James Kirchick

Washington has long been a disproportionately gay city—a mecca for clever, ambitious young men who want to escape their hometowns’ prying eyes.

Why does the influential African-American organizer and strategist continue to speak to us, three and a half decades after his death?

The F.B.I. director promised to save American democracy from those who would subvert it—while his secret programs subverted it from within.