Investigative Journalism
It has always been part of America's story about itself that it lectures the rest of the world about freedom. For generations, the country presented itself as a champion of democracy and the rule of law, warning others, lecturing others, convinced of its own moral authority. This summer, the world is holding up a mirror instead, demanding that America live up at home to the values it has preached abroad ...
In one image, soldiers raise their muskets into a burning sky. Trump is yelling, or singing, whatever it is, while Revolutionary War troops charge around him as if he, not George Washington, had crossed the Delaware. It's fake, of course, created by the same machine that cranked out 15 saint-like portraits of himself in a single afternoon ...
At Camp David, the presidential retreat in the mountains of Maryland, the president sat before his Cabinet on Friday and told the country who had really attacked its water systems ...
One morning, Vietnam veterans in Sumner County, just north of Nashville, woke up to find that the road that had belonged to their own fallen for more than four decades suddenly carried someone else's name ...
America's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has found himself a new enemy. It's a white stripe painted on asphalt. Earlier this month, he announced that the administration would ...
The order exists in black and white, signed by Salman bin Abdulaziz, now the King of Saudi Arabia. In January 2012, when he was defense minister, he instructed his government to create a sectarian war in northern Yemen where none existed, while making sure Riyadh's name would never be tied to it. The document was marked "Top Secret, Extremely Urgent" ...
A conviction is usually where a story ends. For Jeffrey Epstein, it was where the real story began. In 2008, he pleaded guilty in a Florida court to procuring a minor for prostitution. He was required to register as a sex offender and was officially a man under court supervision. Yet according to an investigation that examined thousands of Justice Department records, ...
At the annual Alliance Defending Freedom summit in San Diego, the speaker was introduced with a single sentence that made everything else almost unnecessary. Before he ever ran for Congress, Speaker Johnson ...
A man was seriously injured Friday evening in Yellowstone National Park after an enraged bull bison hurled him approximately 8 feet through the air. The incident occurred at the Bridge Bay Campground south of Fishing Bridge ...
Criticism of the AfD does not need extra ammunition. Its platform, its rhetoric, and its conduct in state legislatures and parliamentary committees provide more than enough material for sharp, evidence-based reporting. Anyone who resorts to forgery in an attempt to expose a political opponent abandons the ground of truth-seeking and steps onto the very terrain they claim to oppose. For days, an alleged AfD campaign poster has been circulating ...
I hereby submit my application for the next cabinet position that becomes available. I know it's a little unconventional, but after watching this week's developments, I'm confident I exceed the qualifications. I'm available Tuesdays and Thursdays, I don't care which ministry it is, and if I'm ever feeling under the weather, ...