Rick Santorum backer Foster Friess. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Rick Santorum says the Friess firestorm is 'crap.' New York Times staffers remember Anthony Shadid. Dexter Filkins remembers trying to keep up with him. The Jerusalem bureau chief has the most...

The article won Hastings a Polk Award and a book deal, but it was not universally lauded. Many of his colleagues accused him of breaking a tacit media-military agreement by printing innocuous jokes not meant for public consumption. Dexter Filkins of...

I've had a 20-year history of politics in Orange County, where I've seen the right wing fight the left wing, and the moderates fight each of them, and they all fight each other, and the party go down the drain."....

By the time a major war effort returned, in 2003, that generation had grown too old to visit the trenches, allowing the emergence of Generation X reporters like Dexter Filkins and George Packer, who did not share their predecessors' contempt for the...