Being Rupert Murdoch: How the Founder of Fox News Spreads His Brand of Destruction

The Intercept
April 25, 2019

RUPERT MURDOCH HOLDS a knife in his hand. He sits in a posh restaurant, praising the virtues of doing as he pleases.
“I like moving around, never in one place long enough,” he says, a napkin tucked into his collar to catch the drippings from a nearly raw steak he ...  (Read more)

How Lachlan Murdoch Went From Studying Philosophy to Exploiting White Nationalism at Fox News

The Intercept
March 30, 2019

In 1994, a philosophy student at Princeton University submitted a senior thesis that began with a famous passage from Lord Byron, the romantic poet. The passage reflected the student’s apparent uncertainty about who he was and what he would become after college.

Between ...  (Read more)

Fox News Is Poisoning America. Rupert Murdoch and His Heirs Should Be Shunned.

The Intercept
November 4, 2018

IN THE EARLY 1990s, some of the smartest people resisting Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic worked out of a chaotic office in the center of Belgrade. The office was filled with a haze of cigarette smoke, ringing phones answered with shouts, off-kilter desks scarred ...  (Read more)

Max Boot Is Very Sorry for Backing the GOP and the Iraq Invasion. Why Is He Being Praised for This?

The Intercept
October 13, 2018

THERE IS AN unforgettable passage in Graham Greene’s classic “The Quiet American” in which the title character, a CIA agent named Alden Pyle, admits that Vietnam is much more complicated than he’d imagined. “I had not realized how tribal politics was and how ...  (Read more)

Dear Senators: Opposition to Brett Kavanaugh Includes Churches, Professors — Even His Own Friends

The Intercept
October 5, 2018

THE OPPOSITION TO Brett Kavanaugh that has gotten the most attention is, naturally, the Senate Democrats who are voting against his Supreme Court nomination, and members of the #MeToo movement who believe Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez when they say Kavanaugh ...  (Read more)

Why Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Friends Try to Protect His Reputation — and Theirs

The Intercept
October 4, 2018
(Co-written with Alice Speri)

THERE IS AN underappreciated reason that explains why, apart from Christine Blasey Ford’s remarkable testimony about her summer of 1982 and what a drunken 17-year-old Brett Kavanaugh did to her, almost nothing has been heard about his after-hours ...  (Read more)

The Internet Archive Publishes Brett Kavanaugh’s 1983 Yearbook, a Key Document in Nomination Battle

The Intercept
October 3, 2018
(Co-written with Alice Speri)

AS SCRUTINY OF Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s high school years intensifies amid accusations of sexual assault, much has been written about a series of allusive references to alcohol and girls that Kavanaugh and his classmates made ...  (Read more)

Is Brett Kavanaugh’s High School Ditching Him? More Than 100 Alumni Sign Petition Against Him

The Intercept
October 3, 2018

A PETITION THAT was started just a few days ago by two alumni of Brett Kavanaugh’s high school to encourage other graduates to come forward with information about any sexual assaults he committed there has picked up 96 signatures, the petition organizers announced late ...  (Read more)

“Our Silence Will Serve No One” — Alumni of Brett Kavanaugh’s School Urge Sharing of Information

The Intercept
September 29, 2018
(Co-written with Liliana Segura)

A GROUP OF alumni from Brett Kavanaugh’s high school is calling on fellow graduates to come forward if they have information about any sexual assaults the Supreme Court nominee committed, stating in a new petition, “Please do not remain ...  (Read more)

Here Are 5 Questions the FBI Should Ask Mark Judge About Brett Kavanaugh

The Intercept
September 29, 2018
(Co-written with Akela Lacy)

A LAWYER FOR Mark Judge has said that Judge will talk with agents from the FBI, which is reopening a background check of Brett Kavanaugh — so the question of the moment is, what information can the FBI get out of him?

Judge is in a position ...  (Read more)