WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT WAR

How reporting, and the way the US government speaks about the wars it sponsors, has changed between the Bush and Biden administrations

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush, and Vice President Dick Cheney at the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute to Rumsfeld at the Pentagon December 15, 2006 in Arlington, Virginia.

The last week of August is usually a slow one in my business. Whether at the New York Times or the New Yorker, as an investigative reporter I stayed the hell…