Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow.
Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop.
Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist.
New podcast: Collateral Damage
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Radley Balko
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You shouldn't be able to lead an IPO and a pogrom in the same week.
FIFA's bribing Trump, but prohibiting Haiti from celebrating its independence on its jerseys.
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake:
A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The clash between FIFA and Haiti’s official outfitter, Saeta, marks the second time in recent months that uniforms worn by Haitian athletes at an international competition have come under scrutiny.
EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...
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Radley Balko
Emily Nussbaum
The reward for assaulting democracy and condemning millions of the most vulnerable people on earth to death should not be a trillion dollars.
If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people?
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This entire, miserable political party is so hyper-fixated on attacking trans people that even when they face a straight, white male like James Talarico, they don't know how to do anything except to pretend he's transgender
She's straightforwardly saying schools’ federal funds are at risk unless they reduce their Black student population to something Trump is more comfortable with
By design, the safest way for schools to avoid suspicion is to not admit Black students at all
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Brandon Friedman
The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.
A terrific mural of ANTHONY BOURDAIN — Coin Street, London
I'm sorry but getting Vance to lead an emergency meeting in the Situation Room about the very Epstein conspiracy theories he stoked is an incredible bit www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...
Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon: "What CUNY is doing is disproportionately favoring African American men and students in general, and this is illegal. They could lose funds."
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Guess this explains why DOJ hasn’t been able to find any Bondi emails in response to FPF’s FOIA requests and suits…
Even though personal emails are still supposed to be searched (and forwarded to govt accounts in 20 days)
Aaron Rupar
Michael Warburton
Nitish Pahwa
This kind of post is so gross, it makes me truly hate Texas politics.
Lauren Harper
A nugget buried in the big & impressive NYT piece on how the Trump White House had an internal freak-out over the Epstein case....If Bondi didn't use DOJ email, what did she use? I recall a time when the right (and the NYT) went ballistic over a Cabinet official's use of non-government email.
