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Trump lost almost $1 billion in 1995. The deduction stretched for years.
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By David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Megan Twohey
David Barstow, a senior writer at The Times, is a winner of four Pulitzers Prizes.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for explanatory reporting for his work with Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner in shattering Donald Trump’s myth that he is a self-made billionaire. In 2013, he and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for “Walmart Abroad,” a series that exposed Walmart’s aggressive use of bribery to fuel its rapid expansion in Mexico. In 2009, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for “Message Machine,” his series about the Pentagon’s hidden campaign to influence news coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2004, he and Lowell Bergman were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service for articles about employers who committed egregious workplace safety violations that killed or injured hundreds of American workers.
Mr. Barstow joined The Times in 1999 and he has been a member of the paper’s Investigative unit since 2002. He is also the recipient of three Polk Awards, the Goldsmith Prize, the Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton, the Barlett and Steele Gold Medal, a Loeb Award, the Sidney Hillman Award, the Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting, two Sigma Delta Chi awards for distinguished service, the Peabody Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Mirror Award, an Overseas Press Club Citation, two Society of American Business Editors and Writers awards, and the Gold Keyboard.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Barstow was a reporter for The St. Petersburg Times in Florida, where he was a finalist for three Pulitzer Prizes. Before that, he was a reporter at The Times-Union in Rochester, N.Y., and The Green Bay Press-Gazette in Wisconsin. Mr. Barstow, a native of Concord, Mass., is a graduate of Northwestern University, which honored him with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2010. He was inducted into the Hall of Achievement at the university’s Medill School of Journalism in 2015.
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By David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Megan Twohey
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By Ben Protess, Robert Gebeloff and Danielle Ivory
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By David Barstow
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By Susanne Craig
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By David Barstow
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By David Barstow, Mike McIntire, Patricia Cohen, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner
The Republican nominee reported nearly $1 billion in losses in 1995, opening the door to tax avoidance in subsequent years.
By David Barstow, Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner and Megan Twohey
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By Steve Eder and Patricia Cohen
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By Steve Eder and Kitty Bennett
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By David Barstow
Conversations with volunteers at a small Trump campaign office in an old cigar factory yielded some surprises on the subjects of race, ethnicity and bigotry.
By David Barstow
The death of the protester, coming after right-wing Hindus had pressured the government to cancel the event, is part of a string of escalating sectarian violence.
By David Barstow and Hari Kumar
The battle for Bihar played out against a national debate over whether the prime minister’s India is becoming increasingly intolerant of secularists, Muslims and political dissent in general.
By David Barstow
Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, has staked his prestige on helping his party gain control in the populous but poor state of Bihar.
By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj
The foreign minister said there had been more plots to assassinate the president after an explosion aboard his boat in September.
By David Barstow
It was the fourth time in six weeks that Hindus had killed Muslims they suspected of slaughtering, stealing or smuggling cows, which are seen as revered religious symbols.
By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj
India’s prime minister sent a political enforcer on Sunday to order leaders not to make statements condoning bigotry or violence against beef eaters.
By David Barstow
The revolt now confronts Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a critical test of his vaunted ability to shape the public narrative of his administration.
By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj
Recent eruptions of deadly violence have been sparked by rumors of harm to cows, which are considered sacred by the country’s Hindu majority.
By Hari Kumar and David Barstow
Ten men were charged with murdering a Muslim man over rumors that a cow had been killed, raising questions about a group allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party.
By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj
If the claim is verified, the killing of Cesare Tavella, 50, would be the Islamic State’s first attack in Bangladesh.
By Julfikar Ali Manik and David Barstow
Resentment has gelled into opposition to India’s version of affirmative action, a system of strict quotas that reserves nearly half of jobs for those from disadvantaged castes or tribes.
By David Barstow and Suhasini Raj
Teesta Setalvad, who seeks to hold the Indian prime minister responsible for deadly riots in 2002, has been overwhelmed by attacks emanating from entities controlled by him or his allies.
By David Barstow
The result also increases the likelihood that there will be a careful accounting of Mr. Rajapaksa’s decade in power.
By David Barstow
Mahinda Rajapaksa said he was unlikely to lead Sri Lanka’s next government as results were still being tallied Tuesday morning in Colombo.
By David Barstow
Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was voted out of office in January, is trying to become prime minister, but opponents are determined to bury his political hopes once and for all.
By David Barstow
Three networks were accused of violating rules by showing interviews that criticized the execution of Yakub Memon for the 1993 Mumbai bombings.
By David Barstow
Without warning, the government acted just weeks after the nation’s Supreme Court declined an activist’s request to block access to online pornography.
By David Barstow
India’s news media has been stirred by a robust debate over whether Yakub Memon, a Muslim in this predominantly Hindu nation, deserved to die.
By David Barstow
Audio, video and documents that show how the military’s talking points were disseminated.
Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited, an examination by The New York Times found.
By David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab
An inquiry is now looking at activities in Brazil, China and India, along with Mexico, Wal-Mart said. Its quarterly results showed lower-than-expected sales.
By Stephanie Clifford and David Barstow
Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing, an examination by The New York Times found.
By David Barstow
The Pentagon cultivated close ties with retired officers who worked as analysts for television and radio networks.
By David Barstow
Interviews, sworn testimony and statements from crew members show that the oil rig should have weathered the well blowout, but it didn’t because every one of its defenses failed.
By David Barstow, David Rohde and Stephanie Saul