Inside the Department of Dirty Tricks
“The evidence, fragmentary as it is, suggests that the CIA customarily drew the line at what is commonly meant by the word ‘murder.’ However, in the late 1950s, the CIA began to get orders to kill people.”
160 Years of Atlantic Stories
A year-by-year catalogue of some of the magazine's most momentous work.
Soldiers of Misfortune
A report on the veterans of Vietnam—and on the often disgraceful treatment they have received from their countrymen.
Life on Mars
Space scientists won’t say so, but the results of three brilliantly conceived experiments lead inevitably to one startling conclusion: Life, in some form, exists on Mars.
CBS: The Power and the Profits
However the Toynbee or the Gibbon of the future adjudges what happened to American society, he will need to reckon large with the impact of radio and television.
The Man Who Runs the Senate
Robert Byrd, a little-known, fiddle-playing West Virginian, is the Senate’s Democratic whip, probably its next majority leader, and just possibly a favorite son at the 1976 Democratic Convention. Says he: “I believe that a big man can make a small job important.” Some of his colleagues think Byrd also proves the converse: that big job can help a small man to grow.
Burning Up People to Make Electricity
In Harlan County, Kentucky, are some of our country's richest natural resources—and some of its poorest people.
The Runaway Presidency
“Watergate is potentially the best thing to have happened to the presidency in a long time.”
The Pentagon Papers Trial
“Inevitably political, the Pentagon Papers case is a decisive test of the federal government's capacity to control the disclosure of information stamped ‘secret,’ of an individual’s right to defy the security classification system, and at least peripherally, of the press’s ability to rely on ‘leaks’ in government circles.”
Moving Toward the Clonal Man
Is this what we want?
Job Discrimination and What Women Can Do About It
“More women will have to become much more aggressive than they are at present if equal opportunity in employment is to be achieved.”