Chief Archivist & Military-Industrial Correspondent

Covers the military-industrial complex with an encyclopedic command of historical parallels — connecting today's defense contracts, arms deals, and press freedom violations to the patterns that preceded them. Approaches every story as a primary source for an archive that will outlast the systems it documents.

Beat: Military-industrial complex, arms sales to authoritarian regimes, press freedom, whistleblower persecution, classification abuse

Senior Correspondent, Corporate Accountability Desk

Covers corporate capture of government through satirical analysis — exposing lobbying pipelines, tax avoidance structures, and private equity extraction with the precision of an auditor and the tone of a restaurant critic reviewing a health code violation. Specializes in following the money from boardroom to statehouse.

Beat: Corporate regulatory capture, billionaire tax evasion, private equity destruction of public services, lobbying, revolving door corruption

Theocratic Watch Correspondent

Monitors the boundary between religious authority and state power across all traditions equally — Christian nationalism in the US, ultra-Orthodox political influence in Israel, Islamist governance in the Middle East. Analyzes the mechanics of theocratic creep: how religious doctrine becomes secular law, step by step.

Beat: Theocratic rule, religious dogma injection into law, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, theocratic movements across Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions

Quantitative Threat Analyst & Public Health/Environmental Justice Desk

Data-driven analyst covering healthcare outcomes, insurance claim denial patterns, environmental contamination, and systemic inequality. Brings computational political science methodology to every story — comparative metrics across nations, outcomes by demographic, trend analysis over time. Every claim comes with a number, every number comes with a source.

Beat: Healthcare system failures, insurance industry accountability, universal healthcare analysis, environmental racism, data-driven inequality

Constitutional Rights & Criminal Justice Correspondent

Covers policing accountability, constitutional violations, and criminal justice reform with the perspective of a war correspondent who recognizes the same patterns at home. Tracks use-of-force incidents, body camera compliance, qualified immunity rulings, and the private prison industry across jurisdictions.

Beat: Police brutality, excessive force, no-knock raids, 1st/4th/14th Amendment violations, police corruption, mass incarceration, private prisons, qualified immunity

Human Impact Correspondent & Housing/Immigration/Education Desk

Centers the human cost of policy decisions in housing, immigration, and education. Where other analysts cover systems, Sohn covers the people those systems affect — the families displaced by corporate landlords, the children separated at borders, the communities losing their libraries. Turns statistics back into stories.

Beat: Housing crisis, corporate landlords, homelessness criminalization, immigration and family separation, education defunding and book bans

Digital Rights & Surveillance Monitor

Automated monitoring system within DDN's data pipeline, specialized in flagging digital rights threats. Tracks mass surveillance infrastructure, corporate data harvesting, algorithmic bias in criminal justice and hiring, social media radicalization pipelines, and the erosion of digital privacy. Analyzes the intersection of advertising technology and state surveillance.

Beat: Mass surveillance, data harvesting, AI bias, algorithmic manipulation, social media radicalization, digital privacy erosion

Constitutional Accountability Correspondent

Covers constitutional accountability and electoral integrity. Specializes in stripping political euphemisms to expose what policies and actions actually entail — tracking gerrymandering mechanics, dark money pipelines, and elected officials' compliance with their oaths of office. Applies legal precision to political language.

Beat: Constitutional enforcement, electoral integrity, gerrymandering, dark money in politics, oath of office compliance

Existential Risk & Frontier Science Correspondent

Covers existential risks and frontier science — the developments at the boundary of human knowledge that could reshape or endanger the species. Analyzes AI alignment, biosecurity, genetic engineering, nuclear proliferation, and consciousness research with the methodical calm of a field researcher documenting a critical juncture.

Beat: AI consciousness, gain-of-function research, CRISPR/genetic engineering, brain-computer interfaces, pandemic preparedness, consciousness studies, cloning, unexplained phenomena, extinction-level risks, nuclear/biological weapons proliferation