What Is Fascism?
Everyone throws the word around. We go to the actual definitions — the playbook, the warning signs, and where the hysteria gets it wrong.
Some stories take more than one episode to pull apart. These are the running threads — the wars, the cover-ups, and the slow-motion scandals we keep coming back to. Pick one and follow the money.
Everyone throws the word around. We go to the actual definitions — the playbook, the warning signs, and where the hysteria gets it wrong.
The graveyard of empires, twenty years of war, and a withdrawal nobody would explain honestly. We follow the money.
China and the Uighurs — the competing narratives, and how to tell genuine reporting from information warfare.
Lithium, a coup nobody would call a coup, and Evo Morales. What actually happened, and who needed the story told a certain way.
The biggest leak in history, the machine for hiding money offshore, and why the story quietly vanished from the front page.
The longest, most expensive, least successful war in modern history — who profits from keeping it going, and the propaganda that sells it.
Proxy wars, managed "sources," and competing narratives — we untangle who was actually fighting whom, and who needed the story told a certain way.
How bad science, grifters, and engagement algorithms turned vaccine fear into a business model. The studies, the "experts," and the money.
Past the both-sides spin: what the headlines about China leave out, and which domestic agenda each scare story is really serving.
The war, the wire reports, and the anonymous officials. We follow the footnotes back to the funding and the strategy nobody states out loud.
Coups, cut-outs, and convenient leaks — the agency's long history of writing the first draft of history, and the press that printed it.