U.S. Politics A Top Joe Biden Staffer Is a Supporter of India’s Authoritarian Leader Narendra ModiThe Intercept - Maryam Saleh A new adviser to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, the director of outreach to the Asian-American Pacific Islander community, is a strong backer of …
Technology NRA Ramped Up Facebook Advertising Immediately After Mass Shootings in El Paso and DaytonThe Intercept - Sam Biddle The National Rifle Association nearly doubled its spending on pro-gun Facebook propaganda for three weeks after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, …
Climate Only a Green New Deal Can Douse the Fires of Eco-FascismThe Intercept - Naomi Klein Organizers are expecting huge numbers to turn out for the Global Climate Strike, beginning on September 20 and continuing through September 27. It …
U.S. Politics Threatening War for Oil, Donald Trump Calls His Own Offer of Iran Talks “Fake News”The Intercept - Robert Mackey As he threatened to bomb Iran at Saudi Arabia’s behest, President Donald Trump also intensified his battle with objective reality on Sunday, by …
News (U.S.) Industrialized Militaries Are a Bigger Part of the Climate Emergency Than You KnowThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain Over a century before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed. Tagore, an …
News (U.S.) What’s in a Trump Straw?The Intercept - Naomi Klein Watch as Naomi Klein explains why the overpriced scraps of pre-landfill known as Trump Straws can actually tell us a whole lot about why our planet’s …
FBI How the FBI Increased Its Power After 9/11 and Helped Put Trump in OfficeThe Intercept - Ryan Devereaux Mike German, a former FBI special agent, had four years on the job when he took an assignment that would change his life forever. It was 1992. A jury …
World News Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State’s Special StatusThe Intercept - Soumya Shankar Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of …
Joe Biden Joe Biden’s Stunningly Racist Answer on the Legacy of Slavery Has Been OverlookedThe Intercept - Ryan Grim For the Washington Post, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered “the kind of performance his supporters have been waiting for — combative when …
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services An Asylum Officer Speaks Out Against the Trump Administration’s “Supervillain” Attacks on ImmigrantsThe Intercept - Debbie Nathan Asylum officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, were reeling after John Lafferty, director of the asylum division, was …
National Security Donald Trump Just Admitted That It Makes Sense for America’s Enemies to Get Nuclear WeaponsThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz On Thursday, President Donald Trump did something truly shocking: He told the truth. When asked why he fired John Bolton, his former national security …
Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg on the Climate Fight: “If We Can Save the Banks Then We Can Save the World”The Intercept - Naomi Klein We are living through some scary times. As Greta has told us so often: “Our house is on fire.” And I firmly believe that there are three things that …
Joe Biden Democratic Debate: Is Joe Biden OK?The Intercept - Deconstructed Subscribe to the Deconstructed podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. …
U.S. Politics Creepy Republican Ad During Democratic Debate Attacks Alexandria Ocasio-CortezThe Intercept - Robert Mackey The strange Republican obsession with attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reached a new low in a commercial break during the Democratic …
Climate Senate Democrats Draft Pro-Athlete Instagram Influencers Into Climate FightThe Intercept - Aída Chávez On Thursday, after a summer of extreme heat, the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis convened to hear from a group of people …
News (U.S.) With Trump in Office, Newspapers Increasingly Quoted Anti-Immigrant Groups Without Explaining Who They WereThe Intercept - Maryam Saleh The Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right, anti-immigrant group, was frequently cited by major U.S. newspapers in the first two years of Donald …
Benjamin Netanyahu Netanyahu Hints Trump Peace Plan Will Allow Israel to Annex Key West Bank TerritoryThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, hinted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan, set to be unveiled after next week’s …
Jill Biden Joe Biden Is Demanding Financial Transparency While Concealing His Own WealthThe Intercept - Ryan Grim Former Vice President Joe Biden is telegraphing that he plans to attack his rivals on the debate stage for a lack of transparency into their …
National Security The FBI Was Deeply Involved in CIA Black Site Interrogations Despite Years of Denials, Guantánamo Defense Lawyer SaysThe Intercept - Margot Williams On Monday morning, two days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Pakistani engineer accused of masterminding the attacks …
Khalid Sheikh MohammedHarrowing Cables Detail How the CIA Tortured Accused 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jeopardizing the Government’sThe Intercept - Daniel DeFraia In March 2003, in a secret CIA prison cell in Poland, a small frog jumped out of a drain and an interrogator caught it. “No, no,” said Khalid Sheikh …
U.S. Politics A Memoir From Hell: Samantha Power Will Do Anything for Human Rights Unless It Hurts Her CareerThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz “The Education of an Idealist” — a new memoir by Samantha Power, America’s ambassador to the U.N. from 2013 to 2017 — could have been among the …
National Security John Bolton Tried His Best to Draw the U.S. Into a War. Luckily, He Failed.The Intercept - Alex Emmons President Donald Trump parted ways with his hawkish national security advisor John Bolton on Tuesday, ending a 17-month tenure that included …
Jon Ossoff Jon Ossoff is Back: “I’m Still Standing and I’m Ready to Fight”The Intercept - Ryan Grim Jon Ossoff, who narrowly lost a high-profile Georgia congressional special election in 2017, is running for one of two U.S. Senate seats up in the …
Charles Koch Koch Data Mining Company Helped Inundate Voters With Anti-Immigrant MessagesThe Intercept - Lee Fang In recent years, Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist megadonor to Republicans and libertarian causes, has carefully recalibrated his public …
National Security Trump Was Foolish to Invite the Taliban to Camp David but the War in Afghanistan Must EndThe Intercept - Mehdi Hasan The hashtag #TalibanTrump began trending over the weekend, after Donald Trump made a bizarre and very public admission on Twitter: The president of …
U.S. Politics Isiah James Wants to Take Brooklyn’s Fight for Affordable Housing to CongressThe Intercept - Aaron Freedman It’s a hot, humid summer evening in Brooklyn, the kind that would keep most people inside with the air conditioner blasting. But not Isiah James. The …
U.S. Politics The Washington Post Nominated Glenn Kessler for a Pulitzer PrizeThe Intercept - Ryan Grim Earlier this year, the Washington Post nominated Glenn Kessler and his “Fact Checker” team for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in the National Reporting …
U.S. Politics Joe Biden Is Proud of His Record on Iraq, But His Plan to Segregate It Would Have Unleashed ChaosThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Asked this week to respond to criticism of his judgement on Iraq, like his senate vote to authorize the use of force in 2002, and his much-derided …
Environment The Right to a Future — With Naomi Klein and Greta ThunbergThe Intercept The Intercept invites you to watch a special event in New York City hosted by Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein, author of the forthcoming …
