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- Thomas Mackintosh & Merlyn Thomas. 2025. Trump moves to close down Voice of America. March 17, BBC.com.
- Ben Casselman and Colby Smith. 2025. Commerce secretary’s comments raise fears of interference in federal data. March 5, New York Times. (pdf)
- Ben Casselman, Alan Rappeport and Lydia DePillis. 2025. Trump’s pick to lead labor data agency adds to fears of political interference. August 12, New York Times.
- Ben Casselman. 2025. Trump fired America’s economic data collector. History shows the perils. August 4, New York Times.
- Benjamin Mullin. 2025. Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down. August 1, New York Times.
- Drew Harwell and Joyce Sohyum Lee. 2025. We checked DHS’s videos of chaos and protests. Here’s what they leave out. October 29, Washington Post.
- Graham Bowley, Jennifer Schuessler and Robin Pogrebin. 2025. Trump announces comprehensive review of Smithsonian exhibitions. August 12, New York Times.
- James Gertzenzang. 2025. I’ve seen presidents clash with the press. This is different. February 22, New York Times. (pdf)
- Michael Bender. 2025. Trump Administration announces new civics effort with MAGA-aligned groups. September 17, New York Times.
- Kevin Breuninger. 2025. White House blasts ‘hostile’ Amazon over tariff report; Company downplays change. April 29, CNBC.com.
- Oliver Milman. 2025. ‘Blatant misinformation:’ Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’. July 5, The Guardian.
- Andrew Trunsky. 2025. She’s young, Trump-friendly, and has a White House Press pass. April 11, New York Times. (pdf)
- Thomas Macintosh and Merlyn Thomas. 2025. Trump dismantles Voice of America with executive order. March 16, BBC.
- Alec MacGillis. 2025. Trump halts data collection on drug use, maternal mortality, climate change, and more. April 18, ProPublica.
- Ken Bensinger and Erik Wimple. 2025. New Pentagon press crew is all in on Trump. November 4, New York Times.
- Maria Dunbar. 2025. Multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented,’ says PEN America. February 7, The Guardian.
- Sam Gustin. 2025. How Trump plans to manipulate US economic data to gaslight the public. March 10, The Nation.
- Ben Casselman. 2025. Trump fired America’s economic data collector. History shows the perils. August 3, New York Times.
- Carolyn Y. Johnson, Scott Dance and Joel Achenbach. 2025. Here are the words putting science in the crosshairs of Trump’s orders. February 4, Washington Post. (the words: Advocacy, Antiracist, Barrier, Biases, Cultural relevance, Disability, Diverse backgrounds, Diversity, Ethnicity, Excluded, Exclusion, Equity, Female, Gender, Hate speech, Historically, Implicit bias, Inclusion, Inclusive, Inequities, Institutional, Intersectional, Male dominated, Marginalized, Minority, Multicultural, Oppression, Polarization, Racially, Segregation, Socioeconomic, Systemic, Trauma, Underrepresented, Underserved, Victims, Women)
- Graham Bowley, Jennifer Schuessler, and Robin Pogrebin. 2025. White House announces comprehensive review of Smithsonian exhibitions. August 12, New York Times.
- Natalie Sherman. 2025. Trump’s pick to lead economic data agency floats ending monthly jobs report. August 12, BBC.
- Ben Casselman, Alan Rappeport, and Lydia DePillis. 2025. Trump’s pick to lead labor data agency adds to fears of political interference. August 12, New York Times.
- Luciana Lopez. 2025. What would happen if America started faking its economic data? Here’s what happened when other countries did it. August 18, CNN.
- Charlie Savage, Julian E. Barnes and Maggie Haberman. 2025. Official pushed to rewrite intelligence so ‘it could not be used against Trump.’ March 20, New York Times. (pdf)
- Abbie VanSickle. 2025. Trump Administration asks Supreme Court to shield DOGE from releasing records. March 21, New York Times. (pdf)
- Sara Fisher and Christine Wang. 2025. Trump targets the media in his first 100 days. April 29, Axios.
- Richard Luscombe. 2025. MAGA media mob: Meet the new rightwing media faces in the White House briefing room. May 5, BBC.
- Michael Grynbaum. 2025. White House moves to pick the pool reporters who cover Trump. February 25, New York Times. (pdf)
- Andrew Duehren. 2025. The size of the tax cut. March 21, New York Times. (pdf)
- PBS. 2025. Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR. May 2, PBS.org.
- Julian Barnes and Eric Schmitt. 2025. Pentagon fires the defense intelligence agency chief. August 22, New York Times.
- Greg Sergeant and Paul Waldman. 2023. Ron DeSantis’s book ban mania targets Jodi Picoult–and she hits back. Mar 10, Washington Post.
- Elizabeth Harris and Alexandra Alter. 2022. A fast-growing network of conservative groups is fueling a surge in book bans. Dec 12, New York Times.
- PBS Newshour. 2025. A look at what’s behind efforts to reshape how American history is taught. July, PBS.
- Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman. 2020. Used to meeting challenges with bluster and force, Trump confronts a crisis unlike any before. March 21, New York Times.
- Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng. 2020. Team Trump pushes CDC to dial down COVID death counts. May 13, Daily Beast.
- Helen Sullivan. 2020. Donald Trump attacks Fox News: ‘They forgot the golden goose.’ Nov 12, The Guardian.
- Gregory Wallace. 2018. National Park Service edited inauguration photos after Trump, Spicer calls. Sept 7, CNN.
- Jonathan Allen, Phil McCausland and Cyrus Farivar. 2020. Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities. May 11, NBCNews.com.
- New York Times. 2020. Tracking viral misinformation about the 2020 elections. New York Times.
- Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Trump officials are said to press spies to link virus and Wuhan labs. Apr 30, New York Times.
- Quint Forgey. 2020. Strategic national stockpile figures altered online after Kushner’s remarks. Apr 3, Politico.com.
- Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond and Betsy Klein. 2020. Director of key federal vaccine agency says his departure was retaliation. Apr 22, CNN.com.
- Alex Hern. 2020. Trump’s vote fraud claims go viral despite social media curbs. Nov 10, The Guardian.
- Linda Qiu. 2020. Analyzing the patterns in Trump’s falsehoods about the coronavirus. Mar 27, New York Times.
- Sheila Kaplan. 2018. Congress quashed research into gun violence. Since then, 600,000 people have been shot. Mar 12, New York Times.
- New York Times Editorial Board. 2018. The war on truth spreads. Dec 9, New York Times.
- Veronica Stacqualursi. 2020. Washington Post: National Archives admits to altering 2017 photo of Women’s March. Jan 18, cnn.com.
- Margaret Talev. 2019. Trump cancels US report on civilian deaths in drone strikes. March 6, Bloomberg.
- Ali Watkins. 2015. The other torture report: The secret CIA document that could unravel the case for torture. Jan 23, Huffington Post.
- Susan Glasser. 2019. The ‘enemies of the people’ have a few questions for the president. March 8, New Yorker Magazine.
- Andrew Marantz. 2017. Is Trump trolling the White House Press Corps? March 13, New Yorker Magazine.
- Juliet Eilperin. 2017. Under Trump, inconvenient data is being sidelined. May 14, Washington Post.
- Jane Mayer. 2019. The making of the Fox News White House. March 11, New Yorker Magazine.
- Susan B. Glasser. 2018. ‘Rigged witch hunt,’ meet Trump’s ‘red wave.’ Aug 17, New Yorker Magazine.
- Asawin Suebsaeng. 2019. Trump is forcing interns to sign NDAs and threatening them with financial ruin. Feb 19, Daily Beast.
- Julie Hirschfield Davis and Somini Sengupta. 2017. Trump Administration rejects study showing positive impact of refugees. Sept 18, New York Times.
- Scott Horton. 2010. Tear down this myth: Six questions for Will Bunch. Feb 19, Harper’s.
- Anton Troianovsky. 2018. A former Russian troll speaks: ‘It was like being in Orwell’s world.’ Feb 18, Washington Post. Accessed: http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/48533-a-former-russian-troll-speaks-it-was-like-being-in-orwells-world.
- Chris Mooney and Juliet Eilperin. 2017. EPA website removes climate science from public view after two decades. Apr 29, Washington Post.
- Aaron Blake. 2017. The White House’s odd statement about giving U.S. intelligence to Putin. Dec 18, Washington Post.
- Washington Post. 2017. The Fact Checker’s tally of Trump’s false claims since becoming president. June 5, Washington Post.
- Andrew Higgins. 2017. Trump embraces ‘enemy of the people,’ a phrase with a fraught history. Feb 26, NY Times.
- Dan Froomkin. 2014. White House getting cold feet over exposing CIA’s torture secrets. Dec 5, The Intercept.
- Ben Casselman. 2017. The White House takes its attacks on jobs data to a new (and dangerous) level. Mar 13, Fivethirtyeight.com.
- Ben Casselman, Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Maggie Koerth-Baker. 2017. Is Trump already messing with government data? Feb 24, Fivethirtyeight.com.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2015. NYT trumpets US restraint against ISIS, ignores hundreds of civilian deaths. May 26, The Intercept.
- Jean Seaton, Tim Crook and DJ Taylor. 2017. Welcome to dystopia: George Orwell experts on Donald Trump. Jan 25, The Guardian.
- Danielle Kurtzleben. 2017. With ‘fake news,’ Trump moves from alternative facts to alternative language. Feb 17, npr.org.
- Samuel Earle. 2016. Unreality politics. Dec 7, Open Democracy.
- Campbell Robertson and Mitch Smith. 2017. ‘What’s the big deal?‘ ask Trump voters on Russian hacking report. Jan 7, New York Times.
- Sam Kleiner. 2014. The Obama Administration just got busted over excessive secrecy–again. Apr 23, New Republic.
- Rhett Jones. 2017. Trump’s bullshit executive orders become even more bullshit on White House website. Feb 14, Gizmodo.
- Gabriella Coleman. 2011. Anonymous: From the Lulz to collective action. Apr 6, The New Everyday.
- Justin Doolittle. 2014. The New York Times calls torture ‘torture’ when the perp is an official enemy. Jan 30, Truthout.
- Dennis Halliday. 2013. WHO refuses to publish report on cancers and birth defects in Iraq caused by depleted uranium ammunition. Sept 13, Global Research.
- Glenn Greenwald. 2012. “Militants”: Media propaganda. May 28, Salon.com.
- Lou Dubose. 2012. Occupy: The movie. Feb 14, Washington Spectator.
- Husna Haq. 2013. Obama Administration targets Fox News reporter in ‘chilling’ echo of AP probe. May 20, Christian Science Monitor.
- Chris Woods. 2011. US claims of ‘no civilian deaths’ are untrue. July 28, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
- David Barstow. 2008. The generals’ revolt: How the Pentagon spread its message (interactive version). Apr 20, NY Times.
- Liliana Segura. 2008. Private military contractors writing the news? The Pentagon’s propaganda at its worst. Oct 17, Alternet.
- Sarah Ellison. 2011. The man who spilled the secrets. February, Vanity Fair.
- Bill Keller. 2011. Dealing with Assange and the WikiLeaks secrets. January, New York Magazine.
- Phillip Dorling. 2012. Revealed: US plans to charge Assange. Feb 29, Sidney Morning Herald.
- Kevin Bogardus and Rebecca Brown. 2008. Cheney gets last laugh. June 19, The Hill.
- David Barstow. 2008. Behind TV analysts, Pentagon’s hidden hand. Apr 20, New York Times.
- Charles Homans. 2008. Last secrets of the Bush Administration. Dec 3, Washington Monthly.
- Michelle Chen. 2008. Cheney’s office declares exemption from secrecy oversight. Jun 7, TheNewStandard.
- Bill Moyers. 2008. Is the fourth estate a fifth column? Jul 11, In These Times.
- James Bamford. 2008. The shadow factory. Oct 14, Democracy Now!
- Warren Strobel. 2008. Exhaustive review finds no link between Saddam and al Qaeda. McClatchy Newspapers, Mar 10.
- Nick Davies. 2008. How the spooks took over the news. The Independent, Feb 11.
- Associated Press. 2007. Iraq corruption whistleblowers face penalties. Aug. 24. MSNBC.com.
- William Fisher. 2007. Executive privilege used to expand government secrecy. Jul 31, Truthout.
- Dan Eggan. 2006. White House trains efforts on media leaks. March 5, Washington Post.
- Stephen C. Webster. 2012. ‘Anonymous’ intercepts secret law enforcement hacking probe. Feb 3, Raw Story.
- Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen. 2008. White House said it routinely overwrote email tapes from 2001-2003. Jan 17, Washington Post.
- Jane Mayer. 2011. The secret sharer. May 23, New Yorker Magazine.
- Media Lens. Media ignore credible poll revealing 1.2 million violent deaths in Iraq. Sept 18, Media Lens.
- David Gritten. 2006. Iraqi civilian deaths shrouded in secrecy. Mar 22, BBC News.
- Mark Silva. 2006. Bush team imposes thick veil of secrecy. April 30, Chicago Tribune.
- Richard Willing. 2006. Tax dollars fund study on restricting public data. USA Today, July 5.
- Gina Holland. 2006. Supreme Court restricts whistleblower lawsuits. Associated Press, April 10, USA Today.
- Nancy Chandross. 2007. Woodruff: turning personal injury into public inquiry. ABC News, Feb 26. (more context here).
- Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. 2003. How Bush’s campaign for war was a victory for spin. San Francisco Chronicle, July 27.
- Media Lens. 2005. Burying the Lancet (part 1; part 2). Sept 5-6, Media Lens.
- Christopher Lee. 2005. Prepackaged news gets GAO rebuke. Washington Post, Feb. 21.
- Amanda Griscom Little. 2004. Just Put Your Lips Together: Bush admin tries to take the whistle away from potential blowers at the EPA. The Daily Grist, Oct 8.
- Henry Waxman. 2006. Bush Administration Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Advertising and Public Relations Contracts Since 2003, GAO Finds Feb 13, Common Dreams.
- Christopher H. Schmitt and Edward T. Pound. 2003. Scathing new report on White House secrecy. Dec 12, US News and World Report.
- Jon Whiten. 2006. Subverting, not preserving democracy. July/Aug, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
- U.S. House Judiciary Committee (Democratic Staff). 2005. Preserving democracy: What went wrong in Ohio.
- James Risen . 2006. National security whistleblowers allege retaliation. Feb 15, Sacramento Bee.
- Nick Turse. 2005. Fallen legion: The casualties of the Bush Administration. TomDispatch.com.
- Nick Turse. 2005. Bush’s burgeoning body count: Fallen legion 2. Nov 25, TomDispatch.com.
- Nick Turse. 2006. The bureaucracy strikes back: Fallen legions 3. Feb 12, TomDispatch.com.
- Rory O’Connor and William Scott Malone. 2006. The 9-11 story that got away. May 18, Alternet.
- Agence France Press. 2006. U.S. propaganda aimed at foreigners reaches public: Pentagon Document. Jan 27.
- William Fisher. 2004. Activists crawl through web to untangle US secrecy. Nov 29, Inter Press Services.
- Bob Fitrakas. 2004. Diebold, electronic voting, and the vast right-wing conspiracy. Feb 25, Free Press.
- Christopher Lee. 2005. Administration rejects rules on PR videos. Washington Post, Mar 15.
- David Axe. 2006. Editor who ran afoul of military in Iraq reflects on his experiences. Feb 27, Editor & Publisher.
- Nicholas J.S. Davies. 2006. Burying the lancet report. Feb, Z Magazine.
- Scott Shane. 2005. Increase in the number of documents classified by the government. July 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070305B.shtml.
- Gayle MacDonald. 2001. Media fears censorhip as Bush requests caution. Oct 11, Toronto Globa and Mail. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1011-02.htm
- Patrick J. Sloyan. 2003. How the Mass Slaughter of a Group of Iraqis Went Unreported. Feb 14, The Guardian UK. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/1/47/printer
- Michael Messing. 2004. Iraq, the press, and the elections. Dec 16, New York Review of Books. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_04/120904J.shtml.
- Mark Lewellyn-Biddle. 2004. Voting machines gone wild. Jan, Third World Traveler. Online at www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Election_Reform/Voting_Machines_Wild.html.
- Gary Kamiya. 2005. Iraq: The unseen war. Aug 23, Salon.com. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082305O.shtml
- Dahr Jamail. 2005. Censorship. Jun 23, Iraq Dispatches. Online at www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/12135
- Christopher Brauchli. 2004. Protecting the president from dissent. Daily Camera, Aug 30. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0830-09.htm
- Dana Priest. 2004. A clash on classified documents. March 31, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A37357-2004Mar30¬Found=true
- Adam Clymer. 2003. Government openness at issue as Bush holds on to records. Jan 3, New York Times. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_02/010403A.wh.secrecy.htm
- Matthew Yglesias. 2004. Credibility gap. March 30, The American Prospect. Online at www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/03/yglesias-m-03-30.html
- Memory Hole. 2003. Media Misquote and Excise Bush Comment About “Scripted” Press Conference. Online at www.thememoryhole.com/media/scripted-scrub.htm
- Associated Press. 2004. Images of U.S. soldiers’ coffins released. April 22. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0422-11.htm
- Linda McQuaig. 2003. 9/11 movie paints Bush as hero. June 1. Toronto Star. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
- Rebecca Carr. 2004. Government secrecy growing since Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. March 14, Palm Beach Post. Online at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0314-05.htm
- Karen Kwiatkowski. 2004. The new Pentagon papers. Salon.com, Mar 10. Online at www.commondreams.org/views04/0310-09.htm
- Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest. 2004. The lie factory. Jan/Feb, Mother Jones. Online at www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
- Dana Milbank. 2004. The administration v the administration. June 29, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13200-2004Jun28.html?referrer=emailarticle
- Scott Sonner. 2004. Old Forest Service photos raise flap. April 13, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A6413-2004Apr12¬Found=true
- Ed Garvey. 2004. Right wing now hijacking PBS by moving to control content. June 9, Madison Times. Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
- Mike Allen. 2004. Pentagon deleted Rumsfeld comment. April 21, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A28729-2004Apr20¬Found=true
- Edward Lazarus. 2001. The Bush Administration and secrecy: Limiting what we can know about the government, while expanding what it can know about us. Findlaw.com, Nov. 27. Online at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20011127.html
- Blaine Harden. 2004. What you don’t see at Olympic Park. June 21, Washington Post. Online at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56373-2004Jun20.html?referrer=emailarticle
- theMemoryhole.org. 2003. White House alters web pages about Iraq combat. Memoryhole.org. Online at http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/iraq-combat/
- Progressive Newswire. 2004. CNN to Al Jazeera: Why report civilian deaths? Online at www.commondreams.org/news2004/0415-09.htm
- Robert Dreyfuss. 2002. The Pentagon muzzles the CIA. American Prospect 13(22). Online at http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html
- Union of Concerned Scientists. 2004. Scientific integrity in policymaking: An investigation into the Bush Administration’s misuse of science. UCUSA.org. Executive Summary online at http://www2.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/page.cfm?pageID=1322
- Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. 2003. The secrets of September 11. Newsweek. Online at http://www.msnbc.com/news/907379.asp
- Andrew C. Revkin and Katharine Q. Seelye. 2003. Report by the EPA leaves out data on climate change. June 19, New York Times.
- Elisabeth Bumiller. 2001. Bush keeps a grip on presidential papers. Nov 2, NY Times.
- Robert Bryce. 2002. The loyal lieutenants: Bush applies litmus test of allegiance in choosing inner circle. Weeklywire.com.
- David Ray Griffin. 2005. The 9/11 Commission report: A 571-page lie. 911truth.org. Online at www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050523112738404
- Abid Aslam. 2006. Incomes fall, hunger worsens as Bush says we’re ‘doing fine.’ Feb 28, OneWorld.net. Online at www.truthout.org/docs_2006/022806D.shtml
- Federation of American Scientists. 2003. Remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney to the American Society of News Editors. fas.org, April 9. Online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2003/04/vp040903.html
- Federation of American Scientists. 2003. Project on Government Secrecy. Online at http://www.fas.org/sgp/index.html
- Charles Lewis. 2003. Even in wartime, stealth and democracy do not mix. Center for Public Integrity. Online at http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=506&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0
- The Propaganda Remix project. Online at http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
- Paul Boutin. 2003. Grand old protest. slate.com, Jan 24. Online at http://slate.msn.com/id/2077553/
- Dennis Roddy. 2003. Bush-backing letters to editor eerily similar. Jan 25, Post-Gazette.com, .
- Elizabeth Bumiller. 2003. Keepers of Bush image lift stagecraft to new heights. May 16, New York Times.
