Seymour M. Hersh
Seymour M. Hersh wrote his first piece for The New Yorker in 1971 and has been a regular contributor to the magazine since 1993.
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Is a damaged Administration less likely to attack Iran, or more?
Seymour M. Hersh’s 2004 report on the torture of Iraqis by American soldiers.
Why is Washington going easy on Pakistan’s nuclear black marketers?
Will the counter-insurgency plan in Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam?
Did the Bush Administration burn a useful source on Al Qaeda?
The battle between Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon.
Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
Why the government didn't know what it knew.
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the business dealings of Bush associates in Kuwait after the Gulf War. Tells how Bush was accompanied to Kuwait on a triumphal …
A REPORTER AT LARGE about the defused crisis between India and Pakistan in 1990, which could have led to nuclear war between the two countries, and …
A REPORTER AT LARGE is about President Richard Nixon, the White House Tapes that were made during his presidency, and the over ten year struggle Nixon has …
REPORTER AT LARGE about the Army's investigation of the Son My massacres of S. Vietnamese civilians (women, children, & old men) by US troops, on Mar. …
Seymour M. Hersh’s 1972 piece about a mass killing of civilians during the Vietnam War.