Andy Kroll, TomDispatch

Andy Kroll

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Past articles by Andy:

The American War from Hell, 20 Years Later

Who remembers anymore that, in 2003, we were Vladimir Putin? Today, our cable and social-media news feeds are blanketed with denunciations of the president of the Russian Federation for his lawless and brutal invasion of Ukraine. → Read More

Lessons Learned in the Internet’s Darkest Corners

We all do it. Make little snap judgments about everyday strangers as we go about our lives. Without giving it a second’s thought, we sketch minibiographies of the people we pass on the sidewalk, the → Read More

Leonard Leo’s Latest Supreme Court Play

The conservative activist’s dark money network is bankrolling groups pressing the high court to gut election, affirmative action, and discrimination laws. → Read More

Your Factoids Against Mine

For about a week in the summer of 2018, I caught an early-morning train from Washington, D.C., to the Albert V. Bryan federal courthouse in the suburb of Alexandria. Located a short drive from George → Read More

Mike Flynn's 'Digital Soldiers' Wage Conspiracy Warfare

Yes, we live in an ever more frightening country. During the pandemic years, Americans went wild buying guns, nearly 20 million of them yearly (and, mind you, such weaponry has only gotten ever more destructive). → Read More

Mike Flynn's 'Digital Soldiers' Wage Conspiracy Warfare

Yes, we live in an ever more frightening country. During the pandemic years, Americans went wild buying guns, nearly 20 million of them yearly (and, mind you, such weaponry has only gotten ever more destructive). → Read More

America's Forever Wars Go Viral

The three men and three women stood with their right arms raised. Behind them the remains of the daylight hued the sky a bluish gray. As a fire danced at their feet, they gazed straight → Read More

Barre Seid’s “Attack Philanthropy”

Leonard Leo’s billionaire benefactor has for years quietly financed efforts to attack climate science and shape the higher education system. → Read More

Pro-MAGA D.C. Cop Secretly Worked to Undermine Seth Rich Investigation

A hard-nosed federal prosecutor was determined to figure out who killed the 27-year-old Democratic National Committee staffer. But someone with access to the case file had a different agenda → Read More

Inside The Right’s Billion-Dollar Dark Money Transfer

An ultra-secretive businessman gave the largest known donation to a political advocacy group in U.S history to fund the architect of conservatives’ Supreme Court takeover. → Read More

“Big Lie” Vigilantism Is on the Rise. Big Tech Is Failing to Respond.

Stolen-election activists and Trump supporters have embraced a new tactic in their campaign to unearth supposed proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential race: using social media to chase down a fictional breed of fraudster known as a “ballot mule.” → Read More

FBI Docs Reveal Double Standard on Jan. 6 Planners, BLM Activists

The bureau says it lacked the authority to monitor social media activity ahead of the pro-Trump insurrection, but it did exactly that during 2020 racial justice and police violence protests → Read More

Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Is Still Plotting to Overturn 2020 Election

Conservative lawyer has a new strategy for his election-fraud crusade — pushing Wisconsin Republicans to ‘decertify’ Biden’s win → Read More

How Joe Manchin Walked Away From Saving Democracy

Joe Biden promised to fix voting rights. The senator from West Virginia had other ideas → Read More

The Totally Dodgy Backstory of the Bank that Just Refinanced Trump Tower

How Axos — a financial firm tied to GOP politics and high-profile lawsuits — became the Trumps’ lender of last resort → Read More

It's Not Just Gas Prices. Biden's Russian Energy Ban Could Reorder the World

Biden’s Russian oil ban is an invitation to move on to the next era of energy — or risk empowering yet another energy-rich autocrat → Read More

China Pounces on Russia's Ukraine Invasion to Launch Propaganda Blitz

China’s Communist Party wants you to think the West fueled Russia’s invasion and that China is the world’s new peacemaker → Read More

'He Has No Idea What's Coming': Biden Vows More Pressure on Putin in State of the Union

Biden declared that American airspace would be now closed off to Russian airplanes, which could further damage that country’s free-falling economy → Read More

Tucker Carlson’s Putin Bromance Leads to Rehashing Cruel and Disproven DNC Smear

“Vladimir Putin did not hack the DNC,” the Fox host claimed, blaming it on a Democratic insider — seemingly alluding to Seth Rich — who was “within the building” → Read More

Tim Ramthun, Wisconsin Stolen-Election Leader, Runs for Governor

He’s too extreme for Wisconsin’s far-right Republican Party. But he’s got Donald Trump and the MyPillow guy in his corner → Read More