Legacy of Secrecy - The Long Shadow of the Jfk Assassination

Forty years ago, a majority of Americans were highly engaged in issues of war and peace. Whether to go to war or keep out of conflicts was a vital question at the heart of the country s vibrant, if fractious, democracy. But American political...

State secrecy is increasingly used as the explanation for the shrinking of public discussion surrounding national security issues. The phrase that s classified is increasingly used not to protect national secrets from legitimate enemies, but rather...

Daniel Domscheit-Berg was, until recently, the WikiLeaks spokesman, and public face. He is now the best-placed manin the world to provide an insight into its secrets. In Inside WikiLeaks, he will reveal the evolution, finances and innertensions of...

In the 1970s Americans learned for the first time that they had been used for decades as unsuspecting guinea pigs in a series of astonishing experiments conducted by the US Army. Military researchers had been secretly spraying clouds of bacteria over...

A Guardian best history book of 2016 Every family has its skeletons, but in 1823 the grand Wallop family was about to share theirs with the world. The 3rd earl of Portsmouth was a peculiar man but, by most accounts, a harmless one. An aristocrat of...

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, and the agitation so...