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Abdul El-Sayed Tests the Limits of Islamophobia in Michigan

As the Michigan Senate race finishes with a focus on the Democratic primary loser’s gripes over Israel, the party nominee has endured a barrage of...

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Matt Sledge

“Offensive Driving”: ICE’s Deadly Weaponization of Vehicles Against Civilians

The Intercept reviewed more than two dozen incidents of ICE using its army of unmarked cars to attack immigrants and American activists alike.

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Sophie Shepherd

Fergie Chambers Faces Extradition to U.S. Despite Never Being Indicted, Says Lawyer

The refusal of two pro-Palestine protesters to testify before a grand jury could hamper the left-wing donor’s extradition from Spain.

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Timothy Pratt

Radical Centrists Like Haley Stevens Are the Real Extremists in the Democratic Party

By endorsing Abdul El-Sayed’s opponent for Israel’s sake, Stevens shows how the real threat to progress comes from centrists.

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Voices

Warnings About ICE at the Polls Risk Their Own Kind of Voter Suppression

Voting rights advocates in Texas warn that spreading awareness of voter intimidation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Akela Lacy

The CIA Is Resorting to an Open Casting Call for Would-Be Cuban Assets

With Marco Rubio’s public plea for Cubans to work with the CIA, the administration is eyeing its next imperial conquest.

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Voices

Centrist Democrats Would Rather Lose the Senate Than Win With El-Sayed

With Haley Stevens’s demand for an apology from the candidate who beat her, the party’s moderates are making clear they’d rather lose than...

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Voices

How Trump Destroyed South Africa’s Effort to Slow HIV Transmission

In South Africa, home to the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, efforts to contain the virus have been upended.

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Steven W. Thrasher

The Rise of the Christian Left in Texas

James Talarico, Frederick D. Haynes, and Gina Hinojosa are all Christians running for public office — as Democrats — in Texas.

30.10.2026 2

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Voices

How AIPAC and AI Spent Their Money This Midterm Election

Intercept staff take stock of the big spenders this election cycle.

30.10.2026 10

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AI Tried to Buy the Midterms — Then the Lobby Learned Everyone Hates AI

Facing bipartisan backlash and a decaying reputation, AI super PACs are changing tactics. We tracked their election spending so far.

29.10.2026 5

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Matt Sledge

AIPAC Isn’t Retreating. Here’s How It’s Already Shaping the Next Congress.

A new project by The Intercept reveals the hundreds of candidates still taking the pro-Israel lobby’s cash, and how AIPAC is obscuring its spending.

29.10.2026 6

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Akela Lacy

Trump Vows to Send Election “Monitors” to Maine After Far-Right Conspiracies Spread

As right-wing Trump allies fearmongered about Somali American voter fraud, Maine trained local law enforcement officers on keeping armed federal...

28.10.2026 3

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Noah Hurowitz

The Incredible Shrinking Superpower

The failing war with Iran marks a dramatic retreat by the U.S. from the Middle East.

28.10.2026 7

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Juan Cole

Prosecutors Want to Keep a Man in Prison for His Wife’s Murder — Despite Judge Saying Their Evidence is Junk

Slamming the bogus bite-mark analysis that sent Charles McCrory to prison in 1985, the judge vacated his conviction.

28.10.2026 5

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Liliana Segura

The Bolsonaro Family Playbook: Lose, Cry Fraud, and Run to Trump’s America

Brazil’s Supreme court tried to strip Flávio Bolsonaro's passport, but the Trump administration granted him a visa, according to reports.

27.10.2026 4

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Voices

The Elon Musk Funder Trying to Sway the Race for LA’s Top Lawyer

The leading candidate for LA city attorney has the backing of the local DSA and vows to regulate Big Tech. Tech investors are spending millions...

27.10.2026 5

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Jonah Valdez

Pentagon Fears Drone Attacks on U.S. and Foreign Bases

Government officials said a series of recent attacks and threats have highlighted the vulnerability of U.S. military bases.

27.10.2026 10

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Nick Turse

Bankrolling American Empire in the Philippines

The Pentagon and private capital have teamed up to militarize the island nation.

26.10.2026 10

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William D. Hartung

Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse Killings

“Records are important,” said the mother of a woman killed by her Navy colleague. We found nearly twice as many domestic-abuse killings by...

26.10.2026 9

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Daniel Johnson

Hegseth Built a New Pentagon Office for Religion. Military Religious Leaders Wish He Hadn’t.

“What do I tell a soldier who believes an action is immoral, but also believes that God commanded it?” one Army chaplain told The Intercept.

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Austin Campbell

The Spirit of “Party Unity, My Ass” Is Back and Coming for the DSA (and El-Sayed)

Centrist Democrats’ calls to fall in line behind the party’s nominee only ever seem to cut one way — and fall apart when their candidate loses.

24.10.2026 10

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Voices

Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Danger When He Fired Shots That Killed 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley

Mississippi investigators said the shooting was “justified,” but new body camera footage shows the cop firing into the passenger’s side as the...

23.10.2026 10

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Liliana Segura

The Intercept Live in Conversation With Robert Reich

Watch live as Inequality Media co-founder Robert Reich and The Intercept’s Akela Lacy break down the most pressing issues of the midterm elections.

23.10.2026 10

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Giant Crypto Super PAC Funnels Big Money to Former Trump Official’s Firm to Support… Democrats?

The Fellowship PAC routed more than half a million dollars in support of Democrats through a firm co-founded by former Trump crypto adviser Bo Hines.

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Matt Sledge

The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election

“Almost all of the worst ideas in the United States have been intentionally exported to Brazil as a way to make Brazil a worse country that’s more...

23.10.2026 10

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Mamdani’s High-Wire Balancing Act Between ICE and NYPD Can’t Last

The New York City mayor has said he doesn’t want to “normalize” ICE. But the NYPD, led by Jessica Tisch, has other plans.

22.10.2026 10

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Voices

Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract

Sofia Liguori stepped down from DeepMind due to current military contracts — not speculative fears of an AI apocalypse.

21.10.2026 30

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Sam Biddle

Trump’s Obsession With Somalia Isn’t Just Racist. It’s Been Lethal.

Beyond targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Trump administration has killed, arrested, deported, and demonized Somalis at home and abroad.

21.10.2026 10

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Nick Turse

Kohen Wiley’s Family Says Investigators Didn’t Contact Them Before Concluding Cops Did No Wrong

Mississippi has yet to release any support for its claim that a “thorough and impartial” review showed the shooting was “justified.”

20.10.2026 10

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Liliana Segura

Yemenis Unable to Reach Hospital Are Part of the Iran War Death Toll

At least 10 patients with kidney failure near Taiz, a city under a Houthi siege, died because they were unable to get to their dialysis treatments.

20.10.2026 10

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Rachid Mohsen

Mike Rogers Spent $100K on Private Jets and Luxury Travel Last Quarter

The Republican running for Senate in Michigan is directing campaign funds toward chartered flights, a Miami car service, and BMW repairs.

19.10.2026 30

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Jonah Valdez

The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong?

Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries.

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Sam Biddle

President Apocalypse

While Trump campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize, his war on humanity’s only home continues unabated.

18.10.2026 10

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Tom Engelhardt

Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It?

With Democrats campaigning on ending the war, advocates want them to put their money where their mouth is and risk a lame-duck shutdown.

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Matt Sledge

DHS Was Designed as a Weapon

Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and the years of “counterterror” surveillance that...

16.10.2026 10

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Long After the Maui Fires, Toxic Metals Linger in Residents’ Bodies

The toxic exposures didn’t begin with the flames. Researchers are examining how fires affected a community already harmed by plantation agriculture,...

16.10.2026 20

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Joseph Lee

Lockheed Martin Showered Susan Collins With Cash as F-35 Program Hit Turbulence

Collins received tens of thousands from Lockheed during a two-month period surrounding a critical 2023 watchdog report.

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Noah Hurowitz

Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.

15.10.2026 10

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Voices

America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment

Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution was not without precedent — it tapped into a dark and forgotten U.S. tradition.

15.10.2026 10

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Nikita Mazurov

Inside ICE, Officials Question String of Trump Admin “Midterm Panic Moves”

One ICE official said the timing of the raid on Ilhan Omar’s home was “politically motivated.”

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Karl Loftus

Mother Sues ICE Contractor for Jailing Her and Her Baby in a Hotel Room

The lawsuit alleges that the contractor MVM Inc. and the hotel chain Sonesta detained the family for profit.

15.10.2026 20

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Aura Bogado

Reflecting on the Trump Era

Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation should have been an easy lift. But it quickly became a monument to failure.

14.10.2026 10

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Nick Turse

An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.

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Voices

Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

13.10.2026 10

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Jessica Washington

ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get

With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing.

12.10.2026 10

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Voices

Susan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland... Oregon

The group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state.

12.10.2026 20

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Noah Hurowitz

Trump Wanted Minneapolis 15 Case to Be Another Prairieland. Instead, Twin Cities Rallied Behind Anti-ICE Activists.

The mainstream of Minnesota’s left-of-center politics — including unions, the backbone of Democratic power — are behind the radical left.

12.10.2026 10

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Matt Sledge

Pentagon Finally Counts an Iran War Death — Six Months Late

After months of questions from The Intercept, the U.S. military finally acknowledged the March death of Maj. Sorffly Davius.

12.10.2026 20

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Nick Turse

A C-Section in Shackles: A Palestinian Woman’s Harrowing Birth in Israeli Detention

Dana Joudeh was denied proper food and medical care throughout her pregnancy in an Israeli prison. She gave birth to a premature baby surrounded by...

10.10.2026 30

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Aseel Mousa