Noah Shachtman

4 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Noah Shachtman

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. If you’re running the security directorate of a hostile nation, savor this moment. It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government. Can you even call it stealing when it’s this simple?

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Noah Shachtman

It’s the FBI’s flagship field office, with more than a thousand agents and another thousand or so civilian employees. And right now, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter say that one priority at the Bureau’s New York Field Office is taking precedence over all others: the review and redaction of sensitive information in the Jeffrey Epstein case files, to prepare for possible publication.

1 month ago | nymag.com | Noah Shachtman

Early every morning, Jessica Tisch starts getting a series of emails she says she "lives or dies" by. They detail for the police commissioner how many murders and rapes, robberies and felony assaults, were recorded over the past day - how many shooters, how many guns, how many victims, and where it all took place. The slashing on the F train, the Wingstop robbed on Edson Avenue, the elderly man from Williamsburg gone missing, the body found floating near Pier 1 in Brooklyn Heights.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Noah Shachtman

One by one, the horses trot up the ramp and onto the track, pulling single-seat chariots behind them. Their drivers, dressed in garish green and bright pink silks, hop into position. Together, they begin to build up speed as they head into the setting sun. The clip-clop of their hooves hitting the track rises to a cacophony. "And they're off," the announcer says. The gates swing forward, and the race begins.

1 month ago | blackagendareport.com | Ann Garrison |Noah Shachtman |Raymond Turner |Chris Geraldi

This piece was originally printed in BAR in 2014. If Fox News is the Republican ministry of TV propaganda, MSNBC is the mouthpiece of the White House and corporate Democrats. The last real journalist in an MSNBC host spot was Phil Donahue, fired for letting antiwar lefties on the air once in a while. MSNBC must have a lot of confidence that their new host, Joy-Ann Reid, will carry their water and leverage her black face to carry their message to us instead of the other way around.