ACLU investigation revealed fusion centers could access monitoring tech to target activists and journalists while racially profiling people deemed ‘suspicious.’ By Sam Levin.

The Democratic Party is doing incalculable damage to itself by shapeshifting into the party of baseless conspiracy theories, groundless accusations, and sour grapes. By Mike Whitney.

Reviving the art of threat inflation. By Andrew Cockburn.

The publicizing of an anonymous blacklist is a prime example of how fake real news on real fake news spreads without question. By Adam Johnson.

Blame the media, not Moscow. By Philip Giraldi.

With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. By Ben Norton, Glenn Greenwald.

Where’s the evidence? So much effort has been thrown at implicating the Russians in some way and none of the evidence has stuck — time and time again the evidence fizzles and people move onto the next big scandal that also evaporates on closer inspection… By Yasha Levine.

What I know now about Ted, whose photographs documented the 1960s, and about J. Edgar Hoover’s attempts to label him a Soviet spy. By Shirley Streshinsky. (June 6, 2016)

Nixon’s victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.

In ‘Patriotic Betrayal,’ author Karen M. Paget meticulously documents the agency’s long infiltration of student groups around the world. But she avoids the most important question: Why?