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January 20, 2023
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We Still Don’t Know Who Leaked Dobbs. Good!
Why we should root against leak investigations.
June 11, 2021
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Trump’s Justice Department Was Even More Malicious Than We Thought
The former president and his enablers abused their power to spy on lawmakers. What will Congress do about it?
January 25, 2019
Elite Soccer’s Culture of Graft
Cristiano Ronaldo's slap on the wrist for Spanish tax fraud belies the scale of the problem.
June 17, 2017
The War on Leakers Is About to Get Worse
From the Pentagon Papers to Trump: How Washington gained the upper hand against whistleblowers.
February 15, 2017
Donald Trump Is on the Ropes
A barrage of damning leaks is making the president look weaker every day.
October 31, 2013
The Media's Arrogant Defense of Leaks
August 21, 2013
A Stone-Faced Bradley Manning Gets 35 Years
August 18, 2013
There's a Perfectly Good NSA Defense that the Obama Administration Isn't Making
July 23, 2013
Obama Should Just Pardon Bradley Manning
It's an elegant way out of the leak controversies
June 20, 2013
Sources of Discomfort
National security reporting in the age of leak hunts
May 16, 2013
It's the Technocratic Arrogance, Stupid
Obama isn't Bush or Nixon. He's in hot water for behaving too much like Woodrow Wilson.
May 15, 2013
Is the 'Chilling Effect' Real?
National-security reporters on the impact of federal scrutiny

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