Why we need long-form, investigative journalism

A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias. Here’s what he found.

ProPublica

It’s so ‘easy’ to hate some one or some group, to have an almost visceral distaste and hate, but it is so much more difficult to understand them… to really, really understand beyond that intuitive or instinctive disagreement.

What makes them tick? How did they form their ideology? What fuels and fosters their suspicions. For those who we disagree with, we shake our heads in amazement that they can be “so wrong.”

This ProPublica required time and guts to research, check, double check and write. For the mole, it required a whole lot of chutzpah.

The resulting work is well worth our attention.