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Deconstructed

Each week The Intercept’s Washington, D.C. bureau brings you one important or overlooked story from the political world. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim and a rotating cast of journalists, politicians, academi... Read more

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Filibuster or Bust

Filibuster or Bust

If President Joe Biden is going to be able to pass any part of his agenda, he'll need to get it past the Senate filibust... Read more

5 Feb 2021

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Do Democrats Risk Repeating the Mistakes of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Covid-19?

Do Democrats Risk Repeating the Mistakes of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Covid-19?

As the US economy was spiralling out of control in 2008 and 2009, economist James Galbraith predicted that an insufficie... Read more

17 Sep 2020

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Intercept Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Intercept Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins Intercept reporters Ryan Grim and Briahna Joy Gray for an in-depth conversation about her... Read more

28 Jan 2019

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Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment

Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment

The House Judiciary Committee held its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday, with testimony from a quartet of legal sc... Read more

5 Dec 2019

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Midterms Special: Who Won, Who Lost, and What Happens Next?

Midterms Special: Who Won, Who Lost, and What Happens Next?

The most important, historic, and consequential midterm election of our lives is over. It wasn’t quite a blue wave, but ... Read more

7 Nov 2018

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Texas Republicans Ran a Twenty-Year Experiment. The Results Are In.

Texas Republicans Ran a Twenty-Year Experiment. The Results Are In.

In the early 2000s, after gaining control of the Texas House of Representatives for the first time in modern history, Re... Read more

19 Feb 2021

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Could the For the People Act Save American Democracy?

Could the For the People Act Save American Democracy?

H.R.1, also known as the For The People Act, is a sweeping reform bill that aims to make voting easier, gerrymandering h... Read more

1 Feb 2021

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Why Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims?

Why Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims?

It’s been described as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a mill... Read more

29 Dec 2019

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Who Won Last Night’s Democratic Debate?

Who Won Last Night’s Democratic Debate?

In the days leading up to the November Democratic debate in Atlanta, everyone seemed to agree that attacks on Pete Butti... Read more

21 Nov 2019

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Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Trump, Islamophobia, and His Presidential Bid

Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Trump, Islamophobia, and His Presidential Bid

Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is not a traditional candidate for the nation’s highest office. But recent... Read more

21 Mar 2019

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The Bernie Sanders Interview

The Bernie Sanders Interview

With three months to go until the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders finds himself fighting to make headway against the other... Read more

7 Nov 2019

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The White Supremacy Court Upholds the Muslim Ban

The White Supremacy Court Upholds the Muslim Ban

On Tuesday the Supreme Court handed the president a huge victory in Trump v. Hawaii, the case challenging the legality o... Read more

26 Jun 2018

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Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism

Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism

Many have attributed Bernie Sanders’ loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries to a poor showing among black voters.... Read more

7 Mar 2019

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Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Barack Obama was one of the most polarizing presidents of the modern era. To the right, he was a weak, feckless leader a... Read more

22 Jun 2018

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Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview

Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview

Linguist, activist, and political theorist Noam Chomsky has been speaking out against U.S. interventionism from Vietnam ... Read more

31 Oct 2019

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Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.?

Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.?

Over the past few days, 11 people were massacred in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the country’s top Democrats have been tar... Read more

29 Oct 2018

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Does Liberal Canada Have a Dark Side?

Does Liberal Canada Have a Dark Side?

Liberals across the West often imagine Canada as a progressive paradise — a tolerant land, welcoming to immigrants, wher... Read more

14 Nov 2019

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Is Trump Trying to Start a War with Iran?

Is Trump Trying to Start a War with Iran?

The president announced withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, citing Israeli intel purporting to show that I... Read more

11 May 2018

29mins

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Elizabeth Warren v. the District of Corruption

Elizabeth Warren v. the District of Corruption

Between appointing his daughter and son-in-law to senior White House positions, engaging in business deals with foreign ... Read more

8 Jun 2018

29mins

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How The Trumps Screwed Palestine

How The Trumps Screwed Palestine

Two Palestinians join Mehdi Hasan to discuss U.S. coverage of Jerusalem and how to get prominent Democratic politicians ... Read more

18 May 2018

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