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Regime Change We Can Believe In: The U.S. Agenda in Venezuela, Haiti and Egypt
The Intercept - Intercepted
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U.S. Politics
Bernie Sanders Is Running for President and He Wants 1 Million Campaign Volunteers
The Intercept - Robert Mackey
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Independent whose 2016 campaign for the presidency helped shift the Democratic Party to the left on issues like …
U.S. Politics
Big Corn and Big Oil Are Warring Over Trump’s Nomination of Andrew Wheeler
The Intercept - David Dayen
Two of the Republican Party’s biggest corporate allies — agribusiness and the fossil fuel industry — are waging an epic, if obscure, battle in the …
U.S. Politics
How the Federal Government Undermines Prison Education
The Intercept - Jordan Smith
Aaron Kinzel grew up poor in Toledo, Ohio, and from an early age, he was pulled into a life of crime. He didn’t know his father, and his mother’s …
U.S. Politics
Ilhan Omar, AIPAC, and the 2020 Democratic Presidential Contenders
The Intercept - Akela Lacy
Last week, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., ignited a controversy by tweeting a song lyric implying that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the …
Brett Kavanaugh
What Brett Kavanaugh’s Dishonest Anti-Abortion Dissent Reveals About His Supreme Court Agenda
The Intercept - Jordan Smith
The most obvious thing about the Supreme Court’s decision to stay a Louisiana law that would have shuttered two of the state’s three remaining …
Locked Inside a Freezing Federal Jail, They United to Protest Their Conditions — Only to Face Reprisals
The Intercept - Emma WhitfordNick Pinto
Jordan remembers jolting awake in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, in the early-morning hours of Saturday, …
Amazon Rainforest
Jair Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities.
The Intercept - Sam Cowie
“The Brazilian cavalry was very incompetent. Competent, yes, was the American cavalry that decimated its Indians in the past and nowadays does not …
U.S. Politics
The Supreme Court Will Decide if Census Citizenship Question Is Legal. Democrats Should Also Work to Block It.
The Intercept - Sam Adler-Bell
In a closed-door meeting Friday morning, the Supreme Court voted to fast-track review a lower court ruling that would have prevented the Trump …
Technology
Amazon Pullout Shows What Anti-Capitalist Organizing and Leftist Politicians Can Do
The Intercept - Natasha Lennard
When Amazon, the monopsonistic retailer and ICE collaborator, announced last November that it would open its “second headquarters” in New York City, …
National Security
After 18 Years of War, the Taliban Have the Upper Hand in Afghanistan Peace Talks
The Intercept - Bilal SarwaryMurtaza Hussain
Last year, thousands of young Afghans marched across the country, demanding an end to fighting that has destroyed millions of lives since the Soviet …
U.S. Politics
Even for Washington, the Fight Over Online Gambling Has Been Unusually Shady
The Intercept - Rachel M. CohenRyan Grim
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., talked to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “several times” about changing the Justice Department’s …
U.S. Politics
Six GOP House Members Who Need to Resign for Anti-Semitism Before Ilhan Omar
The Intercept - Mehdi Hasan
“She should either resign from Congress or certainly resign from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.” So declaimed President Donald Trump in the …
Amazon’s Home Surveillance Chief Declared War on “Dirtbag Criminals” as Company Got Closer to Police
The Intercept - Sam Biddle
On March 17, 2016, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff emailed out a company-wide declaration of war. The message, under the subject line “Going to war,” made …
El Salvador
Rep. Ilhan Omar Went After Elliott Abrams for Lying to Congress. Then He Did It Again.
The Intercept - Jon Schwarz
Elliott Abrams, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Venezuela, appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Relations on Wednesday. About two …
Ralph Northam Still Doesn’t Understand What it Takes to be Forgiven
The Intercept - Briahna Gray
It feels unfair to be forced to entertain the question of forgiveness when someone has transgressed as badly as Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. For too …
The Truth About Islam and Democracy (With Anwar Ibrahim)
The Intercept - Deconstructed
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House of Representatives Orders Donald Trump to Stop Backing Saudi-led War in Yemen, Paving the Way for Decisive Senate
The Intercept - Alex Emmons
In a stinging rebuke to the Trump administration’s cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia, the House of Representatives passed a resolution directing …
Immigrant Rights Groups Trash Border Deal: “Immigrant Families Will Pay the Price”
The Intercept - Aída ChávezRyan Grim
Immigrant rights groups are reacting angrily to the border deal to keep the government open, which President Donald Trump has said that he will sign …
As Rudy Giuliani Calls for Regime Change in Iran, Netanyahu Raises the Specter of “War”
The Intercept - Robert Mackey
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who now serves as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, called for the overthrow of Iran’s …
Goldman Lobbyist Turned Schumer General Counsel Is Hiding Most Former Clients’ Names
The Intercept - Andrew Perez
A former Goldman Sachs lobbyist who now works as the top lawyer for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., declined to name 19 of his 20 …
U.S. Politics
Black Critics of Kamala Harris and Cory Booker Push Back Against Claims That They’re Russian “Bots”
The Intercept - Aída Chávez
American descendants of slavery identifying themselves with the hashtag #ADOS have been openly critical of 2020 presidential candidates Kamala Harris …
Amazon Rainforest
The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn on the Green New Deal
The Intercept - Naomi Klein
“I really don’t like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ or ‘you’re not …
U.S. Politics
How the Government Shutdown Caused a Foreclosure — and Could Cause More
The Intercept - David Dayen
Congress has reportedly reached an agreement to fund the government and avoid another shutdown on Saturday, though with the grumbling in conservative …
Venezuela
Neoliberalism or Death: The U.S. Economic War Against Venezuela
The Intercept - Intercepted
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U.S. Politics
Insurgent Candidate Kerri Harris Has a New Job: Lobbyist for the Working Poor
The Intercept - Clio Chang
Kerri Harris, the insurgent candidate who lost her primary challenge to Sen. Tom Carper in Delaware, will be taking a new national advocacy director …
U.S. Politics
Donald Trump Responds to Beto O’Rourke’s March for Truth in El Paso With Flagrant Lies
The Intercept - Robert Mackey
In El Paso, Texas on Monday night, Donald Trump responded to the March for Truth — a protest against his false claims about the city led by its most …
U.S. Politics
There Is a Taboo Against Criticizing AIPAC — and Ilhan Omar Just Destroyed It
The Intercept - Mehdi Hasan
In 2005, Steven Rosen, then a senior official with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, sat down for dinner with journalist …
U.S. Politics
Unions See an Opening in the Wake of a Ruling That Was Supposed to Finish Them Off
The Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen
The last year has been a whirlwind for the labor movement. There have been unexpectedly positive developments, like the forceful rise in teacher …
U.S. Politics
Pro-Israel Lobby Caught on Tape Boasting That Its Money Influences Washington
The Intercept - Ryan Grim
A debate about the power in Washington of the pro-Israel lobby is underway, after Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., responded sharply to reports that …