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America Had a Black President. Then Came the Whitelash.

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If you had to describe the last decade or so of political life in America, the list would likely include the following: The Black Lives Matter movement. The death of George Floyd. America’s first Black president. The rise of the MAGA movement. The election and reelection of Donald Trump. A resurgence of white nationalism. An […]

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A Midnight Phone Call. A Missing Movie. Decades of Questions.

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Here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, we excel at finding things: government documents, contact information, the misdeeds people have tried to hide. It’s serious work that we use for serious tasks—but that gave us an idea. What would happen if we used these skills for things that are less about accountability and more about […]

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Meet the New Pentagon Press Corps

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Last week, dozens of reporters covering the Pentagon staged a historic walkout, handing in their press badges rather than submit to restrictive new media policies promulgated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. This week, there are still news outlets—in a manner of speaking—covering the Pentagon precisely the way Hegseth and his underlings would like to be […]

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Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire

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In June, a sharp-suited Austrian executive from a global surveillance company told a prospective client that he could “go to prison” for organizing the deal they were discussing. But the conversation did not end there. The executive, Guenther Rudolph, was seated at a booth at ISS World in Prague, a secretive trade fair for police […]

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Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza

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In December 2023, nearly three months after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies gathered members of the country’s media. Run out of Tel Aviv University, in a modern building on the campus surrounded by well-kept lawns and native trees, the INSS had a controversial task for the congregated press: Assess […]

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From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US

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One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.” 

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It’s True: The Internet Skews the Reality of Women (and Men) in the Workforce

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In the 1970s, when researchers asked children to draw a scientist, 99 percent of them drew a man. As this experiment was repeated over 50 years, the number of women drawn increased, and within the past decade, more than half of girls will draw a woman when asked what a scientist looks like. Today, Google […]

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Bari Weiss to Head CBS News Within Pro-Trump, Pro-Israel Expanding Media Empire

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Weiss’s appointment by the billionaire Ellison family “is an ideological power play,” says journalist David Klion.

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One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health

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A decade or so ago, to help pay the bills, the artist-activist Michelle Browder started giving human-rights tours of Montgomery, Alabama, the city where her family has deep roots. Riding around in a red-and-white trolley, she would delve into the uncomfortable historical truths that many people she encountered either didn’t know about or preferred to […]

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