To remove Donald Trump from office, the American media have abandoned their commitment to truth-telling. From “Russian collusion” to “the Mueller investigation” to the impeachment fiasco and the coronavirus, Victor Davis Hanson, writing in American Greatness, chronicles how his fellow-citizens have reacted to the years-long litany of error and falsehood.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


