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November 25, 2019
Andrew Lanham
Jack Ryan, American Imperialist
The Amazon show is a plea to set democracy aside and let national security experts run the world.
November 8, 2019
Jefferson Morley
The “Deep State” Is a Political Party
As an impeachment crisis looms, CIA and FBI veterans are taking a troubling lead in opposing Trump at the ballot box.
October 23, 2019
Jared Keller
The Weapons America Is Leaving Behind in Syria
Trump’s hasty troop withdrawal could trigger a second "industrial revolution" in terrorism.
July 3, 2019
Magazine
J.C. Pan
Democratic Rot and the Origins of American Conspiracism
Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.
April 10, 2019
Jefferson Morley
The Growing Obsession With Linking Iran to Terrorism
Iran has not posed a serious terror threat to the United States since the 1980s. Sunni terrorism, on the other hand, has.
February 7, 2019
Magazine
Alex Press
Big Tech’s Unholy Alliance With the Pentagon
Why Google and other firms still cling to their military contracts
May 14, 2018
Caroline Lester
The CIA Spy Who Became a Russian Propagandist
For John Kiriakou—as well as several of his American colleagues across the political spectrum—working for a Russian radio network is where he feels most free.
March 23, 2018
Amar Diwakar
Saffron Curtain: How Buddhism Was Weaponized During the Cold War
The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today.
March 19, 2018
Magazine
James Bamford
Anti-Intelligence
What happens when the president goes to war with his own spies?
March 15, 2018
Marcy Wheeler
Congressional Oversight of the Intelligence Community Is Broken
The response to the Russia investigation and Gina Haspel’s CIA nomination reveals a watchdog complicit in protecting the president from accountability.
March 13, 2018
Sarah Jones
Gina Haspel, Trump’s pick to head the CIA, played a leading role in Bush’s torture regime.
March 13, 2018
Alex Shephard
Rex Tillerson just got brutally dumped from the White House.
January 9, 2018
Marcy Wheeler
Congress’s Absurd Quest to Curb the Surveillance State
In attempting to both appease the intelligence community and ostensibly roll back its powers, lawmakers are making a mockery of the reform effort.
January 3, 2018
Sarah Jones
Did
The New York Times
bury stories that cast doubt on Bush’s Iraq War push?
December 15, 2017
Steven Cohen
FIFA’s Dirty Wars
A corruption trial in Brooklyn reveals the deep connections between the old dictatorships of Latin America and soccer’s global governing body.
September 15, 2017
Clio Chang
People like Chelsea Manning have always been unwelcome at places like Harvard.
August 25, 2017
Marcy Wheeler
The Senate Wants to Prevent Russia From Compromising U.S. Elections. Does Trump?
Lawmakers are finally getting serious about cybersecurity, but a proposed bill would also limit the president’s ability to cozy up to the Russians.
May 23, 2017
Brian Beutler
If you’re running interference for Donald Trump, you’ll eventually beclown yourself like Trey Gowdy just did.
May 23, 2017
Jeet Heer
Russia’s interference in the election worked out great for the Russians.
May 12, 2017
Magazine
Laura Reston
Russia Has Weaponized Fake News to Sow Chaos
The Kremlin's influence campaign goes far beyond Trump's victory. Their latest unsuspecting targets: American conservatives.
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