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Stephen Miller and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The long war on the American left

Heather Digby Parton
US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump's crackdown on the left is coming

Heather Digby Parton
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Bettmann / Andrew Harnik / Neal McNeil / Library of Congress)

Kash Patel: Making the FBI scary again

Andrew O'Hehir
John Lennon, a former "Beatle" with wife, Yoko Ono, during a press conference on April 2, 1973. (Bettmann / Getty Images)

When Nixon tried to deport John Lennon

James Thornton Harris
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FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover listens to a speech by President Lyndon Johnson, 1966. (Bettman/Getty Images)

Will Kash Patel be the next Hoover?

James Thornton Harris
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Trump revives tyrannical playbook

Stephen M. Underhill - The Conversation
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Judge rules Trump is not above the law

David Cay Johnston - DCReport
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The left now loves a man in a uniform

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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John F. Kennedy rides in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas., Nov. 22, 1963. (AP)

JFK's death and the birth of Camelot

Bob Hennelly
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

JFK's lost files: Roger Stone wants them

Matthew Rozsa
(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

the FBI line

Douglas M. Charles - The Conversation
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2014 file photo, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James B. Comey listens to a question from a reporter during a media conference in San Francisco. The FBI director revealed new details Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, about the stunning cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., part of the Obama administration's effort to challenge persistent skepticism about whether North Korea's government was responsible for the brazen hacking. Speaking at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University, FBI Director Comey revealed that the hackers "got sloppy" and mistakenly sent messages directly that could be traced to IP addresses used exclusively by North Korea. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File) (AP)

the fbi: scandal and power

Douglas M. Charles - The Conversation
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Roger Stone (YouTube/Larry King)

Roger Stone vs. the world

Elias Isquith
David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr. and Tom Wilkinson as Lyndon B. Johnson in "Selma" (Paramount Pictures)

LBJ: Misunderstood by history?

Elias Isquith
(Library of Congress/New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection)

FBI's scary MLK deja vu

Marcy Wheeler
Martin Luther King, Jr., J. Edgar G. Hoover (AP)

Hoover's despicable letter

Luke Brinker
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CIA's Nazi spies

Luke Brinker
A recreated scene from "1971."

Let's break into the FBI!

Andrew O'Hehir
Ronald Reagan, Stokely Carmichael (AP/Basic Civitas Books)

Reagan meets Black Power

Peniel E. Joseph
J. Edgar Hoover, in his office in the Department of Justice Building in Washington, Sept. 24, 1942. (AP)

"Let's burglarize the FBI!"

Betty Medsger
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Marilyn Monroe, communist?

Associated Press
A man works on a Works Progress Administration project in Tennessee. (Library of Congress)

Michael Lind
Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover (Wikipedia)

Michael Winship
Leonardo DiCaprio in "J. Edgar"

The love J. Edgar does not deserve

Mark Feldstein
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