Roy Cohn | Portside

August 9, 2026

The Mentor

Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark The New Yorker

How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump everything.

January 9, 2025

President Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg

Phillip Deery The Nation

A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.

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October 22, 2024

Go See ‘The Apprentice’ Before It’s Too Late

Eileen Jones Jacobin

Trump supporters will never go see 'The Apprentice' and anti-Trumpers won’t be able to bear two hours watching the bane of their existence rise to wealth and power. This lack of a clear audience spells an unfortunate box-office bomb.

April 1, 2021

The Executed Innocent: Why Justice for Ethel Rosenberg Still Matters

Emily Tamkin Emily Tamkin

How a new investigation into a 1951 spy trial exposed long-running injustices committed in the name of US security. The Rosenbergs’ story is as relevant to our times as it was 70 years ago.

June 25, 2020

Tidbits - June 25, 2020 - Reader Comments: Unite to Defeat Trump; Lynchings, Racial Violence; Trump's Arms Race; When So Many Police are Vets; Teachers Union: Cops Out of Schools; Labor and Police; McCarthyism and Black Freedom Movement; Roy Cohn; more

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Reader Comments: Unite to Defeat Trump; Lynchings, Racial Violence; Trump's Arms Race; Problem When So Many Police are Vets; Teachers Union: Cops Out of Schools; Labor and Police; McCarthyism and Black Freedom Movement; Southern Communists; Roy Cohn;

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June 23, 2020

My Roy Cohn, and Ours

J. Hoberman Tablet

Two recent documentaries, both now streaming, try to unpack the McCarthyite Trump-whisperer—progenitor of the postmodern political world we now inhabit.