Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Soviet immigrants have always had an implicit belief in the superiority of American institutions. It’s been a religious thing for them. But seeing themselves get swept up and demonized in this way has bred disillusionment and revulsion with American politics on a level I have never seen. By Yasha Levine.

Recent efforts to sandbag Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard are crude repeats of behaviors that helped elect Trump in 2016. By Matt Taibbi.

In an interview, one of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination discusses his long-held opposition to war and his support for socialist leaders. By Sydney Ember, for the former Samoza Guard.

The Hawaii congresswoman is quickly becoming the top candidate for Democrats who think the Russian leader is misunderstood. By Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein.

Moscow’s calculations may have changed regarding whom to support in the November 2020 ballot. By Janusz Bugajski.

The Mueller report and its potential implications have driven the network’s coverage—and monster ratings—for two years. Now it’s ended with a whimper, leaving execs in a bind. By Maxwell Tani, Lloyd Grove.

The whistleblower is back behind bars as the government continues to try to hide its crimes. By Chris Hedges.

Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media. By Matt Taibbi.

Because I’m not trying to get or keep a job, or maintain a “respectable” reputation, I’m free to call a spade a spade and a bunch of horseshit a bunch of horseshit. By CJ Hopkins.

The most challenging task is choosing the ten worst embarrassments. The most notable aspect is they all go toward promoting the same narrative. By Glenn Greenwald.

From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag: the American authors labelled enemies of the state. By Douglas Kennedy.

Who's that standing right behind you? Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. By Renee DiResta.

The arrangement was highly unusual, and it appeared to give Mr. Trump and his advisers ammunition in their public campaign against the special counsel investigation. By Michael S. Schmidt, Sharon LaFraniere, Maggie Haberman.

It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. By Jonathan Cook.

Even though a Russian agent, who is also literally Adolf Hitler, stole the election from Hillary Clinton, and is remaking America into a fascist dictatorship, the only recourse the “Resistance” has is to mount these congressional investigations and publicize them in excruciating detail until November 3, 2020, at which point all this “Fascism” hysteria will just disappear into the ether like the “War on Terror” hysteria did. By CJ Hopkins.

A recent purge by Facebook and Twitter of a host of independent media sites has pushed thousands of people out of work and has killed one of the most effective forms of expressing political dissent. [And you better not try to post this at Reddit, if you know what’s good for you.]

Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman to serve both the House and the Senate and always defended her values, even when it meant opposing her party. By Lorraine Boissoneault.

The kinds of antics Manafort and Cohen have been prosecuted for went unnoticed when Donald Trump was a donor to the Democratic and Republican parties, and if he had stayed in his Tower doling out campaign contributions, they still would be. By Jim Kavanagh.

In most cases, often for legal reasons and fear of reprisals from unions, industry officials denied the existence of a formal blacklist. Instead, the entertainment industries relied on lists compiled by such private citizen groups as… By Richard A. Schwartz.