Lance Mannion: Lincoln and the Bushes.

TomDispatch: The Pentagon, first, last, and always.

Our Future: Betsy DeVos is gone, but her education agenda is rolling out across the country.

Jacobin: Newly obtained FBI files shed new light on the murder of Fred Hampton.

McSweeney's: I’m all for letting the free market decide things unless it decides to stop publishing racist children’s books.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.