Attacks on the press? America’s seen this before.

Image: The front page of The New York Times on June 15, 1971. Image credit: The New York Times Corporate Archive / Nixon Library. Opinion article by Kathleen Parker. The Washington Post – January 16, 2026.

The FBI’s early wake-up call at a Washington Post reporter’s Virginia home and subsequent seizure of her phone and two laptops has sent chills through the Fourth Estate. Even non-journalists should be worried by what happened to Hannah Natanson, who found FBI agents at her front door at 6 a.m. Wednesday, wielding a search warrant. They were looking for classified information in a case against Aurelio Perez-Lugones, a government contractor recently charged with keeping national defense information, which he allegedly passed on to Natanson. […]

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