The Interceptflipped into NewsEliot Engel In New York’s 16th Congressional District, a Troubling Early Poll for Longtime Incumbent Eliot EngelThe Intercept - Akela Lacy Six in 10 registered Democrats in New York’s 16th Congressional District aren’t sure who they’ll vote for in the June 2020 primary — despite longtime …
The Interceptflipped into NewsBernie Sanders Sanders: I Wouldn’t Make Obama’s Mistake of Shutting Down Grassroots Pressure on WashingtonThe Intercept - Ryan Grim After winning the election in 2008, Barack Obama, before being sworn in as president, effectively shuttered the unprecedented grassroots army his …
The Interceptflipped into NewsFBI Informant Reveals FBI’s Already Vast Powers to Investigate Right-Wing ExtremistsThe Intercept - Trevor Aaronson In June 2012, Chris Stevens, a top-rated Army sniper, received a Facebook message from an acquaintance he hadn’t seen in years. The message was from a …
The Interceptflipped into NewsU.S. Politics Democrats Want to be Economic Populists. Why Are They Clinging to a Flawed Reagan-Era Tax Credit?The Intercept - Sam Adler-Bell Tuesday’s presidential debate confirmed that the Democratic Party’s center of gravity has fundamentally shifted. The contenders projected a …
The Interceptflipped into EnvironmentTechnology Bill McKibben on How Climate Crises and New Technologies Will Change What It Means to Be HumanThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain Is the human race approaching its demise? The question itself may sound hyperbolic — or like a throwback to the rapture and apocalypse. Yet there is …
The Interceptflipped into NewsEnvironment Leaked Audio Reveals How Coca-Cola Undermines Plastic Recycling EffortsThe Intercept - Sharon Lerner For decades, Coca-Cola has burnished its public image as an environmentally caring company with donations to recycling nonprofits. Meanwhile, as one …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics Senate Republicans to Hold “Save the Senate” Retreat at Trump HotelThe Intercept - Akela Lacy Senate Republicans’ campaign arm is hosting a multi-day retreat at the Trump International Hotel next month, the latest in a series of GOP events …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics Is a Ukrainian Oligarch Helping Trump Smear Biden to Evade U.S. Corruption Charges?The Intercept - Robert Mackey The conspiracy to reelect the president by misleading the American people about Joe Biden’s work in Ukraine continues, despite the impeachment …
The Interceptflipped into NewsDonald Trump Trump Sent Attorney General Barr to Rome In Search of a Deep State Plot. Italian Intelligence Says There’s Nothing There.The Intercept - Matthew Cole The Italian government has determined that its intelligence services had no connection to a Maltese professor who told a Trump campaign adviser in …
The Interceptflipped into NewsNews (U.S.) U.S. Border Agencies Continue to Harass Immigrant Rights Advocates. The ACLU Is Suing.The Intercept - Ryan Devereaux Since Donald Trump’s inauguration more than two years ago, Alex Mensing, a volunteer with the immigrant rights group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, has been …
The Interceptflipped into NewsPolitics Deconstructed Podcast: Is It Time for Democrats to Fight Dirty?The Intercept - Deconstructed Subscribe to the Deconstructed podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. …
The Interceptflipped into NewsIslamic State (ISIS) Nobody Has a Plan for Thousands of ISIS Fighters Detained by Kurds in SyriaThe Intercept - Umar Farooq Despite all the disastrous consequences of Donald Trump’s Syria policy, the U.S. president has in fact been right in one respect: The world has done …
The Interceptflipped into NewsJoe Biden Joe Biden’s Mysterious Claim That He Whipped Votes for the CFPBThe Intercept - Ryan GrimDavid Dayen In typical debate prep, candidates try to game out what questions might come from moderators, and what attacks might come from rivals, to have …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics What I Learned From the Debate: Democrats Still Can’t Level With Voters About the American EmpireThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz In the past few years, the Democratic Party has started dealing with reality on domestic policy. Largely thanks to leadership from Vermont Sen. …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsEducation Bernie Sanders Stood Up to Teach for America When Congress Wouldn’tThe Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen In his expansive presidential education platform, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., lays out commitments to raising teacher pay, expanding teacher-training …
The Interceptflipped into NewsCorruption Intercepted Podcast: Wasteland of CorruptionThe Intercept - Intercepted Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. The …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsHunter Biden Joe Biden, in Stumbling Debate Performance, Claims Credit for Elizabeth Warren’s Signature AchievementThe Intercept - Ryan GrimAída ChávezAkela Lacy In previous debates, Joe Biden, 76, came out of the gate relatively strong and lucid, not devolving into the kind of gibberish that makes for viral …
The Interceptflipped into National SecurityU.S. Politics Trump’s Chaotic Syria Exit Puts Anti-War 2020 Democrats in a Delicate SpotThe Intercept - Alex Emmons The Pentagon announced on Monday that the U.S. was pulling all of its troops out of northeastern Syria at President Donald Trump’s direction, …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsTrump University Let’s Be Serious — Trump Doesn’t Mind These Incitements to Kill JournalistsThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan Does anyone seriously believe that President Donald Trump “strongly condemns” the meme video of him shooting, stabbing, strangling, and setting on …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics Documents Reveal Hospital Industry Is Leading Fight Against Medicare for AllThe Intercept - Andrew Perez Investor-owned hospitals are leading the fight against the creation of a comprehensive, universal health care system, according to corporate filings …
The Interceptflipped into NewsBankruptcy In Midst of Bankruptcy Fight, Elizabeth Warren Said “Joe Biden Should Not Be Allowed to Sell Out Women”The Intercept - Ryan Grim So far, the interactions between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren during the Democratic presidential campaign have remained remarkably tame, a surprise …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsU.S. Politics Democratic Candidate for Senate Was a Key Player in Controversial Big-Money Fueled Development ProjectThe Intercept - Akela Lacy North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, who has pledged not to take corporate PAC donations, as recently as last year received money from a …
The Interceptflipped into JusticeUniversity of Mississippi Months After ICE Raids, an Impoverished Mississippi Community Is Still ReelingThe Intercept - Maye Primera Migdalia couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, her whole body ached. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” she told her children. She thinks the pains began …
The Interceptflipped into NewsExtinction Rebellion Can Extinction Rebellion Build a U.S. Climate Movement Big Enough to Save the Earth?The Intercept - Alleen Brown A crowd of about 200 black-clad members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion gathered Monday morning at the southern end of New York …
The Interceptflipped into NewsNews (U.S.) In Iowa, Politicians Protect the Meat Industry by Making Animal Rights Activists CriminalsThe Intercept - Leighton Akio WoodhouseDavid Zlutnick This video includes graphic images some readers may find disturbing. The meat industry depends, more than anything else, on walls. The walls of farms …
The Interceptflipped into NewsU.S. Politics After Avoiding Safety Upgrades, PG&E Hired Lobbyists and Public Relations InsteadThe Intercept - Lee Fang Power shutoffs affecting more than 1 million residents, scheduled by PG&E this week throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, …
The Interceptflipped into PoliticsTwitter Twitter Tips the Scale Toward Incumbents by Refusing to Verify Primary ChallengersThe Intercept - Aída Chávez Twitter is refusing to verify the accounts of primary challengers running for Congress in 2020, a policy that many candidates say is hurting their …
The Interceptflipped into TechnologyTechnology Hedge Fund-Owned Newspaper Group Outsources Design Abroad, Chasing Higher DividendsThe Intercept - Julie Reynolds Investigative journalist Thomas Peele remembers the day he learned that he and fellow reporters at the East Bay Times and the San Jose Mercury News …
The Interceptflipped into JusticeBosnia & Herzegovina Congratulations, Nobel Committee, You Just Gave the Literature Prize to a Genocide ApologistThe Intercept - Peter Maass Stockholm is more than 1,500 miles from Sarajevo, and the war in Bosnia was halted in 1995, so there’s a lot of time and distance between the Swedes …
The Interceptflipped into JusticeDeath Penalty How the Secretive “Discipline” Process for Federal Prosecutors Buries Misconduct CasesThe Intercept - Brooke WilliamsSamata JoshiShawn Musgrave Lashawn Jermaine Johnson spent his 30s in prison law libraries. As he put it in an interview, that was “the only place you were going to find …
