"Among the pious I am a scoffer; among the musical I am religious." —George Bernard Shaw, 1890

Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.

Who drives the war machines, and why.

politics, Russia, medicine and life.

The role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.

Authoritative journalism that seeks to clarify the causes of JFK's assassination and to abolish the official secrecy that still surrounds it

Useful Idiots is an informative and irreverent politics podcast.

cool but rude

Were we created, our species, to grow this large? Or have we built for ourselves our own better mousetrap? Only God knows. We are just his spies.

Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.

Politics and commentary from a socialist Marx scholar in the rural South. Lots of free content, subscribe for more!

The history and politics of monopoly power.

A politics newsletter, written by Ryan Grim, reporter and editor at Drop Site, co-host of Counter Points and Deconstructed, and author of the books "The Squad," "We've Got People," and "This Is Your Country On Drugs."

News and features by best-selling author and reporter Matt Taibbi, in an independent package molded after I.F. Stone's Weekly. The site contains investigative journalism, satirical commentary, and the America This Week podcast with novelist Walter Kirn.