With the release of the notorious “Collateral Murder” video in 2010, WikiLeaks erupted into the mainstream media, admired by free-press advocates and condemned by the United States government and other global powers. That year would prove to be a watershed for the organization and its leader; while WikiLeaks scored a succession of high-impact releases, Assange’s megalomaniacal tendencies and apparent aversion to harm-reduction methods resulted in conflicts both professional and personal.

Now, just in time for a blockbuster 2015 summer - and coinciding with Assange’s three-year anniversary of confinement under asylum in London’s Ecuadorian embassy - WikiLeaks has followed a period of relative inactivity with multiple epic releases containing troves of global import. In just the past two months, WikiLeaks has published chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a secretly-negotiated regulatory and investment agreement; a complete draft of the similarly-opaque Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) - an accomplishment humbly referred to by WikiLeaks as a “modern journalistic holy grail”; “Espionnage Élysée,” a collection of documents pertaining to the surveillance of three consecutive French administrations by the United States; and “The Saudi Cables,” hundreds of thousands of internal communications from the Saudi Foreign Ministry. While the impact of these latest releases has yet to be determined, a dramatic return to the global spotlight provides an opportune time for reflecting on the exposés of WikiLeaks - the shocking, the revelatory, and the mundane.