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the Republican is foe to Black people; the Democrats possess Black loyalty notwithstanding their neglect of those most loyal constituents.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“Donald Trump is out of time,” concludes the Daily Beast’s Goldie Taylor. “There may be three months to go until Election Day. But the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is all but over.” “Is
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Over the next decade, a few journalists would regret their failure to expose firsthand evidence of Hoover’s penchant for spy vendettas above public service. (“I didn’t do my job,” recalled David Kraslow of the Los Angeles Times. “I should have blown the thing sky high, but I didn’t.”)
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
When Hitler seized Poland in 1939, the region of western Ukraine known as Galicia that had until then been under Polish control suddenly fell to Moscow. Stalin and his Ukrainian Communist Party subordinate Nikita Khrushchev wasted no time in purging the region of anyone who might possibly fight the Soviet Union’s annexation: farmers who resisted co
... See moreAndy Greenberg • Sandworm
The Bin Ladens built the bases. A Bin Laden would seek to destroy them. Osama bin Laden issued his “Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places” in 1996, after the Dhahran bombing. On the face of it, this seemed an absurdly imbalanced war: an exile living in a cave complex in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, taking on
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
paranoia about the government has increasingly migrated from the Left—which blamed the military-industrial complex for Vietnam—to the Right, with alt-right trolls and Republican members of Congress now blaming the so-called deep state for plotting against the president.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
In January 2016, there’s an Internet smear directed against a Hollywood film based on a true-life story. The film is 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. It tells the personal stories of three CIA operators who heroically helped fight off Islamic extremist attackers on September 11, 2012.