How to Understand the Reagan Airport Crash

It took the social-media site X about an hour to reach consensus on the cause of the midair collision over the Potomac River on Wednesday evening: the helicopter was trying to take down the plane, to kill someone on board. There is lots of other speculation, including, famously, by President Trump, who blamed the Federal […]

How to Botch an Assassination Investigation

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, shocked the nation. It brought justifiable scrutiny on the law enforcement agencies that should have prevented it as well as those that investigated it. Historians, journalists and filmmakers continue to speculate on what happened. Sixty years later, government records are still being declassified and […]