…
August 28, 2012
Leon Hadar

The Jobs Crisis

Photo by Arthur Rothstein. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. To the extent that there has been any attention paid to public policy issues amid all the mud-slinging in the…
August 27, 2012
Dan Froomkin

At least 1,400 arrests for antiwar dissent, but who’s counting? Not the press.

The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newsworthiness. By its lack of coverage, isn’t the press…
August 27, 2012
John Hanrahan

(Un)Covering the Death Squads in El Salvador

On the 30th anniversary of the brutal assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, a veteran reporter looks back at some extraordinary and daring close-in coverage that was spurred by personal…
August 27, 2012
Craig Pyes

Nine stories the press is underreporting — fraud, fraud and more fraud

From liars' loans to liars' liens, the financial and foreclosure crisis has been one big story of banks defrauding their customers — a vast criminal enterprise. You wouldn't know it…
August 27, 2012
Dan Froomkin

Taking a New Direction

Among the changes at the Nieman Watchdog Project is a closer alliance with Nieman Reports. Dan Froomkin, formerly deputy editor of the Nieman Watchdog website, is a new contributor to…
August 27, 2012
Nieman Reports staff

The flawed thinking of the administration’s torture advocates

An expert military interrogator wants to know why the president's legal advisers were so intent on rationalizing the violation of longstanding law in order to adopt an approach — coercion…
August 27, 2012
Steven Kleinman

The BP disaster underscores government as the problem, not the solution

After decades of planned neglect, mismanagement and ideological attack, the American government, across the board, has gotten out of the way of corporate America – and the country is paying…
August 27, 2012
Henry Banta

U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are committing atrocities, lying, and getting away with it

Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage…
August 27, 2012
Jerome Starkey