The Intercept
April 9, 2018
WAR MONUMENTS ARE vexing. The forever war that began on 9/11 has caused enough bloodshed to inspire an entirely new generation of memorials. Some have already been built or ...
Category: Intercept
How Iona Craig Won a Polk Award for Investigating a Botched SEAL Team Raid in Yemen
The Intercept
February 24, 2018
A LITTLE MORE than a year ago, on January 29, 2017, Iona Craig was at the tail end of a monthlong reporting trip to Yemen. On that day, special operators from the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team 6 launched a surprise raid in a remote part of Yemen, apparently trying to capture ...
Trump’s Military Parade Is Ridiculous — but He’s Not the First Politician to Use Soldiers as Props
The Intercept
February 7, 2018
Oh no, there he goes again.
That’s the reaction, generally speaking, to the news that Donald Trump wants the Pentagon to arrange a glitzy military parade. Trump is breaking yet another piece of china in the shop of American democracy, glamorizing the armed forces in the ...
It’s Time to Wage War Against War Movies That Glorify Outdated Models of Masculinity
The Intercept
January 27, 2018
The Hollywood Reporter published a surprising story earlier this month about film studios turning away from movies about sex. A biopic about Hugh Hefner is stalled, gone for the moment is a James Franco film about a 15-year-old Russian prostitute, and a remake of “A ...
Enough About Steve Bannon. Rupert Murdoch’s Influence on Donald Trump Is More Dangerous
The Intercept
January 6, 2018
For quite a while, there has been a bull market in stories about Steve Bannon calling the shots in the incorrigible tangle of neurons that passes for Donald Trump’s brain. Michael Wolff’s new book about the dysfunctional White House, “Fire and Fury,” adds a marvelous ...
Interrogation of Reality Winner Reveals Deceptive Tactics of “Exceedingly Friendly” FBI Agents
The Intercept
Dec. 28, 2017
In late January, George Papadopoulos did what a lot of Americans do when FBI agents ask for a few minutes of their time — he agreed to talk. It’s a decision he likely regrets, because in October the former adviser to President Donald Trump’s election campaign pleaded ...
Ratko Mladic Was Convicted of Seige Warfare in Bosnia. Will U.S.-Backed Siege in Yemen Face Justice?
The Intercept
Nov. 22, 2017
Ratko Mladic got what he deserved, which is the beginning of the story.
Forget, for a moment, the legal jargon that defines what are known as crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Think, instead, of this simpler thing: siege warfare. In plain language, that’s ...
North Korea Is the Most Predictable Regime on Earth. The Real Threat Is the Erratic U.S. Government.
The Intercept
September 26, 2017
The nuclear shouting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un often seems like a maddening version of whack-a-crazy-mole, in which an unhinged comment by one of them is hastily followed by a lunatic retort from the other. Trump calls Kim “rocket ...
Bannon Said He Learned to Fear Muslims When He Visited Pakistan. But He Was Probably in Hong Kong.
The Intercept
August 11, 2017
IF YOU ASK Steve Bannon how he got the idea that Muslims in the Middle East are a civilizational threat to America, he will say that his eyes were first opened when he served on a Navy destroyer in the Arabian Sea. At least that’s what he told the journalist Joshua ...
How Donald Trump Could Destroy the Global Fight Against Kleptocracy
The Intercept
June 30, 2017
An incredible event is taking place in Paris. The playboy son of a wealthy dictator is on trial for stealing more than $100 million from his oil-rich and poverty-plagued homeland.
Authorities in Europe have already seized a glitzy assortment of the allegedly ill-gotten possessions ...