"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.

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 did we build for ourselves our own better mousetrap, using our nature to do it? God only knows, and we are just his spies.

Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.

Egalitarian socialism in the 21st century. Politics and commentary from a Marx scholar in the rural South.

The history and politics of monopoly power.

A politics newsletter, written by Ryan Grim, DC bureau chief for The Intercept, 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.