Who do you trust? By Michael Howard.

Behold, virtuous American republic, the degradation Vladimir Putin has in store for you! By Yasha Levine.

We don’t need to traffic in conspiracy theories to realize how outrageous Trump is. By Masha Gessen.

Irritating left-wing guys have ruined democracy, apparently. Which might suggest it wasn't doing so great before. By Andrew O'Hehir.

Misreporting in Syria and Iraq. By.Patrick Cockburn.

It seems so strange, twenty-seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to be living through a new Cold War with (as it happens, capitalist) Russia… By Gary Leupp.

Few behaviors are more dangerous than escalating tensions between these two nuclear-armed powers. By Glenn Greenwald.

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the former German newspaper editor whose bestselling book exposed how the CIA controls German media, has been found dead. By Baxter Dmitry.

Shared information could be leaked to Russia and onward to Iran, American officials implied to Israelis in closed meeting, saying Kremlin has 'leverages of pressure' over Trump, Ronen Bergman reports.

Trump’s critics can do him no bigger favor than using dubious, discredited tactics to attack him. By Glenn Greenwald.

A close reading of the intelligence report on Russian interference in the US election shows that it does nothing to clarify the abnormalities of Trump’s campaign and election. Instead, it suggests that the US intelligence agencies’ Russia expertise is weak. By Masha Gessen.

America’s case against the Kremlin suffers from major flaws that should be acknowledged, even by those who argue that Russia hacked U.S. democratic institutions, says Kevin Rothrock.

“The media never intended to learn anything from Iraq except how to better peddle fables, and it hasn’t even learned that.” By Jason Hirthler.

In the current D.C. climate on Russia, all relevant journalistic incentives encourage and reward false news. By Glenn Greenwald.

White House claims Alisa Shevchenko was involved in hacking the US election but in an interview she says authorities misinterpreted facts or were fooled. By Shaun Walker and Sam Thielman.

In which the snake begins eating itself. By Adam Johnson.

And the U.S. is in the unaccustomed position of being seriously behind its adversaries. By Brad Allenby and Joel Garreau, co-directors of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative.

The U.S. government's technical report on Russian hacking identifies a tool that is readily available. By Leonid Bershidsky.

False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid. By Glenn Greenwald.

Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment. By Matt Taibbi.