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The Intercept Briefing
Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a new weekly podcast delivering incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington,...
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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...
Saikat Chakrabarti’s Plan for the Political Revolution
It’s the end of an era. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who counts among her legacies in Congress successfully undercutting the push for Medicare for All...
Democrats Swept Tuesday Night’s Election. Now What?
On Tuesday, voters in Virginia, New York City, New Jersey, Texas, California, and Mississippi overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidates and ballo...
Kat Abughazaleh on the Right to Protest
Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh was charged earlier this week with federal conspiracy charges for protesting outside of Broadview ICE...
From Trump, With Impunity
Once again, Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza. The latest wave of strikes killed more than 100 people, mostly women and children, according to health...
The Struggle for the Future of the New York Democratic Party
New York City is on the cusp of an election in which what once looked impossible has begun to seem inevitable. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist...
Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Deal Is Already Failing Palestinians
The first phase of the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal began to move forward this week as Israeli and Palestinian hostages have been released and ai...
Introducing Collateral Damage: Ep. 1 Dirty Business: The Atlanta Narcotics Unit’s Deadly Raid on 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston
We're excited to share a new podcast from The Intercept called Collateral Damage. The investigative series examines the half-century-long war on drugs...
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
The United States has executed 21 people over the last month in targeted drone strikes off the coast of Venezuela. The Trump administration has so far...
Government Shutdown and Free Speech Showdown
The federal government shut down on Wednesday as President Donald Trump threatened mass federal layoffs. Republicans are blaming Democrats for the shu...
What It’s Like on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attacked by Drones
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, drones attacked a fleet of small boats bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla, as it’s...
Trump’s Cult of Power Cancels Free Speech
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, conservatives have moved quickly to consolidate power and attack their political enemies, whose relative impotenc...
The Real Charlie Kirk
After the fatal shooting of right-wing personality Charlie Kirk on Wednesday afternoon, the rhetoric on the right quickly escalated. Influential voice...
Unhinged: A Return to Washington
The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein. Another government shutdown. The U.S. military shooting down a boat. The Centers for Disease Control is in turmoil just...
The Housing Hunger Games
Homeless sweeps have become the go-to, bipartisan performance of “doing something” about the U.S. housing crisis — a spectacle embraced by Democrats a...
Democrats Are Missing Political Layups And Dooming Us All
The Democratic Party has lost millions of voters since 2020, according to new analysis from the New York Times. Meanwhile, Republicans are gaining gro...
Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and federal abortion prot...
“A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel Is Starving Gaza
As the Israeli government weighs, once again, expanding its genocidal military campaign in Gaza, the enclave is sliding into a full-scale famine.
Decades of Denial: Policing’s Past Haunts the Present
Nationwide protests. Racist discrimination. Militarized police. These were the characteristics used to describe America during the long hot summer of...
Starvation as a Weapon: Chris Hedges on Gaza
More than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food have been killed by Israeli forces in just the last few months, according to the United Nations. Israel’s bl...
TRAILER: Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach
This week on The Intercept Briefing, newsroom counsel and correspondent Shawn Musgrave speaks with professor and attorney Leah Litman and politics rep...
Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach
During Donald Trump’s first term, the Supreme Court made some effort to check his power. But that era is over. The court has ruled that Trump cannot b...
The Great American Heist You’re Paying For
On the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that constitutes one of the largest transfers of wealth in history — taking money...
REBROADCAST: Trump’s Vision for America: I Am God
This week on The Intercept Briefing, we're re-sharing a conversation we first aired on March 7, 2025 – a conversation that’s only grown more relevant...
TRAILER: Who’s the Real Bully of the Middle East?
This week on The Intercept Briefing, host Akela Lacy speaks to Iranian American author Hooman Majd about the Israel–Iran ceasefire, Trump’s role in es...
Who’s the Real Bully of the Middle East?
A tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran announced Monday appears to be holding. President Donald Trump made the announcement after unilaterally dr...
TRAILER: The Disinformation Machine After a Murder
This week on The Intercept Briefing, host Jordan Uhl talks with journalists Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy about how online disinformation is distorting...
The Disinformation Machine After a Murder
In the wake of the political assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, prominent right-wing figures moved quickly to assign...
TRAILER: Trump’s GI Joe-Cosplaying “Goon Squads” Sow Terror — and Solidarity
ICE agents are arresting day laborers and raiding businesses across the country. They didn’t expect community resistance. This week on The Intercept B...
Trump’s GI Joe-Cosplaying “Goon Squads” Sow Terror — and Solidarity
Across the country, demonstrators are preparing for a weekend of protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, Donald Trump's...
TRAILER: Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back.
Trump plays the working-class hero while Democrats cling to corporate donors. David Sirota, Jessica Washington, and Ilyse Hogue discuss how to turn th...
Democrats Hate Their Own Party. The People Can Take It Back.
At a recent rally at U.S. Steel in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump stood in front of a row of workers in hard hats and safety vests and proclaimed, “We're...