The Ejection of Tucker Carlson Is a Classic “Reverse Ferret” by Rupert Murdoch
Walking up to the edge of what might destroy Fox News, and then doing an about-face, is the business strategy of the network's owner.
Peter Maass
Peter Maass is a senior editor who has written about war, media, and national security for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, and the Washington Post. He reported on both civilians and combatants during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the author of "Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War," an award-winning memoir about the conflict in Bosnia, and he wrote "Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil." He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2012. He has taught writing at Princeton and Columbia universities, and had fellowships at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard and the American Academy in Berlin. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in New York City.
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Dominion Was Never Going to Save Our Democracy From Fox News
With a $787.5 million settlement for its election lies, Fox News has avoided the legal and moral punishment of a court verdict.
In Pentagon Leak, the Problem Is What’s Classified, Not What Gets Out
The government has arrested a suspect but regularly exaggerates the damage from the unauthorized sharing of secret documents.
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Americans Don’t Care About the Iraqi Dead. They Don’t Even Care About Their Own.
The U.S. has a long and disturbing habit of ignoring the violence it commits overseas as well as at home.
Trump’s Last Defense Secretary Has Regrets — but Not About Jan. 6
Chris Miller, a combat veteran, is battling critics who say he failed to send troops when a mob stormed the Capitol.
U.S. Military Vets in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
Amid accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, the founders of the high-profile Mozart Group are waging a personal war back home.
It’s Easy to Write a Memoir About War — but Hard to Write an Anti-War Memoir
Lyle Jeremy Rubin’s book on Afghanistan wrestles with how to write about war without encouraging readers to follow his footsteps into battle.
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Not a Joke, the Pentagon Wants to Name a Warship the USS Fallujah
Why is the U.S. choosing to celebrate its most murderous and merciless battles in Iraq?
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America's 9/11 Wars Created the Foot Soldiers of Far-Right Violence at Home
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan radicalized a generation of veterans, many of whom face trials for sedition and other crimes.
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The Murdoch Family Exposes Its Hypocrisy in Lawsuits Over Fox News
In separate defamation suits in the U.S. and Australia, the owners of Fox News contradict themselves by trying to avoid the punishment they seek to inflict on others.