[September 1933]
What Hitler Wants
By Leon Trotsky
[August 1941]
Who Goes Nazi?
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi.
By Dorothy Thompson
[March 1968]
The Steps of the Pentagon
A documentary report about the famous Washington weekend during which thousands of Americans marched across the Potomac in the name of peace, and some—the author among them—ended in jail.
By Norman Mailer
[May 1970]
My Lai 4
A report on the massacre and its aftermath.
By Seymour M. Hersh
[March 1974]
The Death of Salvador Allende
By Gabriel García Márquez
[January 1975]
Sirhan’s Gun
Further inquiries into the assassination of Robert Kennedy.
By Betsy Langman and Alexander Cockburn
[May 1975]
Vietnam Cover-Up
Playing war with numbers.
By Sam Adams
[December 1990]
Questions of Conquest
What Columbus wrought, and what he did not.
By Mario Vargas Llosa
[April 1993]
The Last Shot
At Abraham Lincoln High School, black kids play basketball for love, a college scholarship, and—if they can beat the odds—a way out.
By Darcy Frey
[September 2006]
Misinformation Intern
My summer as a military propagandist in Iraq.
By Willem Marx
[March 2010]
The Guantánamo “Suicides”
A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle.
By Scott Horton
[March 2014]
Nothing Left
The long, slow surrender of American liberals.
By Adolph Reed Jr.
[July 2018]
As Goes the South, So Goes the Nation
History haunts, but Alabama changes.
By Imani Perry