Iván L Nagy

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In the end, it had little impact on Belgium’s 4-1 thrashing of the United States men’s soccer team. But when the New York Times revealed that Donald Trump had made a successful appeal to the head of FIFA to reinstate Folarin Balogun, the US’s suspended top scorer in the World Cup, the public saw, not for the first time, how casually soccer’s governing body flouts its own rules under political pressure.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Early in the evening on June 24, two earthquakes forty seconds apart—one measuring 7.2, the other 7.5 on the Richter scale, the strongest in Venezuela in more than a hundred years—shook the country. The quakes devastated the northernmost region, hitting La Guaira and the capital, Caracas, the hardest. The earthquakes damaged or destroyed nearly sixty thousand buildings, injured more than eleven thousand people, and killed at least two thousand.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. For CJR’s special issue on access, I put together a timeline showing how the Pentagon has forced journalists out of the building, stripping away the protections necessary for reporters to keep the military in check.