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Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021.

The War on Immigrants

Trump Travel Ban Punishes Victims of the U.S. War Machine

Trump’s latest travel ban hits Afghans who aided the U.S. in its failed 20-year war.

Participants march with Priceless during the NYC Pride March in New York, NY on June 30, 2024. (Photo by Hailstorm Visuals/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Voices

Corporate Pride Is Dying. Good.

The sudden withdrawal of big corporate sponsors from Pride events is an opportunity, not a crisis.

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 16: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators from healthcare workers gather to demonstrate against Israeli airstrike on hospitals in front of Federal Plaza in Chicago, Illinois, United States on November 16, 2023. (Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

A Doctor Said Israel’s War Is Fueling Health Crises in Gaza. UCSF Fired Her.

Dr. Rupa Marya of San Francisco is suing for discrimination after her university punished her for speaking out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

NEW YORK, USA - JUNE 2: Columbia University alumni organizes a demonstration at the entrance of the school in support of the Pro-Palestinian students as they launched a new tent protest called "Rafah Uprising" a month after the New York police dismantled the "Gaza Solidarity Camp" inside the university in New York, USA on June 2, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

How the FBI Sought a Warrant to Search Instagram of Columbia Student Protesters

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 04: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks onstage ADL's Never Is Now at Javits Center on March 03, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League)

Voices

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack

Natasha Lennard

Protestors rallied in front of the Supreme Court on April 2, 2025, as the Justices heard the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.

The End of Roe

Trump Puts Lives at Risk by Revoking Emergency Abortion Guidelines for Hospitals

Jessica Washington

OpenAI’s Pitch to Trump: Rank the World on U.S. Tech Interests

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

How Student Protesters and Immigrants Became Targets of Trump’s Surveillance Tech

The Intercept Briefing

She Exposed Government Abuse. Now She’s Locked Up in an El Salvador Prison.

Voices

Voices

Marco Rubio Is Attacking American Education. International Students Are His Pawns.

Natasha Lennard

A Palestinian man carries a dead child at Nasser Hospital, Khan Yunis, Gaza on May 24, 2025.

Voices

How to Write About Palestine

Sisonke Msimang

Politics

Tens of thousands of people gather at a rally by conservative group in Seoul, South Korea on May 31, 2025.

How the Korean Right Turned MAGA Ahead of Tomorrow’s Election

Joe Rogan reacts during UFC 249 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on May 09, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida.

The Futile Quest to Build a “Liberal Joe Rogan”

Jessica Washington

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 26: Subcommittee Chairwoman U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-SC) speaks in front of a photo of drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. The heads of NPR and PBS appeared before the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency to address allegations of bias in their programming against conservatives. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

PBS Station Wipes Drag and Trans Content After DOGE Outcry

Trump’s Big, Beautiful Handout to the AI Industry

Justice

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes speaks about the execution of inmate Aaron Brian Gunches at the Arizona State Prison Wednesday, March 19, 2025 in Florence, Ariz.

The Intercept Sues for Records About Arizona’s Financial Surveillance Dragnet

The War on Immigrants

Weapons Violations, Misconduct, and Whistleblower Retaliation at ICE

An animal rights activist holds a sign while protesting at the Farmer John slaughterhouse in Vernon, California, Monday, Feb 15, 2021.

Chilling Dissent

How the FBI and Big Ag Started Treating Animal Rights Activists as Bioterrorists

The helicopter involved in a fatal crash with an American Airlines jet at Washington Reagan Airport is visible on a barge after being recovered from the Potomac River. The crash killed 67 people on January 30, 2025.

Prosecutors Quietly Drop Charge Over Leaked Video of D.C. Plane Crash

National Security

U.S. Army personnel load and secure military tanks for transport to Washington, D.C., Thursday, May 22, 2025, at Fort Cavazos near Killeen, Texas.

Expect Trump’s Military Parade to Cost More Than the Army Says

U.S. Conducts “Largest Airstrike in the History of the World” (Sort Of)

Trump Said Syria Deserves a “Fresh Start” — But U.S. Troops Aren’t Leaving

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claps during a press conference on social security in front of the U.S. Capitol on May 05, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Trump Army Appointee Should Sell His Anduril Stock, Sen. Warren Demands

World

Palestinians wait in queues to receive food from the charity organization that distributes hot meals, as the food crisis is deepening due to the closed border crossings amid Israeli attacks at the al-Mawasi area in Khan Yunis, Gaza on May 21, 2025.

In Gaza, Famine Is the Weapon — and So Is Aid

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 21: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) greets President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa as he arrives to the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Relations between the two countries have been strained since Trump signed an executive order in February that claimed white South Africans are the victims of government land confiscation and race-based “genocide” while admitting some of those Afrikaners as refugees to the United States. Trump also halted all foreign aid to South Africa and expelled the country’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Voices

How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa

Sisonke Msimang

Eden Golan of Israel enters the arena during the flag parade before the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, Saturday, May 11, 2024.

Chilling Dissent

Audio Analysis: Eurovision Broadcaster Muted Sounds of Crowd Booing and Shouting “Free Palestine!”

Displaced people outside a building on the heavily damaged Islamic University campus where Palestinian families take refuge, in Gaza City, on May 1, 2025.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Students and Teachers in Gaza: “Education Itself Is a Form of Defiance”

Technology

Microsoft Says It’s Censoring Employee Emails Containing the Word “Palestine”

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

People walk past an advertisement feature Donald Trump with Solana, XRP, USDC Bitcoin in Hong Kong.

Senate Dems Hand Trump a Win by Backing Stablecoin Bill

Israel’s War on Gaza

Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal

Environment

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 30: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, accompanied by Education Secretary Linda McMahon (R), speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump convened the meeting as reports released today say the U.S. economy contracted 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025, the first negative reading in three years, fueled by a massive surge in imports ahead of the administration's expected tariffs. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Intense Culture of Fear”: Behind the Scenes as Trump Destroys the EPA From Within

Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup

Schuyler Mitchell

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine

Which LA Fire Victims Get Money on GoFundMe — and Who Gets Left Out?