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 I've been reading Seymour “Sy” Hersh's investigative journalism for a little over 30 years. His reporting on the My Lai massacre was assigned to me when I was 17, studying history in high school. Every time I spiraled down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, there seemed to be a Sy Hersh book confirming my worst suspicions about the inherent violence of the world's superpower, the constant disregard for the Constitution by those in power, and a pattern of cover-ups.  I followed Hersh's reporting in The New Yorker and the London Review of Books (he had already left the New York Times by the time I reached adulthood as a reader). And I've been following him on Substack ever since. This is the man who exposed the massacre of children by the U.S. military in Vietnam, who helped bring the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers to public attention, who exposed the abuses at Abu Ghraib, and who continues to report on war crimes in Gaza. He continues to fight for libe...