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Pentagon Papers
February 23, 2018
Magazine
Lee Drutman
Learning to Trust Again
“Objectivity” may never have been the right thing to look for in the media.
December 14, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
The Post
Plays on Nostalgia for Nixon-Era Journalism
Steven Spielberg casts Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as heroes in a slick drama, despite their complicated ties to power.
June 17, 2017
Margot Susca
The War on Leakers Is About to Get Worse
From the Pentagon Papers to Trump: How Washington gained the upper hand against whistleblowers.
June 26, 2013
Michael Kazin
Daniel Ellsberg, the Original Big Leaker
Why a decades-old act of defiance still hasn't been surpassed
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