Daniel Ellsberg

Exclusive interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and a long-buried memo reveal new details about one of the 20th century's biggest scoops.

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

On the moral courage of Daniel Ellsberg.

After revealing the government’s lies about Vietnam, Ellsberg spent six decades as an anti-nuclear activist, getting arrested in civil-disobedience protests.

Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum.

The man who changed America.

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended.

A relic of WWI that helped destroy the anti-war left, it remains a threat to news outlets, political organizers, and challengers of the surveillance state.

Efforts to clamp down on White House leaks to the press follow a pattern that was set during the Nixon era after the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?

If we want to avoid nuclear war, we'd better start imagining it again.

A historian reveals the crucial role that he played in helping Daniel Ellsberg leak the documents to journalists.

Leslie Gelb supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers. He explains what Steven Spielberg's new film gets wrong.

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.

We may be entering a post-Pentagon Papers era that shifts the power back to political elites, who are ever more emboldened to go after leakers.

The weapons infrastructure of the Cold War is now getting rented out on Airbnb or memorialized as patriotic kitsch.

In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.