Valorizing an ex-CIA director and bashing Trump obscures what is truly ominous. By Stephen F. Cohen.

Despite efforts to make the state’s voting system sound, there are pressing problems, which, should they persist, will have a disastrous impact on the state and the nation. By Jacob Bacharach.

Oh, and buy their books! By Eoin Higgins.

Hazel Scott was a piano prodigy who wowed the worlds of music, TV and film. But when she stood up for her rights, the establishment took her down. By Lorissa Rinehart.

Anyone who tells you the recent escalation of censorship by U.S. tech giants is merely a reflection of private companies making independent decisions is either lying or dangerously ignorant. By Michael Krieger.

How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything. By Matt Taibbi.

The fact that they started with a widely reviled speaker shouldn’t matter, the argument goes, because sooner or later the powerful people who are able to censor will begin censoring in the interests of power. By Caitlin Johnstone.

Trump may be paranoid, but he has real enemies among the emeriti of the intelligence establishment, and among them are the authors of three new books that collectively have sold up to a million copies: James Clapper, Michael Hayden, and James Comey. By Tim Weiner.

The conspiratorial mindset seeing Russia behind everything is increasingly a tool to demonize the establishment’s political enemies. By Alan MacLeod.

John Frankenheimer

Amid a split in the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton headlined an event that was part music festival, part TED Talk. We went with two hosts from Chapo Trap House to check it out. By Jamie Peck.

The Jimmy Dore Show

Any Russian interference is only a small part of the “election meddling” we should care about… By Lyle Jeremy Rubin.

Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola are joined by Aaron Maté, a host and producer for The Real News. He has regularly covered "Russiagate" and all the media coverage around President Donald Trump and Russia for well over a year.

How Liberals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New McCarthyism. By CJ Hopkins.

Madeleine Albright and Timothy Snyder have each written a book about the current threat to democracy, but do they have their history wrong? By Richard J Evans.

Here it comes, the moment we’ve been waiting for, when Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki to officially launch the Destruction of Democracy, and very possibly the Apocalypse itself. That’s right, folks, once again, it appears we’re looking at the end of everything… By CJ Hopkins.

The Atlantic Council will help Facebook identify emerging threats and disinformation campaigns around the world.

Disinformation is not going to slink away, vampire-style, in the face of sunlight. By Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery.

Ex-NSA chief says Americans have been conned by Russia and Trump and should look to intel community for salvation. By Peter Van Buren.