U.S. Politics The Best Hot Take on the Mueller Report Is From 1796The Intercept - Jon Schwarz The Mueller report is now (mostly) public. The lurid speculation from Democrats and chunks of the corporate media that President Donald Trump was …
Pennsylvania Politics Why Philly’s Reformist Prosecutor Finally Supports Letting Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Appeal Go ForwardThe Intercept - Natasha Lennard Mumia Abu-Jamal’s long struggle for freedom and justice gained crucial ground this week. The former Black Panther, activist, and journalist will get …
Mueller Report William Barr Misled Everyone About the Mueller Report. Now Democrats Are Calling for His Resignation.The Intercept - James Risen Attorney General William Barr is coming under increasing fire from congressional Democrats for statements he made before the release of the Mueller …
World News Northern Ireland Mourns Lyra McKee, Journalist and LGBT Activist Shot at Nationalist RiotThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Lyra McKee, a young journalist and activist for LGBT rights in Northern Ireland, was killed on Thursday night by a bullet fired in the direction of …
Felix Sater What the Mueller Report Didn’t Say About Felix Sater and the Trump Tower in MoscowThe Intercept - Johnny Dwyer The redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report contained quite a bit of information about the perfidy of the Trump White House, the …
Steny Hoyer House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Is Facing a Primary ChallengeThe Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen Mckayla Wilkes, a 28-year-old administrative assistant, part-time student, and mother of two, has had enough. In late March, she announced that she …
Starbucks Starbucks Promised a Recyclable Drink Lid. Don’t Believe the Hype.The Intercept - Sharon Lerner The new Starbucks coffee cup lid, which is being rolled out with great green fanfare in six cities this summer, was supposed be an environmental …
Play buttonU.S. Politics Robert Mueller Did Not Merely Reject the Trump/Russia Conspiracy Theories. He Obliterated Them.The Intercept - Glenn Greenwald The two-pronged conspiracy theory that has dominated U.S. political discourse for almost three years – that (1) Trump, his family and his campaign …
U.S. Politics Dear Democrats: Mueller Just Handed You a Road Map for Impeachment. Follow It.The Intercept - Mehdi Hasan Dear House Democrats, You told us to be patient. You told us to be cautious. You told us to wait for Robert Mueller. Well, the time for waiting is …
U.S. Politics Annotating Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Redacted ReportThe Intercept - James RisenRobert Mackey A redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Election,” was released to …
U.S. Politics Trump’s Veto on Yemen War Is a Sign That the Strongmen in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are WinningThe Intercept - Sarah Aziza On Tuesday, Donald Trump invoked his veto power for only the second time in his presidency. Trump’s move struck down a congressional resolution to …
World News Secret IDB Proposal Would Give $48 Billion Infusion to Boost Venezuela’s Economy — But Only After Regime ChangeThe Intercept - Rafael Moro MartinsRyan Grim The Inter-American Development Bank is quietly circulating an analysis that foresees an up to $48 billion infusion of capital into the Venezuelan …
U.S. Politics Democratic 2020 Candidates Promised to Reject Lobbyist Donations, but Many Accepted the Cash AnywayThe Intercept - Lee Fang All of the Democratic presidential candidates have committed to rejecting the influence of special interests. To demonstrate their resolve, several …
U.S. Politics Nancy Pelosi Takes Control of U.S. Foreign Policy on Brexit With Stark Warning to U.K.The Intercept - Robert Mackey Addressing Ireland’s parliament in Dublin on Wednesday, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seized control of American foreign policy in relation to …
U.S. Politics National Republicans Bankrolled Lawyer for GOP Congressional Candidate Accused of Election FraudThe Intercept - Akela Lacy National Republicans picked up the tab for the legal defense of a North Carolina congressional candidate whose campaign illegally solicited and …
Australian Greens A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe Intercept - Naomi Klein Today, The Intercept launches “A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” a seven-minute film narrated by the congresswoman and …
U.S. Politics Silicon Valley-Funded Privacy Think Tanks Fight in D.C. to Unravel State-Level Consumer Privacy ProtectionsThe Intercept - Lee Fang After years of ignoring the issue, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are suddenly engaged in a furious fight over enacting national legislation to establish …
Play buttonJournalism Livestream: The Intercept’s Anniversary — Five Years of Fearless, Adversarial JournalismThe Intercept The Intercept launched five years ago with a mission to produce fearless, adversarial journalism. Since then, we have published thousands of stories, …
Julian Assange Julian Assange Suffered Severe Psychological and Physical Harm in Ecuadorian Embassy, Doctors SayThe Intercept - James Risen An American doctor who conducted several medical and mental health evaluations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London …
U.S. Politics Elizabeth Warren Presses Pentagon on Its Planning for Climate ChangeThe Intercept - Kate Aronoff One of America’s major political parties may not yet be willing to acknowledge that climate change is real, but it is already having significant …
Play buttonGlenn Greenwald Episode 2 of “Animal Matters”: How the Cause Went From the Leftist Fringe to the Trans-Ideological MainstreamThe Intercept - Glenn Greenwald Two weeks ago, the Intercept, in partnership with Sentient Media, a new media company devoted to the issue of animal rights, launched the debut …
Minnesota How a Christian Nonprofit Helped a Controversial Minnesota Mining Company Buy Gear for Local PoliceThe Intercept - Alleen Brown Ely is one of a handful of small towns in lake-studded northeastern Minnesota where mining or oil pipeline proposals have divided communities. While …
World News Secret Report Reveals Saudi Incompetence and Widespread Use of U.S. Weapons in YemenThe Intercept - Alex Emmons Since the brutal murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi last October, Congress has increasingly pressured the …
Ilhan Omar How Democrats Did, and Did Not, Defend Ilhan OmarThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Democratic presidential candidates, led by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, spoke out forcefully in defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar this weekend, …
Death Row How a Former Death Row Prisoner and a Murder Victim’s Daughter Joined Together To Fight the Death PenaltyThe Intercept - Liliana Segura If you ask Cynthia Vaughn and Sabrina Butler how they met, there’s a good chance they’ll erupt in laughter. It’s not your typical funny story — not …
Julian Assange Julian Assange Languishes in Prison as His Journalistic Collaborators Brandish Their PrizesThe Intercept - Charles Glass While Julian Assange languishes in south London’s maximum security Belmarsh Prison, a British court is weighing his fate. The 48-year-old Australian …
World News A Honduran Asylum-Seeker Was Brutally Murdered After Being Deported — From MexicoThe Intercept - Eileen Grench Terror raced through Teresa Gonzales as both the clarity of the message and the ambiguity of the threat hit her at once. “We have a present for you …
U.S. Politics This April 15, Don’t Fall for the Right’s Favorite Lie About TaxesThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz If you listen to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council in the Trump White House, or Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, …
Play buttonU.S. Politics These House Democrats Pledged Not to Take Corporate Cash — but They’re Using a Loophole to Do It AnywayThe Intercept - Lee Fang Jason Crow was one of the victorious Democrats who ran in last year’s midterm election on a promise to reject campaign cash controlled by business …
