INVESTIGATIVE HEROES: Dawisha, Barrett, and Politkovskaya

A tribute to real reporting. It is imperative their names and their work live on

***Originally published on January 4, 2023. I am republishing as a reminder to honor real investigative reporting.***

“There is no other job where you get paid to tell the truth.”—Wayne Barrett

“Instead of seeing Russia as a democracy in the process of failing, we need to see it as an authoritarian system in the process of succeeding.”—Karen Dawisha

“We ar…