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I have formally asked Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of the Federal District Court in Washington, to unseal dockets, filings and judicial opinions related to fights over attorney-client privilege and attorney work product privilege during the investigations that led to Trump’s indictments in the election case and the classified documents case. My request has […]

[cross-posted from the Facebook group True Fort Wayne History, from January 2024] On the portage and “Glorious Gate”– I’d like to pull something out of a friendly conversation I had with Steve Oberlin deep in the comments under his post about the watershed, because maybe it will be interesting to a wider audience. It is […]

[Cross posted from the “True Fort Wayne History” Facebook group] On Swinney Park and whether it was the ritual site for Miami tribe “cannibalistic orgies” or was the “old torture ground” — [ADDED for TLDRers: My tentative conclusion is that this local lore appears to be a myth which traces back to a speech delivered […]

Just after midnight this morning, the New York Times and I filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act seeking disclosure of the volume of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report about the Trump classified documents case. Here is the complaint.

Like many people, I have found zombie Twitter — Elon Musk’s X — to be increasingly unusable for the purposes that originally attracted me to it. Among many other degradations of the former Twitter experience, its algorithmic suppression of posts with news links significantly impedes my ability as a journalist to get a broader audience […]

Back in December 2020, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board completed a report on the National Security Agency’s XKEYSCORE system, whose existence had come to light as part of the Snowden leaks. XKEYSCORE is a software program that N.S.A. analysts use to query the vast repository of stuff that the agency has sucked up, […]

Nora Dannehy, now a Connecticut Supreme Court justice, publicly confirmed at her confirmation testimony that she resigned as the No. 2 in John Durham’s counter-investigation of the Russia investigation in protest of what she saw as unethical politicization of the effort by then-Attorney General Bill Barr. With my NYT colleagues Katie Benner and Adam Goldman, […]

I wrote in the New York Times Magazine (gift link) about my weird connection to the experience of listening to Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” while watching “The Wizard of Oz,” which is sometimes called “The Dark Side of the Rainbow.” I didn’t invent this idea, but an article about it I […]

As Alberto Ibargüen — the head of the Knight Foundation and former publisher of The Miami Herald — retires, I would like to add a public note of personal appreciation to the encomiums. https://www.philanthropy.com/article/knight-foundation-leader-to-retire-leaving-a-powerful-legacy In 1999, when I went to work for The Miami Herald as a cub reporter just out of college and he […]

Judge Beryl Howell, the chief judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, has decided not to unseal filings and rulings ancillary to the material presented to the grand jury investigating Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The New York Times and I […]