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Theo Baker

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Theo Baker

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investigations. george polk award. NYT-bestselling author HOW TO RULE THE WORLD @penguinpress. likes/rts aren’t endorsement.

Joined January 2021

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Theo Baker
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May 18
Stunned and honored by this rave review in @nytimes. “Baker’s first book, HOW TO RULE THE WORLD is a rigorous, self-assured, propulsive, at times terrifying portrait of a dweebocracy that ‘sets the agenda for the planet.’”
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Theo Baker
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Sep 17, 2025
To be clear: It's not "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after comments about Charlie Kirk," it's "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump FCC chair" The distinction matters here.
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Theo Baker
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Jul 19, 2023
BREAKING: Stanford president to resign his post, retract “at least” 3 papers, after our reporting in @StanfordDaily exposed multiple papers with data manipulation and his refusal to retract studies when given opportunities over the course of 2 decades.
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research
From stanforddaily.com
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Theo Baker
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Mar 26, 2024
My piece today in @TheAtlantic is the product of five months of work, dozens of hours of interviews, and a lot of personal anguish. It tells the story of a campus consumed in unique fashion by bigotry, of reasonable students enabling rancor. Take a read!
The War at Stanford
From theatlantic.com
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Theo Baker
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Jul 30, 2023
The NYT asked me to write a guest essay about the resignation of Stanford's president. My takeaway? This is so much bigger than one man and his research. Scientific integrity is vital and its guardrails have proven insufficient:
Opinion | The Research Scandal at Stanford Is More Common Than You Think (Gift Article)
From nytimes.com
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Theo Baker
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Nov 14, 2025
The DOJ said “he had four hours to resign, or severe punitive measures would be leveled against the school by the Trump administration.” Utterly remarkable story about how the Trump administration has threatened, extorted, and bullied in its war against higher ed.
Michael S. Schmidt
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Nov 14, 2025
In an extraordinary 12-page letter, the former president of UVa described to the faculty the immense pressure the Trump DOJ directed at him and the school and said that his ouster had been publicly mischaracterized. nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/…
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Theo Baker
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Oct 10, 2023
A coalition of #Stanford students has called the brutal mass murder and kidnapping of Israeli civilians "legal" and "legitimate...resistance." Never mind that children and grandparents were dragged from their homes and a literal peace festival. Never mind the defiled corpses.
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Theo Baker
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Apr 18, 2024
Putting aside whether this decision is right, I just want to note that an educated student who says she is against genocide and violence has a literal hammer and sickle in her bio. This seems incompatible, no? The Soviet Union is responsible for the genocide of millions…
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Theo Baker
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Feb 17, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s Alzheimer’s research was called “the miracle result.” Now, colleagues allege that a 2011 internal review found “falsified data” and Tessier-Lavigne “walked around…with a broom and swept up the footprints in the dirt.”
Review found ‘falsified data’ in Stanford President’s research, colleagues allege
From stanforddaily.com
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Theo Baker
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Nov 17, 2025
Getting to this late but this is a must-read. Student journalists who focus day-and-night on their own communities can beat national publications on the same stories!
The Harvard Crimson
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Nov 17, 2025
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein. @dhruvtkpatel and @camsrivastava report. thecrimson.com/article/2025/1…
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Theo Baker
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Aug 12, 2024
.@Stanford finished with 39 medals at the Olympics. That puts it behind only five countries, with Italy just ahead at 40. Fear the tree.
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Theo Baker
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Mar 18, 2025
So I was on a flight into DCA tonight when we had to abruptly abort our landing because, the captain said, another smaller, slower craft had been routed directly in our path. Flight logs show we were just 200 feet above the ground.
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Theo Baker
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May 7, 2024
After a few days of this, I want to say something. For what it's worth, I took down my comments and apologized to Professor Jefferson two hours after sending them on Saturday. He sent back a very classy response today. I’m posting my email here and that’s the last I have to say.
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Theo Baker
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Nov 15, 2023
NEW: swastikas have appeared across campus @Stanford, popping up in several student residences and a library. “We write with some sickening news,” begins the letter from faculty living in one dorm.
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