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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
U.S. Politics 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, …
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 …
U.S. Politics Betsy DeVos Quietly Making It Easier for Dying For-Profit Schools to Rip Off a Few More Students on the Way OutThe Intercept - David Dayen Betsy DeVos’s Education Department quietly dropped requirements for risky for-profit colleges to set aside funds in case the schools closed, …
U.S. Politics Elizabeth Warren Has a Novel Idea: Tax Corporations on the Profits They Claim PubliclyThe Intercept - Aída Chávez Sen. Elizabeth Warren is unveiling a novel new way to tax corporations: Take them at their word. Due to the vagaries of American corporate accounting, …
U.S. Politics Julián Castro Got Off Easy for Ethics Trouble in the Last Presidential CampaignThe Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen In 2016, then-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro violated a federal law while campaigning for Hillary Clinton, but the Obama …
U.S. Politics Wendell Primus, the Most Powerful Staffer in Congress, Represents a Generational Divide on the LeftThe Intercept - David Dayen The remark drifted quietly past nearly all political watchers, but inside Congress, it reverberated like a patch of rolling thunder. “I’m not worried …
U.S. Politics Nancy Pelosi and Cheri Bustos Continue Dividing Democratic Party, Take New Swipes at Ocasio-CortezThe Intercept - Aída Chávez House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., both took aim this week at Rep. …
U.S. Politics Immoral CompassThe Intercept - Intercepted Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. The …
Play buttonU.S. Politics AIPAC Targets Bernie Sanders in Facebook Ads Focused on Key Democratic Primary StatesThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Sen. Bernie Sanders, who could be the first Jewish president of the United States two years from now, is currently the target of a pressure campaign …
U.S. Politics A Harvard Professor Filed a Shareholder Lawsuit to Restrict Shareholder RightsThe Intercept - Susan Antilla Over the past two years, some senior officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission have indicated that they would be open to corporations …
U.S. Politics On the Eve of Israel’s Election, Netanyahu Thanks Trump for Sanctioning Iran at His RequestThe Intercept - Robert Mackey On the eve of Israel’s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took credit for President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on Iran’s …
Play buttonU.S. Politics Donald Trump, Not Ilhan Omar, Accused American Jews of Dual LoyaltyThe Intercept - Robert Mackey Addressing American Jews on Saturday in Las Vegas, President Donald Trump casually invoked the anti-Semitic trope of dual loyalty by referring to …
U.S. Politics Could a Green New Deal Make Us Happier People?The Intercept - Kate Aronoff For as long as climate change has been a part of America’s national consciousness, it’s been talked about in dire terms, evoking images of some …
U.S. Politics Bernie Sanders Is the Most Popular 2020 Candidate Among Hispanic Voters, New Polling FindsThe Intercept - Aída Chávez Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading every other presidential candidate in support from Hispanic voters, who make up a significant chunk of his …
U.S. Politics The Reluctance of Bernie Sanders to Release His Damn Tax Returns Is Part of a Bigger IssueThe Intercept - Ryan Grim Why hasn’t Bernie Sanders just released his damn tax returns already? It’s a question that’s something of a Rorschach test for Democratic primary …
Play buttonU.S. Politics A Black Woman Said She Was Afraid of the Police. A Nearly All-White Disciplinary Panel Said We Don’t Believe You.The Intercept - Rachel M. Cohen A state ethics panel in New Jersey, which included a former police officer indicted for killing an unarmed black man, has recommended a six-month …
