A strange fever overcame American voters in late 2016. Something that could have only resulted from our blindness to history. Something that makes us rethink the very foundations of our… Read more »

It’s 1968. J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI is working overtime to suppress the gathering momentum of the Black Power movement. Under the aegis of COINTELPRO (for the Bureau’s Counter Intelligence Program), agents and… Read more »

The FBI has been investigating a Buffalo, New York bookstore owner for two years, under suspicion that he has been “operating an eco-terrorism cell out of Burning Books, his West… Read more »

Two weeks ago, the National Security Archive’s Lauren Harper wrote a fascinating op-ed in Al Jazeera America (RIP!) called “The CIA torture report belongs to the public.” Since our publication… Read more »

As an author, you want to cultivate obsessive fans—fans who will buy each of your books in hardcover and patiently wait for hours to have you sign them without then… Read more »

In Prospect Magazine this week, Andy Martin writes about the files that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover kept on both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus after 1945. Sartre was involved in… Read more »

Recently released documents have revealed that the FBI and the US State Department closely monitored the activity of the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whom they regarded as a communist and… Read more »

“It’s as if George Bush had gotten a fourth term” — a sickeningly true observation made all the more sickening by the fact that it was made by no less… Read more »

Jack Shafer has high praise for a new book about Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s Watergate reporting and their most famous source, W. Mark Felt. The book is Leak: Why… Read more »