Parker Yesko

Dec 18, 2024 | newyorker.com | Parker Yesko

In today’s newsletter, who to call when your stuff doesn’t spark joy. But, first, In the Dark’s reporting is cited in a demand for answers on the Haditha massacre. Plus:Justin Chang’s favorite films of 2024Has celebrity cheating culture gone too far? Why you can’t pack a bagParker YeskoReporter, In the DarkNearly two decades after U.S. Marines killed twenty-five civilians, including women and children, in Haditha, Iraq, Congress is demanding answers.

Nov 22, 2024 | newyorker.com | Parker Yesko

On November 10, 2019, just before Veterans Day, Fox News aired an hour-long special, “Modern Warriors,” featuring one of its political commentators and hosts, Pete Hegseth, along with four men who had served in U.S. Special Operations units. The group sat around a table in what appeared to be the wine cellar of a fancy Manhattan restaurant. They rested their tattooed forearms on the white tablecloth, sipped glasses of red wine, and talked about killing bad guys.

Nov 15, 2024 | lawfaremedia.org | Madeleine Baran |Parker Yesko |Jen Patja

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko, investigative reporters with the New Yorker’s In the Dark podcast, join Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss In the Dark: Season 3, which tells the story of a small group of Marines who killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005.

Sep 11, 2024 | rsn.org | Parker Yesko

The largest known database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the military-justice system rarely punishes perpetrators. War entails unspeakable violence, much of it entirely legal. And yet some violence is so abhorrent that it falls outside the bounds of law. When the perpetrators are U.S. service members, the American military is supposed to hold them to account. It is also supposed to keep records of wrongdoing in a systematic manner.

Sep 10, 2024 | newyorker.com | Parker Yesko

In today’s newsletter, the In the Dark team unveils a groundbreaking database. Plus:• How Harris should debate Trump• The Republican strategy in Arizona• The 2024 National Book Award longlistsWar entails unspeakable violence, much of it entirely legal. And yet, some violence is so abhorrent that it falls outside the bounds of law. When the perpetrators are U.S. service members, the American military is supposed to hold them to account.