With the approaching 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I reached for my grandfather’s memoirs, For the Record. In August 1945, Felix Morley was the former editor of the Washington Post who had founded a publication called Human Events, a journal of conservative and libertarian thought. He recalled that the end of World...
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Key Trump Intel Nominee Defends ‘Fascist’ Portland Tactics
The Trump administration’s war on the so-called “deep state” has achieved some success. This isn’t the stuff of conspiracy theories. It’s the stuff of congressional hearings and presidential nominations. There is an ongoing struggle for control of the U.S. intelligence community, and Trump has made real but limited progress in bending the intelligence agencies to...
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The Politics of the Five Eyes
[Inside the Five Eyes series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3| Part 4 is below] The global Five Eyes signals intelligence network is now woven, almost invisibly, into the policy and politics of the English-speaking world. Its leaders are almost never seen in public. The first time that representatives of all five partners of...
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The End of the Affair: JFK and Mary Meyer
“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes. In the 1960s, the New Journalists adopted the techniques of novelists to spice up their reporting. Author Jesse Kornbluth offers a 21st century variation. He imports the apparatus of academia to give ballast to the true tale of a...
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Who Is John Durham and Why Is He Investigating the CIA?
John Durham’s name floats in and out of news cycle, a phantom figure who presence is fleeting but significant. Durham is the career Justice Department attorney, assigned by Attorney General William Barr, to investigate the origins of the FBI”s investigation of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian state agents. In right-wing media Durham is...