The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War
Mohammad Ali Kialha’s first hours were all he knew of peace. He was born on February 26 in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Two days later, President Donald Trump began his war [...]
The Intercept Sues Trump for Selling Premium Truth Social Access
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Donald Trump and his staff Wednesday, challenging a Trump-owned media company’s plan to monetize the president’s social media posts. [...]
State Department Wants Palantir to Advise on Free Speech
The Trump administration tapped a surveillance giant with a record of attacking the press to advise the State Department on free speech. Among the partners for the State Department’s new [...]
Intel Pick Jay Clayton Won’t Tell Congress Whether Trump Ordered Subp…
At his confirmation hearing to serve as the nation’s top intelligence officer, Jay Clayton dodged questions about whether the White House ordered him to send subpoenas to New York Times [...]
Local Cops Echo Trump’s “Terrorist Org” Attacks on Antifa
A month after Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to designate antifa as a domestic terrorist group, an intelligence unit inside the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office in Florida sent out [...]
How Florida’s Cuban Diaspora and the Israeli Lobby Came Together — an…
After a devastating earthquake rocked Venezuela last week, President Donald Trump backed off his claims to be “in charge” of the country he invaded in January — which might imply [...]
30-Year Prison Sentence In Prairieland Zine Case Is a Free Speech Cri…
Supporters of the Prairieland defendants display pamphlets and artwork after their sentencing outside a Fort Worth, Texas, courthouse on June 23, 2026. Photo: Matt Sledge/The Intercept Seth Stern is the director [...]
Ex-Trump Campaign Chief Funneled Israeli Money to Allies’ Firms
A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from [...]
Never Apologize
Ousted FBI Director James Comey listens during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill on June 8, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty [...]
Sources: U.S. Personnel Killed in Mexico Worked for CIA
Two U.S. officials who died in Mexico on Sunday worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, two sources told The Intercept. They are among the first known fatalities of President Donald [...]
State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extraj…
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights “lacks the competence” to review Trump’s campaign of deadly boat strikes, a State Department spokesperson said. Inter-American Commission on Human... ... Continue reading this [...]
We Called Out the Pentagon for Undercounting U.S. Casualties in Iran….
The Pentagon continues to peddle misleading U.S. casualty figures from the Iran war, even after The Intercept reported on what one defense official called a “casualty cover-up.” Pressed for a [...]
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 [...]
Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars
In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after oil prices jumped and the growing regional conflict continued to [...]
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 [...]
What Does Trump Want With Cuba?
Cuba is spiraling into a humanitarian crisis. The country’s long-standing economic and political turmoil reached new heights this week as the effects of the Trump administration’s oil blockade took hold. [...]
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 [...]
Vote to Block Venezuela War Fails After Trump Bullies GOP
President Donald Trump’s furious public pressure campaign succeeded Wednesday night in flipping the votes of two Republican senators who last week supported blocking further attacks on Venezuela. A bipartisan war [...]
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 [...]
Bipartisan House Measure Seeks to Block Trump Venezuela War
With President Donald Trump mulling military action, lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a war powers resolution to block strikes on Venezuela. Sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., 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 [...]
Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Ris…
President Donald Trump’s military occupations of U.S. cities have cost nearly half a billion dollars, according to an expert estimate provided exclusively to The Intercept. The current $473 million price [...]
Admiral’s Mystery Retirement Amid Secret War Leaves SOUTHCOM in Turmo…
U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean, is in turmoil after the announcement of the sudden retirement of the four-star Navy admiral overseeing that [...]
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, [...]
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 planned June 14 military parade, and Trump himself. Ground zero [...]
What Is “Efilism,” Espoused by Anti-Natalist Palm Springs Bomber?
When a 25-year-old detonated a car bomb and himself outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on Saturday, the local interim federal prosecutor, a Donald Trump appointee, was quick [...]
Republicans Sneak Nonprofit Killer Bill in Tail End of Trump’s 389-Pa…
To advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cuts, House Republicans on Monday unveiled a proposal that could hand him a powerful new tool to go after his political enemies. The [...]
Pentagon Nuked Advisory Board Website After Tucker Carlson Attack
The Pentagon quietly scrubbed an advisory board’s website after a fired aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth complained that it was stocked with holdovers hostile to President Donald Trump who [...]
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 [...]
Trump’s Election Is Also a Win for Tech’s Right-Wing “Warrior Class”
Donald Trump pitched himself to voters as a supposed anti-interventionist candidate of peace. But when he reenters the White House in January, at his side will be a phalanx of [...]
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 [...]
Bitcoin Bros, MAGA Faithful Converge in Nashville and Embrace Alterna…
It was an hour before the motorcade was set to arrive in downtown Nashville, and the lady in the “Trump Save America” T-shirt was explaining why she hates Kamala Harris. [...]
The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose
Law enforcement officials at the scene of an attack that injured Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP A bipartisan sampling of the world’s greatest [...]
Trump’s Camp Says It Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025 Manifesto – …
The Trump campaign attempted to distance itself from the conservative Project 2025 playbook on Friday. Despite significant overlap between Project 2025 personnel and staffers from former president Donald Trump’s administration [...]