Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition

Imagine you’re hiking through the woods near a border. Suddenly, you hear a mechanical buzzing, like a gigantic bee. Two quadcopters have spotted you and swoop in for a closer look. Antennae on both drones and on a nearby autonomous ground vehicle pick up the radio frequencies coming from the cell phone in your pocket. They send the signals to a central server, which triangulates your exact location and feeds it back to the drones. The robots close in.

Dozens of people turned out in support for Scott Warren at the federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, last week. But as friends and family filled the benches, there was a noteworthy absence: A team of Warren’s fellowhumanitarian aid volunteers were out in the field.

Finding oneself in the crosshairs of a military drone is, for most people, not the most comforting situation. Yet at an air show last fall, tens of thousands of people had a different reaction. A military drone took off from a runway, and moments later it began transmitting its view to a giant screen on stage. The video from the drone was clear enough to pick out your own face among the crowd. It was exactly what the drone’s pilot, seated in a trailer not far from the stage, was seeing.

Viral rumors that Joe Biden abused his power as vice president to protect his son’s business interests in Ukraine in 2016, which spread last week from the pro-Trump media ecosystem to The New York Times, are “absolute nonsense,” according to Ukraine’s leading anti-corruption activist.

An immigrant rights advocate on the U.S.-Mexico border was arrested and accused of “illegalalien smuggling” as she accompanied an asylum-seeker to a port of entry in southern Arizona. Ana Adlerstein, a volunteerat Casa del Migrantes, a migrant shelter in the Mexican town of Sonoyta, said U.S.

A market street in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the former Syrian capital of the Islamic State (ISIS) group, on April 14, 2019. Photo: Delil Souleiman/AFP/Getty Images Last Thursday, the Department of Defense released a report to Congress laying out its latest data for civilian casualties caused by U.S. military operations. For a Syrian American like me, this is not a mere list of faceless statistics but an opportunity for the U.S.

A mainstream, Democratic Party-aligned foreign policy think tank is knocking Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for voting against new sanctions on Iran in 2017 — though the think tank itself and many members of its board oppose new Iran sanctions. Sanders has been an outspoken supporter of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and said at the time that he voted against the measure in order to preserve the deal. Sanctions, he argued, would have jeopardized the landmark agreement.

In a campaign speech on Sunday at the Swine Arena in Osage, Iowa, Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined an agricultural policy rooted in breaking the power of vertically integrated farm monopolies.

Wendy Abrams hasused her wealth to help protect theenvironment and public health. She’s the founder of a public art exhibit meant to raise awareness on climate change, and she serves on the boards ofNRDC Action FundandtheWaterkeeper Alliance, and has been onthe Environmental Defense Fund’s National Council.

Not long after Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were sworn into Congress, they began hearing from their new colleagues that one member of the House Democratic caucus, Josh Gottheimer, had particularly strong views about each of them. Gottheimer, a second-termrepresentativefrom New Jersey, has deep ties to the lobbies for Saudi Arabia and Israel, while Tlaib and Omar are often critical of both Mideast governments.

Former Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox speaks with reporters at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 21, 1973, the morning after President Richard Nixon fired him during what is known as the Saturday Night Massacre.

Over the past decade, far-right nationalist movements have swept into power across the world, from the United States to India, from Brazil to Europe. Every movement needs its texts. Today, the nationalists seem to have found one: “The Virtue of Nationalism,” by the conservative Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony. Among other plaudits, the book was recently awarded “Conservative Book of the Year” by an influential conservative campus organization.

In his bid to become the Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to reject contributions from lobbyists and corporate PACs. But he has quietly taken in more than $30,000 in donations from corporate interests through a political action committee that he created in 2017. Biden founded American Possibilities in 2017 to support Democrats in the midterm elections.

In a fluorescent-lit ballroom atop Baltimore’s downtown convention center, Lt. Gen.John F. Sattler stepped off the stage and began to pace. He’d had 14 cups of coffee, he boomed, along with a Hershey’s bar with almonds. He was not about to stay still. It was a snowy morning in late February. Sattler,a motivational speaker and retired Marine whoonce directedstrategic planningfor the U.S.

The Bernie Sanders campaign kicked off its massive volunteerprogram this weekend by holding nearly 5,000 house parties across the country and unveiling a new organizing app that gives campaign supporters a way to share political information on friends, family, and neighbors.