Peter Wallsten
Accountability and Enterprise Editor at The New York Times
Accountability & Enterprise Editor for NYT in DC
Articles
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Feb 28, 2025 |
editorandpublisher.com | Dick Stevenson |Peter Wallsten
We’ve all experienced the intensity of the Trump administration’s efforts over the last month to upend the federal government and redirect policy across vast areas of American life. Those developments have only made us more excited about the new team we’ve been building to dive deeply into that process and track the impacts. We’ll have more soon on the full roster of that group.
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Dec 29, 2023 |
adn.com | Peter Wallsten |Paul Kane |early April
Just a few months had passed since Ben Wheeler was slaughtered by a gunman with an AR-15 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and his mother was on Capitol Hill pleading with a U.S. senator to understand her grief. Francine Wheeler wanted to know what Sen. Heidi Heitkamp would do if it had been her 6-year-old child who was murdered.
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Dec 27, 2023 |
msn.com | Peter Wallsten |Paul Kane
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Dec 27, 2023 |
washingtonpost.com | Peter Wallsten |Paul Kane
Dec. 27 at 6:00 a.m.CommentSave American IconA series examining the AR-15, a weapon with a singular hold on a divided nationColt acquired the AR-15 patent and trademark from Armalite in 1959. The patent expired, leaving many companies to produce their own weapons, commonly called AR-15-style rifles. While Colt still holds the trademark, “AR-15” has become a ubiquitous term for a popular style of gas-operated, magazine-fed semiautomatic rifle.
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