Trump’s Religious Advisers See Iran as a Holy War for End Times
Head of the White House Faith Office Paula White-Cain sings as she stands next to Donald Trump and other religious leaders during a National Day of Prayer event in the [...]
Trump’s FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Rea…
Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Grapevine, Texas, US, March 27, 2026. Photo: Shelby Tauber / Bloomberg via Getty Images When [...]
Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next
The Trump administration’s war on Iran is reckless and ill-planned, four government officials briefed on the attacks told The Intercept. Even in classified briefings, Trump administration officials laid out no [...]
Trump Uses the Courts to Intimidate Critics. The Media Must Fight Bac…
Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb 23, 2026. Photo: Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images The Trump administration is embracing an [...]
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The library is seen through a window at the Rensselaer County Jail in Troy, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Photo: Lori Van Buren/Albany Times Union via Getty Images Jeremy Busby is [...]
Did Trump Just Confess to Attacking Venezuela?
President Donald Trump said in a radio interview that the United States had knocked out “a big facility” last week as part of his administration’s ongoing pressure campaign to topple [...]
Bari Weiss Is Doing Exactly What She Was Installed At CBS to Do
Bari Weiss speaks onstage during Book Club Event With Peggy Noonan on November 19, 2024 in New York City. Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press The media world [...]
U.S. Realizes It Can Seize Boats After All
U.S. forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, two government sources familiar with the matter told The Intercept. President Donald Trump called the boat the [...]
U.S. Military Documents Indicate Plans to Keep Troops in Caribbean Th…
The United States is formulating plans to feed a massive military presence in the Caribbean almost to the end of President Donald Trump’s term in office — suggesting the recent [...]
ICE to Hold Immigrants in Jail Accused of “Excessive, Invasive” Gynec…
The Trump administration is planning to detain immigrants at a Georgia jail that became known for allegations that women detained there were subjected to non-consensual gynecological procedures, multiple sources told [...]
What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa
Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the White House in Washington on Sept. 25, 2025. Photo: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images Matthew Whitley is a writer, poet, and co-editor [...]
Amid DSCC Pressure, Dem Populist J.D. Scholten Exits Iowa Senate Race
Democrat J.D. Scholten, a two-term Iowa state House representative and former candidate for Iowa’s fourth congressional district, announced Monday that he intends to withdraw from the Iowa Senate primary, ending [...]
Zohran Mamdani and the “Black Vote”
Zohran Mamdani participates in an endorsement event in New York City on July 10, 2025.Photo: Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of Stakes Is High: [...]
Trump Administration Expels Eight Men to War-Torn South Sudan
The Trump administration succeeded in its quest to deport the eight men it imprisoned on a U.S. military base in Djibouti to violence-plagued South Sudan on Saturday, expanding its globe-spanning [...]
ICE Arrests Strikes Fear in Iranian Communities Since Israel’s War
The brief war between Israel, Iran, and the United States appears to be over for now. But for many Iranian immigrants to the United States, a new period of uncertainty [...]
War Powers Resolution From House Democratic Leaders May Not Limit Tru…
As Democrats try to push forward legislation that would block further strikes on Iran, one measure advanced by House leadership could actually strengthen the Trump administration’s justification for subsequent attacks, [...]
Mahmoud Khalil and Necropolitics of Trump’s Attack on Immigrants
People protest against ICE’s arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil outside the Newark courthouse on March 27, 2025, in Newark, N.J. by Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Donald Trump’s administration moved [...]
ICE Got Columbia Warrant Under “False Pretenses”
Earlier this month, while hunting for Columbia University students to deport over their ties to Gaza protests, the Trump administration convinced a federal judge to sign off on search warrants [...]
Trump Cut Columbia Funds Despite Crackdown on Gaza Protests
Protesters demonstrate in front of police along the perimeter of the Columbia University campus in NYC on April 30, 2024. Photo: Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP Columbia University could hardly have [...]
DOGE Said It Cut $232 Million From Social Security Budget. It Was Onl…
The “Department of Government Efficiency” claimed to have saved the American taxpayer nearly $232 million by canceling an IT contract for the Social Security Administration. They were only off by [...]
Palestinians Vow to Remain, Rebuild
Mansour Abo Kareem stood in front of piles of rubble where his home used to be and condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to permanently expel all Palestinian from Gaza. [...]
She Lost Her Dad to Trump’s Killing Spree, Wants Biden to Clear His N…
Bethany Bourgeois-George unlocked the door to the aluminum mailbox of her downtown Vancouver condo on the morning of August 16, 2021, only to find the letter she had been dreading: [...]
He Leaked Trump’s Tax Returns. Will Biden Protect Him?
Earlier this month, a group of professors from the normally stodgy world of tax law wrote to President Joe Biden calling on him to free the IRS contractor who leaked [...]
Why Crypto Billionaires Want to Flip Sherrod Brown’s Senate Seat
After two elections where he bucked Ohio’s rightward trend, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown is clinging to the narrowest of polling leads. If he loses to unpopular car salesman Bernie Moreno [...]
U.S. Democracy Hangs on Two Men’s Egos
Former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., on Oct. 22, 2020. Photo: AFP via Getty Images [...]