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Ken Silverstein

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Ken Silverstein’s Biography

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Ken Silverstein is a long-time Washington, DC-based investigative reporter who has also been on staff or masthead at publications such as VICE (Contributing Editor), Harper’s (Washington Editor), and the Los Angeles Times (Washington investigative unit). His byline has appeared in dozens of other publications, including New York, Daily Mail, County Highway, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Mother Jones, The Nation, Baffler, and Foreign Policy. He’s also written six books, including The Radioacti…

Ken Silverstein’s Journalist Portfolio

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat

Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a men…

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Boston and D.C. sex ring may have been 'honeypot' by foreign state

Boston and D.C. sex ring may have been 'honeypot' by foreign state

Experts interviewed by DailyMail.com suspect the network of brothels operating in the Greater Boston and Wash…

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Did Bob Menendez's Donors Know They Were Paying for $64 Steaks?

Did Bob Menendez's Donors Know They Were Paying for $64 Steaks?

When it comes to the art of living well on political contributions, the New Jersey Democratic senator operate…

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The Colombian Murder Case That Refuses to Die

The Colombian Murder Case That Refuses to Die

Twenty-two years ago, three union leaders for mine workers employed by an American company were killed. The m…

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Inside married SD gov Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski's affair

Inside married SD gov Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski's affair

A DailyMail.com investigation has uncovered evidence of the couple's affair: Trips that mixed business with p…

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How Michael Goguen Got Conned

How Michael Goguen Got Conned

How one billionaire with a savior complex and a voracious sexual appetite got conned by his best friend, who …

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Articles

Marco Rubio: Poor Little Rich Boy Runs Into Real Estate Trouble

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By Ken Silverstein
| washingtonbabylondc.com
Senator Marco Rubio during a 2016 campaign event when he was running for the GOP’s presidential nomination. Rubio was an early favorite in the race but his campaign quickly went up in flames and he withdrew after he placed second to Donald Trump in his own home state of Florida. On March 17, 2016, Rubio promised he was through with politics and would be a "private citizen" by January 2017. Sadly, that was simply another lie among countless others during his life and political career.
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Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat Original

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By Ken Silverstein
| The New Republic Verified
In his book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, Erik Larson cites a cable sent to the State Department in June 1933 by a U.S. diplomat posted in Germany that provided a far more candid assessment of the Nazi leadership than the one that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration was then conveying to the public.
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Did Bob Menendez’s Donors Know They Were Paying for $64 Steaks?

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By Ken Silverstein
| The New Republic Verified
During the early evening of November 29, Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey was hunkered down at Morton’s Steakhouse in downtown Washington, where he and an associate were savoring cordials and smoking cigars on a covered patio that overlooks Connecticut Avenue.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Brazil correspondent, Associated Press.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Bob Woodward
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