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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 23, 2026
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Commentary: The White House attacks press freedom (opens the original)
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As someone who has spent about a half-century as a journalist, I understand why politicians might find us annoying. Government is all about protecting people and delivering solutions to society’s most complex problems, and those solutions are often controversial. Having a swarm of reporters buzzing around, asking why you’re doing what you’re doing and noticing your shortcomings, can seem unfair. A politician is tempted to say to a reporter, “If you’re so smart, how come you’re not the one with t
Commentary: Why we’re still talking about the president’s jet swap (opens the original)
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A lot has been said lately about the deception involving Air Force One - you know, the scheme to get President Trump out of Turkey safely by briefly concealing him in a catering truck and then transferring him to an anonymous Air Force jet. As a longtime journalist, I of course think that lying to the media is wrong; I want public officials to be truthful, at a minimum. But as a patriotic American, I want our president to be protected from harm. Those two objectives - presidential candor and pre
Commentary: How the World Cup gave me a grammar lesson (opens the original)
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As one of those Americans who hasn’t paid much attention to soccer, I was presented with some opportunities for growth during the recent 39 days of World Cup competition - like, for example, this sentence from an analysis of the final game: “Spain,” it said, “were the better team throughout.” There it is, one of the great mysteries of football, as the rest of the world has it: Spain were. In my mind, Spain was. Or is. But most certainly if it is “was,” it wasn’t “were.”What’s with the plural wor
What’s at stake when reporters are subpoenaed (opens the original)
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Most of us will never know the anxiety that surely arises when an FBI agentknocks on your door with a subpoena – that is, demanding that you appear before a grand jury investigating what you have done, fully lawfully, at work.Many of us might think that the FBI surely wouldn’t do that if there weren’t some valid reason to think we did something wrong. But when the FBI came knocking last week for five New York Times reporters, it wasn’t because those journalists had done anything unlawful. Yet th
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