cover story
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If Spielberg’s earlier UFO movies gave us awe, comfort and catastrophe, this one feels like an encounter of a fourth kind: What happens when the cover story breaks?
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
In reality, it’s a cover story people use to dress up views — like advocating teen pregnancy — they can’t argue for directly in public.
From Salon • Apr. 20, 2026
The conservative journalist Christopher Caldwell penned a cover story last week for the Spectator magazine titled “The End of Trumpism.”
From Slate • Mar. 23, 2026
He later told her that identity was a cover story and in fact he was working for the intelligence services.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
Only a few weeks after the Time cover story, however, the locomotive of adoration was sidelined by a more substantial critique.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
