Update: Hegseth pulled nine officers off the Navy one-star list. The only three female and two of the three black male officers on the 22-person list.

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List. The net result: a slate of 22 new one-star admiral nominees that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead. Of special note: The list has no women. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

The Post lost > 250,000 subscribers after Bezos screwed up the editorial page, and an additional 60,000 subs after he fired around half the staff. Doesn’t seem like profit is his actual motive here.

Adm. Cooper’s testimony suggested that he believed that the U.S. military’s record since Feb. 28 school strike had been near perfect. “Ridiculous,” said human rights group that investigates civilian casualties. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

Powerful personal essay meets fascinating science reporting in this exploration of what dementia takes from us. @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's favorite this week by @ellenbarry.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/s...

“My mind shot back a decade, to that day we had marched into Vietnam, swaggering, confident and full of idealism. We had believed we were there for a high moral purpose. But somehow our idealism was lost, our morals corrupted and the purpose forgotten.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

How would soldiers from places like Florida, Texas and Georgia fight and persevere in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees? (We truly froze for this one. Ask me about my big toe!) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

The U.S. Army’s ‘Big Experiment’ in the Arctic Cold How would soldiers from places like Florida, Texas and Georgia fight and persevere in temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees? (We truly froze for this one. Ask me about my big toe) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

The scene between Hegseth and Moulton at this week's HASC hearing was interesting. A bit of fun. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/u...

Hegseth confronts his Democratic doppelgänger on Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/u...

Hegseth's and Moulton's parallel lives collide over Iran War. Both graduated from Ivy League colleges and volunteered to fight in Iraq. Both pushed for more troops in Iraq in 2006. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/u...

Hegseth cites FALSE stat to defend his military purge, saying that Obama fired 197 generals. The Pentagon previously admitted to me that the figure is bogus, a product of right-wing fever swamps. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

Hegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/u...

“The chairman is not just a military adviser,” said retired Rear Adm. John F. Kirby. “He’s the personification of the U.S. military, the human representative of everyone who wears the uniform and their families.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Trump’s Threats of War Crimes Intensify Pressure on General Caine. My latest with countdown clock ticking... www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

“Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor!?” — Sen. Blutarski

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