Activism / September 8, 2026 How Homeland Security has adopted the COINTELPRO playbook. Ad Policy Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1953.(Hulton Archive / Getty Images) COINTELPRO is back. The worst of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s dreadful operations, COINTELPRO included criminal attacks against Americans whose opinions he opposed.
In 1965, The American Scholar published an essay on morality by Joan Didion. As a matter of substance, what she turned in was not compelling—at least not to those of us who believe, contra Didion, that it is possible to discern good and evil in the world with reference to
In this file photo, Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally on Aug. 31, 2026 in Kerrville, Texas. Labor Day often marks the unofficial kickoff of general election campaigning. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images Democratic enthusiasm and President Trump’s unpopular second term
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