Corrections

Corrections and right of reply

Every article here rests on documents a reader can open. When we get one wrong, the fix belongs on the page, not in a quiet edit.

How to submit a correction

Email [email protected] with the article URL, the sentence you believe is wrong, and — if you have it — the source that shows it, cited by publication, date, and page. A citation is what lets us check a claim instead of trading assertions.

What we commit to

• Substantive corrections are noted on the article itself with a dated line saying what changed, so a reader arriving later is not misled.
• Quotation errors are corrected first. If we attributed words to a source that the source did not say, that is the highest-severity error we can make, and it is corrected and noted the same day we confirm it.
• Right of reply. Anyone whose published claim we examine may respond, and we will publish the response or link to it.
• Sourced material is not removed because it is unwelcome. We will correct an error; we will not delete a documented quotation because someone would rather it were not on the record.

What a correction is not

Disagreement with our reading is not itself an error — point us at the page and make the argument. A correction is for a fact we got wrong, a quote we misattributed, or a source we misdescribed.