John Cook's posts

In January, Monica Crowley, a former Nixon acolyte expected to be nominated to the incoming Trump administration’s…

Today, Gizmodo’s parent company, Gizmodo Media Group, filed a Freedom of Information Act complaint in a New York…

Thirteen members of the International Women’s Day Strike were arrested outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan this…

As the last few weeks have demonstrated, good journalism requires good sources. The election of Donald Trump,…

Most publishers of news and information have policies governing their relationships to advertisers. Generally…

Gizmodo Media Group’s web properties practice honest, conversational journalism about stories—whimsical or serious,…

It is 1986. We are 13- and 14-year-olds, rank-smelling in unwashed teenager jeans, unsupervised and latch-keyed…

As delightful as it's been to watch Rupert Murdoch's British fiefdom slowly drown in a foul swamp of wickedness and…

Yesterday the Associated Press published a lengthy profile of "John," the secretive CIA agent who led the effort to…

Jowly asshole Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, is a security-obsessed paranoiac who spies on his employees,…

A New York Times story this morning about poor Fabrice Tourre, the colossal dick who sold fraudulent mortgage…

Charlie Sheen isn't an F-18, but he is an EC-130 cargo plane specially configured for psy-ops. Some EC-130 flights…

Our latest iteration of the Gawker Book Club features The Panic Virus, a forensic and infuriating account of the…

New York conducted itself like some third-rate 'burg during and after last weekend's blizzard, failing to take even…