A popular symbol of protest today, Guy Fawkes was first the face of treason because of his role in the murderous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. By James Sharpe.

Now we have been given what was left out in 1989: the original sin that poisoned relations between Iran and the US. By Andrew Bacevich.

Jason Hernandez, Sam Richards, Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, DEF CON 25

Wilde's first play, ‘Vera; or the Nihilists,’ is rarely written about or staged. By Jennifer Wilson.

How an inmate hacker hid computers in the ceiling and turned his prison upside down. By Colin Lecher.

For long-serving spy Gjorgi Lazarevski, a 2010 raid on one of Macedonia’s few remaining independent TV stations was the last straw. Gjorgi Lazarevski, a former Macedonian intelligence officer who helped expose a massive wiretapping scheme that brought down the government. By Borjan Jovanovski.

The oral history of how a determined Chicago reporter convinced her boss to do something that hadn’t been done before—to create a fake business with a real location. By Andy Wright.

How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? Writer Sarah Laskow digs into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Soviets—even after he confessed to it.

The violence that shocked the world in 1994 did not come from nowhere. For years, violent Tutsi rebels, backed by Uganda in full knowledge of the CIA, had been preparing for war. By Helen C. Epstein.

The story of Tom Corbally, a private investigator whose career crisscrossed continents and spanned decades, is its own secret history of the 20th century. By Eamon Javers.

Mark Felt wasn’t out to protect American democracy; he was out to get a promotion. By Max Holland.

And why it ultimately benefitted terrorists like Al Qaeda. By Gareth Porter.

The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins. By Adam Green. (Jan. 7, 2013)

Intelligence agencies spy on us, and Trevor Paglen spies on them. His images, on show at the Photographers’ Gallery, shine a light on the shadow world of government surveillance. By Charlie McCann (May 19, 2016)

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it. By John Woodrow Cox.

We might assume that philosophy is an ivory tower discipline that has little effect on the unlovely operations of government, driven as they are by the concerns of middle class wallets, upper class stock portfolios, and the ever-present problem of poverty. But we would be wrong. By Josh Jones.

While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible. By Michael Waters.

Freshly-released CIA documents show how the largest U.S. newspapers helped the agency contain a groundbreaking exposé. By Ryan Devereaux. (Sept. 25, 2014)

People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them. By Adrienne LaFrance.

The Washington Post has been one of the two main establishment papers in the U.S. for a while. But it’s gotten ridiculously pro-intelligence community in the last couple of years...