Richard Perez-Pena

@perezpena

Editor/reporter, New York Times International news desk.

New York
Joined April 2009
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  1. Oct 18

    Withholding your byline over an article's validity is a very rare and extreme move by a reporter. New York Post Published Hunter Biden Report Amid Newsroom Doubts

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  2. Oct 8

    Even in a year of such loss, this stands out. Jim was a great reporter and writer, scrupulously fair, always looking out for the underdog. He was also a mensch and a wise friend to so many. Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies at 63

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  3. Oct 5

    3 weeks: Hurricane, wildfires, RBG, 200,000 US Covid dead, Trump won't agree to honor vote, ACB, Trump tax revelations, 1 million global Covid dead, awful `debate,' Trump won't denounce white supremacists, Trump has Covid, hospitalized, bunch of GOP infected ... I'm exhausted

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  4. Sep 2

    Here we go again: Aleksei Navalny Was Poisoned With Novichok, Germany Says

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  5. Retweeted
    Aug 26

    Madison Cawthorn, the 25-year-old Republican House candidate in North Carolina, declared “James Madison was just 25 years old when he signed the Declaration of Independence." Madison did not sign the Declaration of Independence.

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  6. Aug 26

    Awwww, that would be TERRIBLE if something got in the way of Facebook ads ... Facebook warns advertisers on Apple privacy changes

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  7. Jul 18

    Remember when certain people said this thing would peter out with warm weather? Well, um ...

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  8. Jul 15

    Also, Twitter, WTF is up with your security? Wait, did I write that or did a scammer?

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  9. Jul 15

    So about this Bitcoin hack. It's phony money. It's beloved by criminals. It's backed by nothing. And people are shocked, shocked that there's a scam. OK, then.

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    Jul 14

    everything unsettling that is happening right now, in this moment, -- perhaps, in yet another letter you've read -- is about power. who has it, who wants it, how its wielded, and what it means to challenge and upend that.

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  11. May 4

    Which would be surprising, since A) it was 1918, B) final Allied offensive began Aug 1918, German resistance and resources crumbled, C) deadly 2nd flu wave hit Sept-Dec 1918, D) war ended Nov 1918. But other than that ...

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    The President says the Spanish Flu of 1917 probably ended World War I
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  12. May 4

    Kent State was 50 years ago today. That sentence makes me feel old.

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  13. Apr 24

    Just astounding that this needed saying: Don't inject or drink your household disinfectant.

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    Apr 21

    Will anyone who breathlessly pitched hydroxychloroquine as a miracle drug show a modicum of regret or even self-awareness over this? Doubtful. More likely is they’ll ignore the study entirely

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  15. Apr 13

    much less in the Constitution. His annoyance at losing was overwhelmed by his law nerd excitement, and he got me excited about it, too.

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  16. Apr 13

    the court had relied on a provision in the original Constitution, in a way that had NEVER been tested before. It was "a case of first impression," and you simply don't get cases of first impression on legal concepts that have been sitting in plain sight for 200-plus years,

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  17. Apr 13

    He wrote a bill and got it passed, and some months later, he came into the press room, excitedly telling me that the federal appeals court in Manhattan overturned his law. Why, I wondered, was he so eager to talk about a defeat? He gave me a crash course in Constitutional law:

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  18. Apr 13

    Rather than bemoaning his loss, he started calling himself the world's greatest nine-fingered piano player, which was no doubt false, but he said it with such gusto. One Richard Brodsky anecdote in particular sticks with me:

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  19. Apr 13

    More often it was brilliant. He was funny, argumentative, engaging, exasperating and interesting, sometimes all at once. He used to occasionally play piano in a bar band, then one year he returned for a legislative session with a missing fingertip, thanks to a gardening accident.

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  20. Apr 13

    An editor used to ask me if there was any possible way to write the story without quoting him AGAIN. It was hard. He was always worth listening to. He always made sure, no matter the issue, to come up with a thought I hadn't heard from anyone else. Sometimes it was nutty.

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