The New Yorker
Our investigations stand on The New Yorker's reporting. This page collects every story of theirs we cite, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The reporting we cite
6 stories, each opening at its source.
- The New Yorker — 'How Biden Emboldened Israel's Aggression Toward Gaza and Iran' (Gordon, Austin, Sullivan quotes)
- The New Yorker — 'Among the Settlers' (May 31, 2004): Moshe Feiglin on Arabs and democracy
- NYT: 'How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn's Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America' — includes Trump Tower's concrete supplier S&A Concrete, controlled by Salerno and Gambino boss Paul Castellano, contracted while Cohn represented all parties (Vanity Fair, 2017; NYT contemporaneous reporting)
- Herbert Mitgang, Policing America’s Writers, The New Yorker (October 5, 1987) — documents the Reagan T-10 identification
- Jeffrey Toobin, The Dirty Trickster (The New Yorker, May 23, 2008)
- Ronan Farrow, How an Elite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein (The New Yorker, September 6, 2019) — on the MIT Media Lab episode
Where their work appears on this site
How we graded the claims built on their work
10 FACT · 2 PROBABLY TRUE · 1 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Israeli Influence on the United States →
'Moral hazard' and 'house money' — how the officials themselves described it
PROBABLY TRUE - “Not Like Everyone Else”: Israel’s Ideology of Exemption →
And it did not start with them: officeholders on the record, across more than a decade.
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Cohn's Organized-Crime Client Roster
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
NSM-20: the humanitarian-law finding made, then no suspension
FACT - The Dulles Blueprint →
Reagan as Confidential Informant T-10, 1943–1947
FACT - The Roy Cohn Method →
Roger Stone — the Cohn mentorship, 1979–1986
FACT - Roger Stone: the method made flesh. →
Stone began as a Nixon-era dirty trickster — and has spent a lifetime advertising it, Nixon tattoo included.
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The 2,000-lb bomb pause, then 500-lb bombs resumed
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The Rafah red line — drawn explicitly, then erased
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The US directly defended Israel; Israel repeatedly blindsided Washington
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
The World Central Kitchen strike, and an aid concession Netanyahu publicly denied
FACT - Israeli Influence on the United States →
Watch the spin: the alumni 'it was Trump's fault' framing
SOME SMOKE - Leslie Wexner →
Wexner gave Epstein his institutional standing (Harvard, Rockefeller University)
PROBABLY TRUE