Assistant Washington Editor

Michael Kranish is deputy chief of the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau. Kranish has covered national politics, the White House, and Congress. He co-authored the Globe’s biography of Senator John F. Kerry and authored a book about Thomas Jefferson.
Broken City
A look inside an industry of distortion, where unnamed corporations pay richly to bend the debate their way.
The Boston Regional Intelligence Center and the Commonwealth Fusion Center were never informed that FBI agents had looked at Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s activities.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was named on two government watch lists, raising questions about whether a communications breakdown allowed the bomb plot to go undetected.
Conservative Republicans feel that the alleged participation of ethnic Chechen brothers in the Marathon attack shows the need for slowing down or halting the bill.