In today’s newsletter: How the State Department let Israel get away with horrors in Gaza; contact our reporters; the Department of Justice sues landlords following our investigation; and more from our newsroom.
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.
The Trump administration is set to inherit twin crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, as well as a global struggle for the economic and technological edge over our rivals. It’s still unclear how much Donald Trump will want to intervene or isolate the U.S. while addressing crucial questions about our future on the global stage. Brett Murphy, who wrote today’s feature story on how the State Department let Israel get away with horrors in Gaza, is going to be covering the federal agencies at the center of the administration’s foreign affairs agenda and the corporations that help carry it out. Here’s how to reach him and how to contact other reporters from our newsroom.
In 2022, we reported how property management software-maker RealPage was helping landlords set rents across the country in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior. Since then: