RT @silversfound: The Silvers Foundation is proud to have supported this extraordinary work from @scottsayare, who excavates a generational….

New piece of mine for.@gdnlongread on the most ancient possibly hominin fossils ever discovered; the two-decade fight over the bones and their meaning; and what we know—and what we don't, and maybe won't—of the deep origins of humanity.

RT @NYCSanitation: In 1991, David Lynch showed the world the alienation and innate horror of a dirty street, directing this unforgettable a….

The world is awash in useful and important information of all sorts, if only we can see it. For this week's @NYTmag, I wrote about the extraordinary Joy Milne (@stumpw0rk50), who sees disease where others can't, and sees it with her nose.

Excellent thread on the extremely dangerous but highly entertaining farce currently playing out in France’s political realm.

RT @jeffersonmorley: “Do my critics have another explanation for what Joannides was doing and who he was working for?” .No, they do not. No….

RT @NYMag: What really happened to JFK? One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know. How Jefferson Morley tracked the Agency’s….

RT @schwarz: This is an excellent article about how the CIA's lies about Lee Harvey Oswald were uncovered by high class oddball @jeffersonm….

RT @sundaylongread: Morning! Enjoy another week of great reads by @AnatRubin1, @SalmanRushdie, @scottsayare, @drewharwell, @laurensmiley &….

RT @jeffersonmorley: …”Journalists never report the JFK story journalistically,” he said….” Good ⁦@NYMag⁩ summary of where JF….

RT @NYMag: What really happened to JFK? . After the CIA was compelled to release all the information it knew about the JFK assassination, a….

And, most of all, to @jeffersonmorley for sharing his story and his remarkable work with me.

For complex reasons, it generally remains inadvisable to speak of conspiracy unless you don't mind being labeled a kook. I hope I won't be. But thank you to my superb editor @cwhe for helping me take the risk, and to @laura_thomp for making sure the facts really are the facts.

The historian C. Lasch wrote that in @harpers. His conclusions were in fact based upon the government's own investigations. In 1979, for instance, a major congressional inquiry found that JFK "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." But, oddly, who remembers that?.

“In view of the overwhelming evidence that Oswald could not have acted alone (if he acted at all), the most remarkable feature of the assassination is not the abundance of conspiracy theories, but the rejection of a conspiracy theory by the ‘best and brightest.’”.

Given the subject matter, I feel compelled to add that I am not a lunatic. @jeffersonmorley makes a great point of working in the realm of fact, and this piece does the same. That said, it also addresses the matter of the taboo that still attaches to the assassination.

Morley's focus has been on the @CIA, and more particularly on a little-known operative named George Joannides. The details are too complex to rehearse by tweet, unfortunately, but I promise you they are worth a bit of effort. Please do read the piece!.

Morley has spent 30 years reporting on the JFK Assassination Records Collection at the @USNatArchives, created by a 1992 law (inspired by @TheOliverStone's film "JFK") that launched "the most ambitious declassification effort in American history." (I'd never heard of it either.).

What exactly happened on Nov. 22, 1963? I don't claim to know the truth. Nor does @jeffersonmorley, whom I profile, and whose work forms the basis for the piece. But it is now possible to state, and state without equivocation, that we have been prevented from knowing it.

For the last few months, I have been at work on a long and quite serious piece on—to my personal astonishment—the assassination of JFK. It's up today at @NYMag, and I hope you'll read it.