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MEDIA
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August 5, 2021
Felicia Sonmez and the Truth About Objectivity
After #MeToo, after the George Floyd protests, after the Trump presidency, what is objectivity? Is it an attainable or even appropriate goal of our coverage? And does striving for it do more harm than good?
MEDIA
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July 30, 2021
The Existential Anxiety of Cable News After Trump
Journalists resented Trump for all the obvious reasons. But his presidency also reversed a long erosion of the industry—and transformed the economics of media careers.
WASHINGTON
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July 27, 2021
This Town After Trump: Nothing to See Here, Folks
Sometimes, Washington clutches its pearls so hard it risks choking itself. After January 6, Republicans just want to move on.
SILICON VALLEY
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July 23, 2021
“What Drives Mark Zuckerberg Is Power”
A conversation with author Sheera Frenkel about the inner workings of the Mark-Sheryl relationship and Facebook's aspirations to modern Rome.
WASHINGTON
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July 19, 2021
“Ready for War”: Biden’s Coming Russia Crisis
The White House seems to have settled on a strategy of doing just enough to make Putin a manageable adversary. It’s containment for the 21st century.
MEDIA
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July 16, 2021
Maggie, Woodward, and the Never-Ending Trump Glut
For years it seemed that every book proposal was about Trump, and almost every book was a best-seller. Is the easy money coming to an end?
MEDIA
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July 8, 2021
The Agony and Ecstasy of the Trump Reporters
Six months since he left office after dispatching a mob to ransack the Capitol, the journalists who covered Trump are still adjusting to a post-Trump reality.
WASHINGTON
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June 13, 2021
Biden Takes On the Putin Singularity
Biden enters his meeting with Putin as little more than a caretaker of American democracy, even as it is becomes less democratic by the day.
WASHINGTON
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June 7, 2021
Obama’s Boy Genius Grows Up
It takes a certain kind of privilege, as Ben Rhodes occasionally acknowledges, to be surprised by the darkness of history.