How the president has used William Barr and other officials to turn the government into his personal fiefdom

In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.

Thirty-four years after the prime minister was murdered, Sweden has identified his assassin. But the case is by no means concluded.

Gina Haspel is not a typical Trump toady, but recent moves suggest a dangerous dynamic between the runaway president and his spy agency.

The new movie about the Torture Report has to take on people who still wield enormous influence.

The Amazon show is a plea to set democracy aside and let national security experts run the world.

As an impeachment crisis looms, CIA and FBI veterans are taking a troubling lead in opposing Trump at the ballot box.

Trump’s hasty troop withdrawal could trigger a second "industrial revolution" in terrorism.

Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.

Iran has not posed a serious terror threat to the United States since the 1980s. Sunni terrorism, on the other hand, has.

Why Google and other firms still cling to their military contracts

For John Kiriakou—as well as several of his American colleagues across the political spectrum—working for a Russian radio network is where he feels most free.

The U.S. tried to foment an anti-communist Buddhist bloc in Southeast Asia—with deadly consequences for the region’s politics today.

What happens when the president goes to war with his own spies?

The response to the Russia investigation and Gina Haspel’s CIA nomination reveals a watchdog complicit in protecting the president from accountability.

In attempting to both appease the intelligence community and ostensibly roll back its powers, lawmakers are making a mockery of the reform effort.

A corruption trial in Brooklyn reveals the deep connections between the old dictatorships of Latin America and soccer’s global governing body.