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Whistleblowers and Journalists

Press Freedom After Collateral Murder

The release made newsrooms braver and more technical, and it made the legal ground under them far less stable. Both things happened at once.

4 min readMar 2026
The Incident

Sajad and Doaha: The Children in the Van

A boy of about ten and a girl of about five were in the front seat when the van was fired on. Both survived. Their father did not.

4 min readMar 2026
The 2026 Iran War

The 2026 Iran War: What Happened

The war opened on a Saturday morning in late February with strikes across Iran. Within two hours it had produced the atrocity it is now bes…

3 min readMar 2026
Whistleblowers and Journalists

Reuters and the Three-Year Fight for the Footage

A global news agency lost two staff, asked to see the recording of how they died, and spent almost three years being told no. That refusal …

4 min readMar 2026
The Incident

Saleh Matasher Tomal: The Man Who Stopped

He was driving his two children across the district when he saw a wounded man in the road. He stopped. It is the simplest and hardest fact …

4 min readMar 2026
The 2026 Iran War

Double-Tap Strikes and the People Who Come to Help

A second strike, minutes after the first, on the place people gathered to pull others out. Why the pattern recurs, what the law says, and w…

4 min readMar 2026
Whistleblowers and Journalists

The Commutation and Release of Chelsea Manning

Three days before leaving office, President Obama cut almost all of a thirty-five-year sentence. What a commutation is, what it is not, and…

4 min readMar 2026
The Incident

Bravo Company, 2-16 Infantry: The Soldiers on the Ground

The infantry company working the district that summer, the war it was having, and why its soldiers reached the van within minutes of it bei…

4 min readMar 2026
The 2026 Iran War

Counting the Dead at Minab

156 killed, 120 of them children. How that figure was arrived at, why the estimates of who was in the building differ, and what took seven …

3 min readMar 2026
Ethics and the Media

How Reuters and Other Newsrooms Reacted

Reuters had been asking for this recording for three years and learned what it showed from someone else's press conference. Other newsrooms…

4 min readMar 2026