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January 1, 2021
Joshua Eaton
How Biden Can Bring Transparency Back to Government
Federal secrecy reached new heights under Trump, but there’s a lot the incoming president can do to let the sunshine back in.
September 21, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Inside the FBI’s File on Soviet Poet-Dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies
July 13, 2020
Magazine
Daniel Immerwahr
The Great Germ War Cover-Up
When Nicholson Baker searched for the truth about biological weapons, he found a fog of redaction.
August 8, 2018
Emily Atkin
Is the U.S. preparing to house migrant kids on contaminated sites?
June 15, 2018
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt’s Passive-Aggressive War on Reporters
The EPA chief is making journalists wait longer than a year for even the simplest document requests.
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