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Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering news, incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washingto...
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Trump’s National Killer Police Force
Within the span of a week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Maine and Texas, and another was hit by a truck and killed in Flor...
Trump’s Formula for Forever Wars
President Donald Trump blew up the temporary ceasefire after the U.S. launched a series of airstrikes against Iran over the weekend. The two nations h...
INTRODUCING: First America by Rebecca Nagle
The Intercept Briefing is happy to share the first episode of journalist Rebecca Nagle's new podcast series, First America.
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Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire
Last spring, President Donald Trump issued the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, taking aim at federal parks, monument...
The People Who Stood By Graham Platner — Until He Was Accused of Rape
The Democratic Party is once again in upheaval as Graham Platner, its unconventional nominee to knock out longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Ma...
Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as Terrorists
A noise demonstration that took place outside of the Prairieland Detention Facility in Texas one year ago has resulted in decades of prison time for t...
The Democratic Party Gets Its Populist Takeover
All three congressional candidates that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamadani endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday. The races were widely viewed as a...
The Performative Ceasefire in Gaza
Over the last few years, the world has seen unspeakable violence, death, and devastation from Israel’s war on Gaza. During that time, global perceptio...
The Right’s “Election Fraud” Cry for Midterms Previewed in Primaries
On Tuesday night, oyster farmer and combat veteran Graham Platner overwhelmingly sailed to victory in the Democratic Senate primary in Maine. His oppo...
Warehousing Human Beings
Join The Intercept Briefing podcast on Tuesday, June 16, at 5 pm ET (2 p.m. PT) for a live episode. Intercept journalist Jonah Valdez and Tariq Kenney...
The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary has been making the media rounds defending the 40,000-acre data center project he’s backing in northern Utah. Dismissing re...
AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was decisively ousted on Tuesday night in his Kentucky primary, a win for President Donald Trump, who had launched an al...
“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”
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The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It
The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act, triggering a new wave of redistricting fights in the midst of midterm primary elec...
Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend became the site of the third failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. “I remember the...
“Me Too” Comes Back To Congress
It’s primary season, this time against a backdrop of heightened concerns and awareness of powerful figures skirting accountability for sexual abuse an...
When Anti-War Candidates Become War-Monger Presidents
Sen. Bernie Sanders forced a vote on Wednesday to block the sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. The resolutions failed mostly along party lines w...
Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil”
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Putting Fuel on a Ceasefire: Israel Tries to Kill U.S.–Iran Talks
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Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home
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Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh
Donald Trump’s second term has been broadly defined by an overwhelming sense of chaos. Every week the U.S. finds itself in a new crisis of the preside...
“Liberate Their Bodies From Their Souls”: The Lies That Sell the Iran War
From the White House to Iran’s former crown prince, proponents of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran sell it to the American people — and Iranians themselves...
Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars
In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after oil prices jumped and the growing regional...
Trump’s War to Nowhere
The Israel–U.S. military campaign in Iran has killed more than 1,000 people since the assault began on February 28. A war powers resolution in the Sen...
Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union
“The deliberate cruelty that they found humor in stood out to me,” says Jordan Uhl of Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening State of the Union. This week on...
What Does the Trump Administration Want With Cuba?
Cuba is spiraling into a humanitarian crisis. The country’s long-standing economic and political turmoil reached new heights this week as the effects...
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Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering...
Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG
Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, defending the Justice Department’s widely criticized rollout o...
“Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter
The word “terrorist” wasn’t coined on September 11, 2001, but the defining event of the early 21st century ushered it in as the United States’ go-to t...
Even the Top Prosecutor in Minneapolis Doesn’t Know the Identity of the Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti
In the two months Minnesota has been under siege by federal agents, immigration officers have shot and killed two U.S. citizens, poet and artist Renee...
Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle
The people of Iran are in the midst of one of the country’s biggest uprisings — and harshest government crackdowns — since the Iranian Revolution.
Trump’s War on America
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis last week, unleashing a...
Greg Grandin on Trump’s “Universal Police Warrant”
How long will the United States claim control over Venezuela? “Only time will tell,” President Donald Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday — pot...
AI’s Imperial Agenda
After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman launched ChatGPT in 2022, the race for dominance in the field of artificial intelligence hit warp speed. Silicon Valley ha...
Collateral Damage - Airborne Imperialism: The Tragic Deaths of Veronica and Charity Bowers
We're excited to share another episode of The Intercept’s new podcast Collateral Damage. The investigative series examines the half-century-long war o...
Deportation, Inc.
The most defining feature of Donald Trump’s first year back in office has been the brutality of his deportation machine and his administration's numer...
“Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner”
In September, The Intercept broke the story of the U.S. military ordering an additional strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.
Since t...
Lethal Illusion: Understanding the Death Penalty Apparatus
As of December first, officials across the U.S. have executed 44 people in 11 states, making 2025 one of the deadliest years for state sanctioned exec...
REBROADCAST: The Housing Hunger Games
This week on The Intercept Briefing: What does it mean to work full-time in America and still not afford a place to live? We're resharing our conversa...
Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era
The Labor Department reported September jobs numbers on Thursday, showing employers added 119,000 jobs to the economy but also an increase in unemploy...