US Politics
Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA’s secret war...
By Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff
September 26, 2021
In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy...
Herd Immunity: Covid Deaths Devouring the South Are No Accident
For Scott Atlas, as for Republican governors like Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Tate Reeves, and Kay Ivey, the human cost of our shredded public...
Inside the Private Facebook Groups Where Anti-Vaxxers Plot to Get Religious...
“Find verses of the Bible that talk about our body being the temple of God.”
By Kiera Butler
September 24, 2021
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Plenty of Intelligence To Prevent 9/11
by Ray McGovern
Posted on September 13, 2021
Shortly before 9/11 the National Security Agency (NSA) asked Thomas Drake to join its senior staff. As...
The Labor Movement Is ‘Woking’ Itself to Death
By Wells King
Sep. 24, 2021
In hindsight, the biggest warning sign for the prospects of unionizing Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse was, well, a sign: a...
On the Cover of New York Magazine: the Revolt of New...
By Aude White
Sept. 13, 2021
New York City’s 65,000 delivery bikers move faster than just about anything else in the city—chasing tips, fearing penalties, targeted...
Mystery shrouds nonprofit linked to wealthy Chinese exile: Steve Bannon leaves,...
By Brian Schwartz
Aug 16 2021
The mystery surrounding a nonprofit group tied to wealthy Chinese exile Guo Wengui, reportedly the key figure in a network...
The Age of Irrationality
With the rise of QAnon and the anti-vax movement, skepticism has become the province of the paranoid.
By Katha Pollitt
Sep 20, 2021
I titled my first...
Nuclear Instability: Russia, China and the “USSR – II” scenario
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
As nuclear weapons stockpiles worldwide rise and countries upgrade their warheads and missiles there is an unprecedented need to de-escalate tensions and...
100 years since the Battle of Blair Mountain
By Andy Thompson, Jerry White
9 September 2021
This month marks the 100th anniversary since the end of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when...