**A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021"An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." —The New York Times"One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era." —New York MagazineAn examination of the profound impact that the...

**A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021"An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." —The New York Times"One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era." —New York MagazineAn examination of the profound impact that the...

THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COMIC BOOK MAGAZINE!From Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award-winning reporter Spencer Ackerman (Waller Vs. WildStorm, Iron Man) comes the next generation of political radicalism in vigilante comics—unafraid to strike back at the deportation machine that threatens the foundations of American freedom!When agents of the fearsome Special Naturalization Operations (SNO) become themselves hunted by a mas...

The world's most dangerous comic book magazine returns!As The Dialectic’s rampage against the federal agents of SNO heats up, Agents Mike D’Angelo and Ric Rodriguez are at odds on how to fight back.An old-school creature of deep-state subterfuge, Mike would prefer a softer touch, while Ric is eager to crack some commie skulls and take no prisoners. But in the race to unmask and neutralize this murderous vigilante before his message spreads, who will be caug...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, the story of an immigrant father and the radicalized son he lost—first to al-Qaeda, then to two decades in CIA black sites and Guantanamo Bay’s notorious Camp VII—a landmark work of investigative reporting that uncovers the operational heart of the War on Terror and the lives of the world’s most wanted terrorists within itWhen Majid Khan landed a lucrative data entry job straight out of his Baltimore high sch...

A new, brutal era begins for the Golden Avenger! With his company restored, Tony Stark's first order of business is getting Stark Unlimited back out of the weapons game. But a multinational company doesn't just stop selling weapons overnight, and the board is more concerned with profit margins than super-hero ethics. Now they've made a deal with the devil: Stark Unlimited is for sale, and the highest bidder represents the combined might of Tony's two biggest competitors, Roxxon and A.I.M.!...

Continuing a back-to-basics new era for the Golden Avenger! After witnessing firsthand the devastation of war, Tony Stark famously divested his company from the weapons trade. Then Orchis and Feilong came along, and a furious Iron Man watched them dismantle his legacy. Now Stark Unlimited is going back to its roots as Tony publicly announces a full-scale return to weapons manufacturing! What?! Why is Iron Man meeting with rebels outside Latveria? Why is the Winter Guard after him (this tim...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Spencer Ackerman, the story of an immigrant father and the radicalized son he lost—first to al-Qaeda, then to two decades in CIA black sites and Guantanamo Bay’s notorious Camp VII—a landmark work of investigative reporting that uncovers the operational heart of the War on Terror and the lives of the world’s most wanted terrorists within itWhen Majid Khan landed a lucrative data entry job straight out of his Baltimore high sch...

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction...

A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power—and how its legacies shape our world today—told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine.Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Bestselling books were written about him. Hollywood adored him. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went—serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 unt...

The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bon...

A prize-winning historian’s major new history of the Second World War, arguing that Stalin’s USSR was the war’s driving force.**“A provocative revisionist take on the Second World War … McMeekin is a formidable researcher.” —**Financial TimesWe remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and the Allied powers saving the day. But Hitler’s armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his emp...