The people who dug it up.
Most of what we grade, someone else broke first: a reporter who filed the records request, an author who spent years in the archives. These pages credit them. Each one lists their work we draw on, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded the claims built on it. Not to be confused with The People, the members of the club our investigations document.
Journalists and authors
- Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow
1 page
- Jules Archer
The Plot to Seize the White House
1 page
- Ronen Bergman
Rise and Kill First
5 pages · 2 graded claims
- Robert Bilott
Exposure
3 pages
- Kai Bird
The Chairman
2 pages · 3 graded claims
- Edwin Black
IBM and the Holocaust
1 page
- Grace Blakeley
Vulture Capitalism
1 page
- Sarah Blaskey
The Grifter's Club
1 page
- Julie K. Brown
Perversion of Justice · Perversion of Justice
8 pages · 5 graded claims
- Russ Buettner
Lucky Loser
1 page
- James Burnham
The Managerial Revolution
1 page
- Smedley D. Butler
War Is a Racket
1 page
- Francisco Cantú
The Line Becomes a River
1 page
- Max Chafkin
The Contrarian · The Contrarian
5 pages · 1 graded claim
- Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent
1 page
- Ward Churchill
Agents of Repression
4 pages
- Andrew Cockburn
The Spoils of War
1 page
- Susanne Craig
Lucky Loser
1 page
- Michael D'Antonio
Hershey
3 pages
- Philip Dray
There Is Power in a Union
4 pages
- Jesse Eisinger
The Chickenshit Club
1 page
- David Enrich
Dark Towers
1 page
- Virginia Eubanks
Automating Inequality
1 page
- Ronan Farrow
The New Yorker
1 page
- Zeke Faux
Number Go Up
5 pages
- Brandon L. Garrett
Too Big to Jail
3 pages
- Carey Gillam
Whitewash
3 pages
- Glenn Greenwald
No Place to Hide
1 page
- Jacob S. Hacker
Winner-Take-All Politics
1 page
- William D. Hartung
Prophets of War
1 page
- David Harvey
The Story of Capital
1 page
- Edward S. Herman
Manufacturing Consent
1 page
- Kelly Lytle Hernández
Migra!
1 page
- Seymour M. Hersh
The Samson Option
5 pages · 5 graded claims
- Charles Higham
Trading with the Enemy
2 pages · 1 graded claim
- Kashmir Hill
Your Face Belongs to Us
2 pages
- Nicholas von Hoffman
Citizen Cohn
3 pages · 6 graded claims
- Ben Hubbard
MBS
1 page
- Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk
1 page
- Annie Jacobsen
Operation Paperclip
3 pages · 3 graded claims
- Diarmuid Jeffreys
Hell's Cartel
2 pages
- Owen Jones
The Fall of the West
2 pages
- Patrick Radden Keefe
London Falling
0 pages
- Stephen Kinzer
The Brothers
3 pages · 3 graded claims
- Naomi Klein
End Times Fascism
2 pages
- Sheelah Kolhatkar
Black Edge
1 page
- Adam LeBor
Tower of Basel
1 page · 1 graded claim
- Christopher Leonard
Kochland
1 page
- Lawrence Lessig
Republic, Lost
1 page
- Yasha Levine
Surveillance Valley
1 page
- Antony Loewenstein
The Palestine Laboratory
6 pages · 1 graded claim
- Jane Mayer
Dark Money
5 pages
- Betty Medsger
The Burglary
3 pages · 1 graded claim
- Nicholas Nehamas
The Grifter's Club
1 page
- Caitlin Ostroff
The Grifter's Club
1 page
- Paul Pierson
Winner-Take-All Politics
1 page
- John Preston
Fall
5 pages · 2 graded claims
- Selwyn Raab
Five Families
2 pages · 1 graded claim
- Frances Stonor Saunders
The Cultural Cold War
4 pages · 2 graded claims
- Paul Scharre
Army of None
3 pages
- Bruce Schneier
Data and Goliath
2 pages
- Nick Schou
Kill the Messenger
3 pages · 1 graded claim
- Peter Dale Scott
The Road to 9/11
2 pages
- Christopher Simpson
Blowback
2 pages · 1 graded claim
- Quinn Slobodian
Muskism
1 page
- Edward Snowden
Permanent Record
1 page
- Jimmy Soni
The Founders
1 page
- Balaji Srinivasan
The Network State
4 pages · 2 graded claims
- Matt Stoller
Goliath
5 pages
- Matthew Avery Sutton
American Apocalypse
3 pages
- Matt Taibbi
The Divide
1 page
- David Talbot
The Devil's Chessboard
3 pages
- Ben Tarnoff
Muskism
1 page
- Byron Tau
Means of Control
2 pages
- Astra Taylor
End Times Fascism
2 pages
- Nick Turse
The Complex
1 page
- Ashlee Vance
Elon Musk
1 page
- Yanis Varoufakis
Technofeudalism
1 page
- Jim Vander Wall
Agents of Repression
4 pages
- Max Wallace
The American Axis
1 page
- Vicky Ward
Kushner, Inc.
1 page
- Jay Weaver
The Grifter's Club
1 page
- Gary Webb
Dark Alliance
2 pages · 1 graded claim
- Whitney Webb
One Nation Under Blackmail
9 pages · 17 graded claims
- Tim Weiner
Blank Check
2 pages
- Hugh Wilford
The Mighty Wurlitzer
3 pages · 1 graded claim
- Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy Incorporated
1 page
- Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
1 page
Newsrooms
The outlets whose reporting our claims cite, until each story's reporter has a page of their own.
- The New York Times
The New York Times · The New York Times
69 pages · 115 graded claims
- Reuters
Reuters · Reuters
41 pages · 67 graded claims
- The Guardian
The Guardian · The Guardian
45 pages · 62 graded claims
- ProPublica
ProPublica · ProPublica
32 pages · 60 graded claims
- NPR
NPR · NPR
51 pages · 52 graded claims
- The Washington Post
The Washington Post · The Washington Post
44 pages · 49 graded claims
- Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera · Al Jazeera
25 pages · 37 graded claims
- NBC News
NBC News · NBC News
41 pages · 37 graded claims
- CBS News
CBS News · CBS News
38 pages · 32 graded claims
- Drop Site News
Drop Site News · Drop Site News
16 pages · 30 graded claims
- Forbes
Forbes · Forbes
38 pages · 30 graded claims
- The Times of Israel
The Times of Israel · The Times of Israel
24 pages · 29 graded claims
- CNBC
CNBC · CNBC
29 pages · 28 graded claims
- CNN
CNN · CNN
35 pages · 28 graded claims
- The Associated Press
The Associated Press · The Associated Press
36 pages · 25 graded claims
- Politico
Politico · Politico
24 pages · 25 graded claims
- Bloomberg
Bloomberg · Bloomberg
21 pages · 24 graded claims
- The Hill
The Hill · The Hill
26 pages · 23 graded claims
- The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal · The Wall Street Journal
16 pages · 22 graded claims
- The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times · The Los Angeles Times
14 pages · 21 graded claims
- Haaretz
Haaretz · Haaretz
16 pages · 20 graded claims
- BBC
BBC · BBC
14 pages · 19 graded claims
- PBS
PBS · PBS
28 pages · 19 graded claims
- Sludge
Sludge · Sludge
9 pages · 18 graded claims
- The Intercept
The Intercept · The Intercept
14 pages · 17 graded claims
- The Jerusalem Post
The Jerusalem Post · The Jerusalem Post
16 pages · 17 graded claims
- Axios
Axios · Axios
21 pages · 16 graded claims
- The American Prospect
The American Prospect · The American Prospect
12 pages · 14 graded claims
- Common Dreams
Common Dreams · Common Dreams
20 pages · 14 graded claims
- Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! · Democracy Now!
13 pages · 14 graded claims
- Middle East Eye
Middle East Eye · Middle East Eye
11 pages · 14 graded claims
- The New Republic
The New Republic · The New Republic
15 pages · 14 graded claims
- Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair · Vanity Fair
9 pages · 14 graded claims
- Variety
Variety · Variety
8 pages · 14 graded claims
- The New Yorker
The New Yorker · The New Yorker
8 pages · 13 graded claims
- TechCrunch
TechCrunch · TechCrunch
13 pages · 13 graded claims
- Business Insider
Business Insider · Business Insider
11 pages · 12 graded claims
- Mother Jones
Mother Jones · Mother Jones
12 pages · 12 graded claims
- Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone · Rolling Stone
20 pages · 12 graded claims
- ABC News
ABC News · ABC News
16 pages · 11 graded claims
- The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast · The Daily Beast
14 pages · 11 graded claims
- Fortune
Fortune · Fortune
18 pages · 11 graded claims
- Mediaite
Mediaite · Mediaite
15 pages · 11 graded claims
- NOTUS
NOTUS · NOTUS
6 pages · 9 graded claims
- Responsible Statecraft
Responsible Statecraft · Responsible Statecraft
7 pages · 9 graded claims
- Truthout
Truthout · Truthout
11 pages · 9 graded claims
- The Atlantic
The Atlantic · The Atlantic
10 pages · 8 graded claims
- Citizen Lab
Citizen Lab · Citizen Lab
5 pages · 8 graded claims
- Time
Time · Time
10 pages · 8 graded claims
- UPI
UPI · UPI
14 pages · 8 graded claims
- USA Today
USA Today · USA Today
9 pages · 8 graded claims
- Wired
Wired · Wired
4 pages · 8 graded claims
- Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy · Foreign Policy
7 pages · 7 graded claims
- Fox News
Fox News · Fox News
11 pages · 7 graded claims
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish Telegraphic Agency · Jewish Telegraphic Agency
9 pages · 7 graded claims
- The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald · The Miami Herald
8 pages · 7 graded claims
- Mondoweiss
Mondoweiss · Mondoweiss
5 pages · 7 graded claims
- Newsweek
Newsweek · Newsweek
12 pages · 7 graded claims
- Semafor
Semafor · Semafor
4 pages · 7 graded claims
- The Bulwark
The Bulwark · The Bulwark
4 pages · 6 graded claims
- Courthouse News
Courthouse News · Courthouse News
7 pages · 6 graded claims
- The Financial Times
The Financial Times · The Financial Times
9 pages · 6 graded claims
- The Forward
The Forward · The Forward
7 pages · 6 graded claims
- The Lever
The Lever · The Lever
6 pages · 6 graded claims
- The New York Post
The New York Post · The New York Post
11 pages · 6 graded claims
- The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune · The Texas Tribune
8 pages · 6 graded claims
- 404 Media
404 Media · 404 Media
2 pages · 5 graded claims
- The Nation
The Nation · The Nation
7 pages · 5 graded claims