I’ve been stuck on the discussion about the resignation of New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. for the past few days. I don’t have a firm opinion on whether he should still be with The … Read more
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the increased prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement, editors across the country have made a concerted effort to hire more Black reporters, include more Black authoritative voices, and … Read more
When Yvette Cabrera was reporting an investigative series about undocumented minors in Southern California’s juvenile justice system, who were being referred by the probation department to immigration authorities, she noticed a disturbing pattern. Many of the … Read more
What if the people storming the Capitol on January 6 had been Black? Newsrooms around the U.S. posed that question as largely white pro-Trump rioters and white supremacists, incited by the president himself, stormed the Capitol, … Read more
“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” —Voltaire The carnage on January 6 was precipitated by a lie that the election was stolen from President Trump. The events that day would have remained in the … Read more
Most days, Paul Gillespie keeps himself to photographing the news, not commenting on it. January 6, 2021, wasn’t one of those days. As violent pro-Donald Trump rioters laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, disrupting congressional certification of … Read more
We began Donald Trump’s presidency debating whether it was fair to call lies lies, even though we knew he was the most prolific political liar of modern times. We end it saying forthrightly that the President of … Read more
If a candidate for high office carries a group of voters by more than 30 points, when do we call it “a loss?” When that same candidate flips five states his party lost in the last election, … Read more
While I was writing this, I read that another newspaper closed in Iowa. It’s likely you never heard of it, but the La Porte City Progress Review was 127 years old. You might have heard of The … Read more
Seven years before the largest explosion since Hiroshima obliterated a large part of the port of Beirut in August, claimed some 200 lives, and left some 300,000 homeless, port authorities who could have prevented the … Read more