U.S. Politics Climate Activists from Extinction Rebellion Glued Themselves to the Capitol to Disrupt House VotesThe Intercept - Aída Chávez On Tuesday evening, members of the D.C. chapter of Extinction Rebellion superglued themselves to each other and to the passages connecting the …
Play buttonBoris Johnson Donald Trump Praises Boris Johnson, Who Once Called Him “Unfit to Hold the Office of President of the United States”The Intercept - Robert Mackey “We’re respected all over the world,” Donald Trump told an audience of young Republican operatives in Washington on Tuesday. By way of example, he …
Technology Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital ArmThe Intercept - Lee Fang Last year,Google faced internal revolt from many employees over its handling of Project Maven, a secretive contract between the company and the …
Felix Sater Citing Intense Public Interest, Judge Unseals Files in Case of Trump Associate Felix SaterThe Intercept - Johnny Dwyer A federal judge in Brooklyn ordered the unsealing on Monday of previously secret portions of the court record involving the criminal case of Felix …
Steve Daines He Was Told to Go Back to Africa. Instead, He May Go to the U.S. Senate.The Intercept - Ryan Grim A March 1995 headline in the Helena Independent Record, a Montana newspaper, lays it out starkly: “Black man told to go home — to Africa.” The …
Scott Warren How the Border Patrol Began Its Investigation Into No More Deaths Volunteer Scott WarrenThe Intercept - Ryan Devereaux In the spring of 2017, a plainclothes Border Patrol agent met a source at a gas station in the sleepy town of Ajo, Arizona, some 40 miles north of …
Glenn GreenwaldIn Secret Chats, Brazil’s Chief Corruption Prosecutor Worried That Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister Would Protect President’sThe Intercept - Glenn GreenwaldVictor Pougy Grave concerns that a major corruption scandal involving Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s son, federal Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, might be shielded …
Cognitive Computing Why an “AI Race” Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible IdeaThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Perhaps because it lies at the perfect nexus of genuinely-very-complicated and impossibly-confounded-by-marketing-buzzword-speak, the term “AI” has …
Play buttonPlastic How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the WorldThe Intercept - Sharon Lerner The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and …
U.S. Constitution Racism Is an Impeachable OffenseThe Intercept - Shaun King Donald Trump has a rich, varied history of racism, bigotry, and discrimination going back to at least 1973, when the Justice Department filed a …
Rosa DeLauroA Pro-Israel Democrat Withdrew Her Support for a Bill Supporting Palestinian Rights. She Now Claims Her Name Was Added byThe Intercept - Alex KaneRyan Grim After signing on to and then backtracking from a bill to bar Israel from using U.S. military aid to detain Palestinian children, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, …
U.S. Politics Democrat-Backed Centrist PAC Is Supporting a Republican Against a Vulnerable Swing-District IncumbentThe Intercept - Ryan GrimAída Chávez The political action committee affiliated with a bipartisan caucus on Capitol Hill is spending money to back a Republican challenge to Rep. Katie …
Ilhan Omar Trump Praises Supporters Who Want to Deport Ilhan Omar as “People That Love Our Country”The Intercept - Robert Mackey Less than two hours after Donald Trump claimed that he was “not happy” with supporters who chanted “Send her back” during his scripted rant against …
John Paul Stevens John Paul Stevens Was Right: Citizens United Opened the Door to Foreign Money in U.S. ElectionsThe Intercept - Jon Schwarz John Paul Stevens, who served on the Supreme Court for 35 years until his retirement in 2010, died this Tuesday. Just before Stevens stepped down …
Chuck SchumerChuck Schumer, in Meeting With Progressive Caucus, Said He Was Surprised House Democrats Waved Through the Senate BorderThe Intercept - Ryan Grim Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., ventured across the Capitol complex on Tuesday afternoon to meet privately with House members of the …
U.S. Politics A California Bill Could Transform the Lives of Gig Workers. Silicon Valley Wants Labor’s Help To Stop It.The Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen A bill with potentially huge implications for the so-called gig economy is making its way through the California state legislature this summer, …
Jerrold Nadler The Warden Tried to Cover Up a Crisis at His Freezing Brooklyn Jail — Then He Got PromotedThe Intercept - Nick Pinto It’s been five months since a crisis of freezing and inhumane conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, when a power …
Ku Klux Klan Kellyanne Conway’s Irish Ancestors Were the Enemy When Donald Trump’s Dad Was Arrested at a Klan Riot in 1927The Intercept - Robert Mackey Kellyanne Conway’s strange, unsettling request — that a journalist who questioned the president’s call for his political enemies to be deported to …
Rahm Emanuel Maureen Dowd Asked Rahm Emanuel to Weigh In on an Immigration Debate. His Record Is Abysmal.The Intercept - Ryan Grim In 1999, Rahm Emanuel had just left the Clinton White House, taking a short break from public service to do a stint with a Chicago-based investment …
Guatemala “Do We Believe in Asylum? If We Do, We Need to Stop This Rule”: Trump Policy Upends Protections at U.S.-Mexico BorderThe Intercept - John Washington This week, the Trump administration announced an unprecedented rule that would deny tens of thousands of asylum-seekers the chance to find refuge in …
U.S. Politics How Morgan Harper’s Ohio Primary Challenge Explains the House Democratic MeltdownThe Intercept - Rachel M. CohenRyan Grim When members of the Congressional Black Caucus took aim last week at New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the organization that boosted her …
Israel Aerospace Industries How Israeli-Designed Drones Became Russia’s Eyes in the Sky for Defending Bashar al-AssadThe Intercept - Patrick Hilsman Last summer, Israel shot down yet another military drone near the line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. The …
Death Penalty Reformist District Attorney Larry Krasner Argues Pennsylvania Death Penalty Is UnconstitutionalThe Intercept - Akela Lacy Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who campaigned in 2017 as an unequivocal opponent of the death penalty, asked the Pennsylvania Supreme …
Ayanna Pressley Watch Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib Answer Donald Trump’s Racist LiesThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Four Democratic Congresswomen the president of the United States has been telling racist lies about responded on Monday with a passionate defense of …
Technology Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its TechnologyThe Intercept - Cora Currier Few people had ever heard of Perceptics, a Tennessee-based subcontractor that sells license plate readers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, …
Tiffany Cabán Tiffany Cabán’s Volunteer Army Faces a New Challenge: The RecountThe Intercept - Emma Whitford Angela Sherpa could hear fireworks on the Fourth of July, but she couldn’t see them. The 22-year-old activist from Queens spent her holiday with …
U.S. Politics How Some Florida Prosecutors Are Pushing Back Against GOP Voter Suppression EffortsThe Intercept - Maryam Saleh In January, an amendment to Florida’s constitution, passed through a ballot measure, came into force, restoring voting rights to more than a million …
Mexico Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” Policy Exposes Migrants to Rape, Kidnapping, and Murder in Dangerous Border CitiesThe Intercept - Debbie Nathan The big man with a little mustache sat slumped in his chair at an immigrant aid office in Ciudad Juárez. The Mexican city sits a block and a half …
Israel Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden Condemn Israeli Occupation, as Young American Jews Urge Democrats to Press IsraelThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Young American Jews from the IfNotNow movement, who want to end their community’s support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, …
