I focus on powerful people and the influence they have over American society and the world. In recent years, I have written about the Trump family and its international business operations. I also have examined the lobbyists who brought sports betting to mobile phones across the nation and the executives behind the global search for metals needed to power the electric vehicle revolution. Most recently, I have been writing about the Pentagon generals and military contractors and their struggle to bring artificial intelligence and other high-tech tools to the U.S. military — a shift that will change warfare fundamentally.
I’ve been a reporter for more than three decades, starting at a small New Hampshire paper before moving to The Hartford Courant, then to The Washington Post and, since 1999, The Times. I covered the 2001 attacks in New York and ended up co-writing a book called “City in the Sky, the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center.” My work has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent with a team of Times reporters detailing Russia’s intervention in the 2016 U.S. elections.
I grew up in the Philadelphia area, before heading to the University of Vermont where I graduated with a degree in philosophy and history.
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Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners has invested more than $1.2 billion, much of it in firms abroad, drawing new scrutiny as his father-in-law, Donald Trump, again seeks the presidency. The New York Times Investigative Reporter, Eric Lipton, explains where the money is coming from and where it’s going.
By Eric Lipton, Gabriel Blanco and James Surdam
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners has invested more than $1.2 billion, much of it in firms abroad, drawing new scrutiny as his father-in-law, Donald Trump, again seeks the presidency.
By Eric Lipton, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
The focus of the former president’s hotel business is shifting from big cities to his golf resorts, which are benefiting from a relationship with the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tournaments.
By Eric Lipton
Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.
By Mara Hvistendahl, Jack Ewing and John Liu
After news reports that Jared Kushner plans to redevelop a site in Belgrade bombed by NATO in 1999, Serbian politicians clashed over whether the deal was appropriate.
By Eric Lipton
More than a decade ago, before running for president, Donald Trump expressed interest in developing the same site in Belgrade that his son-in-law now plans to invest $500 million in rebuilding.
By Eric Lipton, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, who was also a senior White House official, said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in Albania and Serbia.
By Eric Lipton, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman
After warnings that Russia could put a nuclear weapon into orbit, the U.S. is ramping up its space effort.
By Michael Barbaro, Eric Lipton, Michael Simon Johnson, Carlos Prieto, Will Reid, Mooj Zadie, Lexie Diao, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Pat McCusker and Alyssa Moxley
The Pentagon is in the early stages of a program to put constellations of smaller and cheaper satellites into orbit to counter space-based threats of the sort being developed by Russia and China.
By Eric Lipton
The decision in Parliament, opposed by environmentalists, will allow prospectors to start surveying the country’s waters.
By Eric Lipton