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J. Edgar Hoover
December 9, 2022
Magazine
Michael Kazin
J. Edgar Hoover’s Long Shadow
The FBI’s first director built the agency around some of his own worst instincts.
April 22, 2021
Santi Elijah Holley
The Black Panther Party Has Never Been More Popular. But Actual Black Panthers Have Been Forgotten.
While the Panthers have become a staple of pop culture, veteran members of the group remain invisible.
September 21, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Inside the FBI’s File on Soviet Poet-Dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies
March 19, 2018
Magazine
James Bamford
Anti-Intelligence
What happens when the president goes to war with his own spies?
February 7, 2018
Jeet Heer
The Menace of Trump Is Not McCarthyism, But Hooverism
Trump will become truly frightening if he moves beyond name-calling and starts abusing the powers of the state.
November 15, 2011
David Thomson
Thomson on Films: Clint Eastwood’s Disappointingly Cautious Depiction of J. Edgar Hoover
November 11, 2011
Timothy Noah
I Read The Nixon Grand Jury Transcript So You Don't Have To (Though You Should, Because It's Fun)
June 27, 2011
Kate Coleman
Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt: The Untold Story of the Black Panther Leader, Dead At 63
January 20, 2010
Martin Peretz
John Kerry and the Underbelly of History, John Kerry and the Underbelly of the Present
July 2, 2009
Christopher Orr
The Movie Review: 'Public Enemies'
August 13, 2008
Jack Goldsmith
Secrecy and Safety
February 3, 1986
Taylor Branch
Uneasy Holiday
How should we honor a man we still don't know?
December 25, 1961
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He Was a Man of Principle
July 26, 1948
Robert Hatch
Movies: Troubled Times
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