Excerpt: According to her medical files, which she obtained only recently, Ms Ponting had been running away from home and hanging out with friends her parents disapproved of after a difficult move with her family from Ottawa to Montreal.

“I was an ordinary teenager,” she recalled. But the judge sent her to the Allan.

Once there, she became an unwitting participant in covert CIA experiments known as MK-Ultra. The Cold War project tested the effects of psychedelic drugs like LSD, electroshock treatments and brainwashing techniques on human beings without their consent.

Over 100 institutions – hospitals, prisons and schools – in the US and Canada were involved…

Excerpt: The group was careful to avoid politics, she said, and instead focused on several key questions: Had the sandwich actually “exploded all over” CBP agent Gregory Lairmore, as he’d testified? (Specifically, they analyzed—and at times mocked—Lairmore’s claim that “I had mustard and condiments on my uniform, and an onion hanging from my radio antenna that night.”) What was Dunn’s intent in flinging the grinder? And what actually constitutes “bodily harm”?…

Excerpt: “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”…

Excerpt: As best as I can tell, Microsoft hasn’t said a single freaking word about this whole thing. And, as I said was the case with the earlier Nintendo story, that means that the company either officially or tacitly endorses the use. There is no other potential way to read this. And it is not lost on anyone that Microsoft donated to Trump’s campaign and has all kinds of government contracts with this administration. Their silence, it appears, is designed to keep the money flowing…

Excerpt: After the war, comics became a scapegoat for American cultural and social insecurities in the new Cold War world: juvenile delinquency; crime; violence; sexual promiscuity; homosexuality; and more. The anti-comics crusaders came from all walks of American life: teachers; parents; children; politicians; clergy; intellectuals; medical professionals; journalists; and civic leaders. They were men and women, boys and girls, young and old, black and white, urban and rural. Unsatisfied with merely limiting access to materials deemed to be objectionable, these comics opponents often sought to physically destroy comic books…