Posts by David E. Sanger
"We have a beautiful moonrise and we’re headed right at it": Artemis II launches toward space to begin the first human journey to the moon and outside low-Earth orbit in more than a half century. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Denmark took the threat of a US invasion of Greenland so seriously that it sent blood supplies and explosives in January to blow up runways at civilian and military airports in case of attack. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
“Those who drafted the First Amend. believed that the nation’s security requires a free press and an informed people and that such security is endangered by governmental suppression of political speech. That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years.”
The core quote from the opinion in New York Times v. DoD:
“A primary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription,” wrote Judge Paul L. Friedman of the Federal District Court in Washington.
How hard would it be to break into the Isfahan nuclear storage facilities? Really hard….
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
A big look at Trump’s choices in Iran, all of which have significant downsides. And don’t miss the last chapter, on the challenge of taking Karg Island and the nuclear stockpile.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...
This morning on a special edition of The Daily, Mark Mazzetti and I explore, with Rachel Abrams, the latest American experiment in regime change.
The Killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader and the End of an Era in the Middle East www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/p...
On the Daily, I take a brisk walk through the State of the Union speech.
Trump’s Very Long, Very Partisan State of the Union Speech www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/p...
On the Daily, an in-depth discussion with Rachel Abrams about the logic - and the logical gaps - in Trump’s threats to attack Iran. If he strikes, I conclude, historians will view this as a war of choice.
Trump Weighs War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/p...
The state of play, and an interesting proposal for an off-ramp.
Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...
As Trump Weighs Iran Strikes, He Declines to Make Clear Case for Why, or Why Now www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...
“Rarely in modern times has the United States prepared to conduct a major act of war with so little explanation and so little public debate.”
Once the Americans Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, It’s the Europeans’ Turn. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
The end of arms control: With the expiration of New Start and Trump's failure to deliver a successor treaty he has promised since term one, the US and Russia have no legal limits on nuclear arsenals for the first time in 54 years. @sangernyt.bsky.social William Broad www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Trump Insists Tariffs Will Buoy the Economy. For Now, He’s on Damage Control. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
The Ukrainian Peace Plan Written by … Russia? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/p...
Today on the Daily, the best news podcast on the globe, Kim Barker reports from Kyiv and I take on the plan that read, in its first form, read like a Putin wish list. Listen in…