Over the objections of top Army leaders Hegseth strikes 2 Black and 2 female officers from one-star promotion list www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

“For now, there is but one certainty—that the hopes and lives of Iranians don’t matter. Not to Israel, not to the U.S., and certainly not to their own regime, gunning them down in the street.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

“In President Trump’s America, there may be only two genders, but our military adventures can identify however they please.” @philklay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

“Those who drafted the First Amendment believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years.”

How Christian faith and overwhelming force come together in Hegseth's Pentagon. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

“There’s always someone who thinks that if only we were crueler, if only we’d killed another million Vietnamese, then we would have won this war.” - @philklay.bsky.social @gregjaffe.bsky.social on Hegseth then and now via @nytimes.com 🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

How Hegseth Came to See Moral Purpose in War as Weakness www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

Just the dumbest newsroom decision you could make, unless you were trying to undermine your own newsroom

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

“.. They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report. So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.

NEW: Trump reality check — China and Russia aren't threatening Greenland. US and European officials say there's no intelligence on any such dangers. Sen. Mark Warner says the only immediate threat to Greenland is Trump asserting claims to it. Gift link to my story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

though officials are reluctant to say it publicly, they are quietly hoping for a few days of brutal cold.

NEW: Trump pardoned a porta-potty magnate named Arie Eric De Jong III who was sentenced to 5 months in federal prison for illegally disposing of sludge in cities across southern California.

3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

From the latest email to the staff from @washingtonpost.com executive editor Matt Murray:

The reporter in question — Hannah Natanson — has done important, incredibly valuable work. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

Sen. Slotkin: “I’ve studied this kind of political authoritarianism in other countries my entire professional life. I just can’t believe I am talking about it in my own country.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

The latest escalation: Senator Says Prosecutors Are Investigating Her After Video About Illegal Orders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

"She along with hundreds of other recruiters around the country, had been offering something else: protection from the government she served." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Who is joining the National Guard these days and why? I went to Oregon to find out. The answer surprised me: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

New details: The lead pilot was wounded three times in the leg. The Maduro raid was a big success. Like so many of these high stakes missions it nearly went badly wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

AC-130 gunships lasing targets. Griffin missiles captured fractions of a second before impact. RQ-4 Global Hawk drones filming it all. Seeing beyond the redactions in the Pentagon’s attack videos w/ @docubrent @carolrosenberg @cjchivers www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video. nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Andrei Demurenko was the first and only Russian commander ever chosen to study alongside American troops at the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College. Decades later, his war story ended with a mortar blast in Ukraine. nyti.ms/4p9gLbp

He Saw the Best of America and Then (at age 67) Fought for Russia in Ukraine. One of the crazier stories I've worked on. with Paul Sonne. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

Six Democratic Lawmakers Tell Military to Refuse Illegal Orders (I wrote about this video on Tues. I didn't think we'd still be talking about it on Thurs.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

Wrote about Todd Snider, East Nashville and how the more things change, the more they change. www.dontrocktheinbox.com/something-go...

“you ever go to one of those ‘mainstream’ shows,” he emailed me in 2013, when I was asking him some questions about his work on the Alabama tribute project, High Cotton. “they bring joy to a lot of people with songs. if there’s a wrong way to do that then god help us all.”

👀⚖️‼️ #wrongly #deported

"Sánchez’s youngest son, a third grader, could not accept for days that his father was gone. He kept asking adults if his father could have survived the explosion, noting he might still be at sea." apnews.com/article/trum...

Nearly every new defense secretary since the end of the Cold War has at some point declared war on the Pentagon’s sclerotic bureaucracy. And then came Pete Hegseth: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

"The utter unpredictability of Mr. Hegseth’s moves, as described in interviews w/ 20 current and former military officials, has created an atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust that has forced senior officers to take sides and, at times, pitted them against one another." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

This is one of my favorite feature stories of the year so far. Every sentence is great. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

A really interesting essay on the meaning of patriotism in our messy era. George Packer writes more compellingly about our democracy and the threats to it than yone out there right now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

George C. Wilson was one of the greats to cover the military and the Pentagon. He tromped through the mud with soldiers in Vietnam and played a key role in bringing the Pentagon papers to light. A snapshot of what we're losing with these new press rules. wapo.st/4nrLjUl

On a day when we're all turning in our press passes, here is one of my favorite stories from my days covering the Pentagon. "More than 500 reporters cover the Pentagon. One is Raymond Cromley, sole representative of Cromley News Service." www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

"The public has a right to know how the government and the military are operating."

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones. Terrific photos and video from Meridith Kohut. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

The Army’s Race to Catch Up in a World of Deadly Drones. The U.S. military had believed that drones would keep troops out of harm's way. Instead they are making war deadlier for everyone. My story on how the Army is reckoning with this new kind of war. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

This program rescued Army recruiting. My story from a really inspiring week at Ft. Jackson, S.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

My story on the program the fascinating program that saved Army recruiting and the trainees it is helping become soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Hegseth credits a "Trump Bump, but this program rescued Army recruiting. My story from Ft. Jackson, S.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests, according to officials with knowledge of the data. We detail how that happened: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

The best posture for the American military in febrile political times is inertness. They cannot save us …and we should neither want nor expect them to.” via @kschake.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

After 9/11, U.S. Special Forces were hailed as national heroes. Some crossed legal and moral lines. Mathew Golsteyn became the subject of national controversy after he was accused of killing a civilian he claims was a Taliban bomb maker. He shared his story for the first time. nyti.ms/4nWsvwY

Senior officers, entrusted to manage complex military operations, were summoned from around the world. They got a lecture on fitness and grooming standards. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...