Dan Barry

This truth is hard: Longtime writer for The New York Times. Books include "This Land: America, Lost and Found." https://t.co/vHpqtFjnDi

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His Death Was Interrupted, Just as He Had Planned

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry |Sarah Blesener

The family of Brendan Costello gathered in the hospital half-light. He had overcome so much in life, but the profound damage to his brain meant he would never again be Brendan. It was time. Listen to this article with reporter commentary Brendan had spent four months enduring three surgeries and a lengthy rehab after infections further destabilized his damaged spine.
Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn't Imagine Still Haunt Us

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry

Five years later, the everyday has returned to the pleasant New Jersey town of Maplewood. About the only visible trace of what was endured is the urgent plea that still adorns the caution-yellow marquee of the old movie theater. There for the last five years, ever since the theater closed at the dawn of the dread, it says: STAY HEALTHY. The letter L is tipped slightly, like someone staggered by a blow.
Pardoned for Jan. 6, She Came Home to a New Reality

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Dan Barry |Alan Feuer |Meridith Kohut

On her 15th day of freedom as a pardoned participant in the Jan. 6 riot, Rachel Powell drove through western Pennsylvania's gray winter to the county courthouse in Franklin. She needed to check off applying for a gun permit from her homecoming to-do list.
Pardoned for Jan. 6, She Came Home to a New Reality

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Dan Barry |Alan Feuer

22 hours agoTrump’s endorsement helped propel Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary. President Donald Trump brought an early end Thursday to the speculation around his favorite for the 2026 Florida governor’s race in a post on Truth Social, endorsing loyalist Rep. Byron Donalds for the …
How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6

Jan 5, 2025 | nytimes.com | Dan Barry |Alan Feuer

When asked about the reframing of the Capitol riot, and whether Mr. Trump accepts any responsibility for what unfolded on Jan. 6, his spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, instead referred in a statement to the "political losers" who tried to derail his career and asserted that "the mainstream media still refuses to report the truth about what happened that day." She added, "The American people did not fall for the Left's fear mongering over January 6th."The Jan.
On blood-soaked ground, a ‘prayer for the future’ of a divided land

Nov 27, 2024 | sanjuandailystar.com | Dan Barry

By Dan BarryThe bugler’s call to assemble had sounded, wreaths had been laid, a choral society had sung and dignitaries had spoken, all on a blood-consecrated hill in the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. All to commemorate the 161st anniversary of the speech that came to epitomize what it meant to be presidential. On Nov.
On Blood-Soaked Ground, a 'Prayer for the Future' of a Divided Land

Nov 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dan Barry |Todd Heisler

The bugler's call to assemble had sounded, wreaths had been laid, a choral society had sung and dignitaries had spoken, all on a blood-consecrated hill in the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. All to commemorate the 161st anniversary of the speech that came to epitomize what it meant to be presidential. On Nov.
Tommy Rath's Father Faces Down His Son's Murderer and His Grief

Nov 1, 2024 | nytimes.com | Dan Barry |Todd Heisler

The father of the victim was first to testify. He wore a gray quilted vest, a blue-gray shirt and an expression trying but failing to show nothing. He refused for now even to look at the thickset man charged in the torture and murder of his son. "Thomas Rath," he said, when asked to identify himself. The same name as his son. The same as an upstate New York murder case that reflected the struggles of communities to meet the commingled challenges of addiction, mental illness and homelessness.
Barricades and bulletproof glass: US communities prepare for election day

Nov 1, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Dan Barry

Protective boulders were placed outside the building that houses Luzerne County’s Bureau of Elections. Photo / Ruth Fremson, The New York TimesWith the spectre of political violence looming, the Department of Homeland Security has advised hundreds of communities on election safety. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania is at the centre of the unrest.
Barricades and bulletproof glass: A county prepares for Election Day

Oct 27, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Dan Barry

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — With northeastern Pennsylvania awash again in the reds and oranges of a dazzling autumn, workers recently planted boulders around a government building in downtown Wilkes-Barre to address a seasonal ugliness. But this was no beautification project. Luzerne County is bracing for Election Day.