I'm Helene Cooper.
I cover the US military for the New York Times.
So I'm sitting in my car in a parking lot outside the Pentagon.
I had a cubicle with a desk inside the building for years,
but the Trump administration has taken that away.
People in power have always made it difficult for journalists.
It hasn't stopped us in the past.
It's not going to stop us now.
I will keep working to get you the facts This work doesn't happen without subscribers to The New York Times.
Hey, it's Rachel.
So we are working on another special bonus episode for subscribers,
where we take you behind the scenes here at The New York Times.
So far, we've talked to editors who make the game section,
we've talked to composers who make our amazing music here at The Daily,
and most recently, we talked to our new restaurant critics.
And for this next bonus episode,
We want to learn about a section of the paper that people don't talk about quite as much.
It's been around since 1851,
and of all the Desks of the New York Times, it might be the most mysterious.
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