On Blacklists and Russia "Hacking" American Democracy

It’s been the same story over and over and over again. You’d think that the bubble would deflate at some point. But no, it just keeps on going.

With yet another round of spy-fed “Russia is subverting our democracy” stories hitting this week — this time with a totally bullshit Daily Beast smear job about Russian agents supposedly infiltrating lefty publications like Jacobin and In These Times, implying that Russia and the left shared some sort of dangerous anti-American political vision — I took…