Joe Sexton
Joe Sexton is a senior editor at ProPublica. Before coming to ProPublica in 2013, he had worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor at The New York Times. Sexton served as Metropolitan Editor at the Times from 2006 to 2011, and his staff won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the award for breaking news for its coverage of Eliot Spitzer’s downfall. From 2011 to 2013, Sexton served as the paper's Sports Editor, overseeing its coverage of the 2012 Summer Games in London and the Penn State scandal, among other major stories. The department under Sexton won a wide array of awards for its photography, art design and innovative online presentations. As a reporter, Sexton covered sports, politics, crime and the historic overhaul of the country's welfare legislation. His work was anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting (Houghton/Mifflin.) Sexton is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn and the father of four daughters.
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Racism and intolerance is being seeded in our youth all over the country.
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Sanders is urging the president to issue an executive order preventing federal contractors from sending jobs overseas for cheaper labor.
Rohingya Genocide – Links to corporatism, geopolitics & wahhabism
Fake news corporate media uses atrocity propaganda to sell sensational stories, and politicians use faux outrage to bully Myanmar’s leaders.
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Trump’s remarks would be considered inappropriate at a Model UN meeting, let alone in addressing the real thing.
Why Trump is so wrong on Iran
The stain left by Trump on our reputation will carry costs to us and our children that we cannot begin to imagine.
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