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Abdul El-Sayed Wants to Be the First Pro-Palestine Senator From Michigan

In a tight Democratic primary, El-Sayed is trying to distinguish himself as one of two candidates running from the left.

CARACAS, VENEZUELA - SEPTEMBER 01: President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro listens to questions from journalists during a press conference at Hotel Melia Caracas on September 01, 2025 in Caracas, Venezuela. Maduro stated that his government is targeted by 8 military ships and 1,200 misiles; what he called the largest threat on Venezuela in the last 100 years. (Photo by Jesus Vargas/Getty Images)

Rubio Says Maduro is Terrorist-in-Chief of Venezuela’s “Cártel de los Soles.” Is It Even a Real Group?

The Trump administration’s push for war on Venezuela includes alleging Maduro controls a government-run “narcoterrorist” conspiracy.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 3: U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on November 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Today marks the 34th day of the stalemate between Republicans and Democrats, leading into what could be America's longest funding lapse. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling

Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations.

Collateral Damage

Episode Seven: Dirty Information

Chilling Dissent

How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine

CARACAS, VENEZUELA - NOVEMBER 15: Supporters of President Maduro participate in a march to swear in the Bolivarian Grassroots Committees in Caracas, Venezuela, on November 15, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Mattey/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq

Voices

Don’t Let Larry Summers Back Into Polite Society

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

Saikat Chakrabarti’s Plan for the Political Revolution

Collateral Damage

Episode Six: Airborne Imperialism

Voices

A demonstrator holds a poster reading "UCLA Faculty for a Free Palestine" as UCLA faculty and staff members demonstrate next to the pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, on May 1, 2024. Dozens of police cars patrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles campus in response to violent clashes overnight when counter-protesters attacked an encampment of pro-Palestinian students. (Photo by Etienne LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Judge Rules Trump Can’t Cut UC Funding — but UC Leaders Are Still Negotiating a Settlement

Natasha Lennard

TOPSHOT - A protester holds a sign related to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 12, 2025. Democrats released emails Wednesday in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested Donald Trump was aware of the disgraced financier's sexual abuse and had "spent hours" with one of his victims at his house. Trump has denied any knowledge of the sex-trafficking activities of his former friend, who died by suicide in 2019 as he was in prison awaiting trial, and the White House accused Democrats of pushing a "fake narrative" by sharing the mails. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Voices

Epstein Is the Only Thing That Could Turn Trump’s Base Against Him

Politics

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 7, 2021: On Capitol Hill at the US Capitol building broken windows and shattered glass with pepper spray dust covering floors and broken furniture is the scene the day after hundreds of rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC January 7, 2021. Protestor debris on the East Front steps in front of the entrance to the Rotunda. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say

You Will Never Send Money Digitally Without a Private Company — If the GOP Gets Its Way

Participants wearing face coverings and military attile gather for an annual "memorial hike" of Hungarian and foreign participants of several neo-Nazi groups in Budapest on February 8, 2025. Hungarian police were on alert on February 8 ahead of divisive annual WWII-linked events in Budapest that sparked violence between neo-Nazis and anti-fascist activists in the past. European far-right groups gather in Budapest each year for the so-called "Day of Honour" to mark a failed attempt by Nazi and Hungarian troops in 1945 to break out of the city during the Soviet army's siege. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP) (Photo by ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Marco Rubio Wants to Imprison You on Terror Charges for Supporting Nazi Punchers

How to Track Kash Patel’s Jet

Justice

Richard Glossip in an Oklahoma City courthouse for a hearing on Oct. 30, 2025.

Judge Failed to Disclose Personal Ties to Prosecutor in Two Death Row Cases

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES - 2024/06/07: An activist holding a sign with No Pride in Genocide is written on it while joining in the Dyke March. Lesbian activists taking part in the Dyke March, gathered at Lafayette Square near the White House and then march to Dupont Circle in Washington DC. The Dyke March always protests corporatization of Pride, but this year's theme was Dykes Against Genocide. (Photo by Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide

The War on Immigrants

Lawmaker Challenges ICE Plan to Hire Bounty Hunters

PORTLAND, OR - JULY 24: A federal officer stands guard inside the perimeter fence of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse on Thursday, July 24, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protesters continued to clash with federal officers Friday morning as President Trump announced plans to deploy similar federal forces to other U.S. cities. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Trump’s Federal Cops Just Gave Themselves Expansive Anti-Protest Powers Targeting Masks

National Security

How Many People Has the U.S. Killed in Boat Strikes?

Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising

How Christian Nationalism Is Shaping Trump’s Foreign Policy Toward Africa

Jessica Washington

World

Nooh Al-shaghnobi in Gaza

Gazans Reflect on Surviving to See a Ceasefire: “Sometimes We Envy the Martyrs”

TOPSHOT - Palestinian hospital staff and well-wishers welcome the director of northern Gaza's Al-Awda Hospital Dr. Ahmad Mhanna, who was detained by Israeli forces from the hospital on December 18, 2023, following his release and arrival at the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Dozens of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared in Israeli Detention

Kavitha Chekuru

GAZA CITY, GAZA - OCTOBER 16: A view of the area as many Palestinian families who were forced to migrate south due to Israeli attacks return to the Islamic University, where they previously stayed, as a ceasefire is established, despite many buildings being destroyed or heavily damaged by the attacks, on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - JANUARY 13: Chief Spokesperson European Commission, Paula Pinho speaks during the daily press meeting in Brussels, Belgium on January 13, 2025. Pinho stated the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen continues her treatment in Hannover. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.

Technology

A Redfin sign in front of a home for sale in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Redfin Corp. is shuttering its iBuying business and laying off workers for the second time in almost five months, as the likelihood of a prolonged US housing slowdown continues to ripple through the industry. Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Real Estate Giant Redfin Exposed Users’ Personal Info on Listing Contact Forms

Chilling Dissent

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

Nikita Mazurov, Jonah Valdez

Agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit during a traffic stop near the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump threatened that prosecutors would seek the death penalty for anyone found guilty of murder in Washington, DC, a move that would escalate his crime crackdown in the nation's capital. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The War on Immigrants

ICE Investigations, Powered by Nvidia

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knock on the door of a residence during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation effort in US history, vowing to ultimately deport all of the foreigners living in the country without permission. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The War on Immigrants

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Environment

A serpentine river near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska on September 11, 2022.

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

The new US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

Jessica Washington

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Members of the Sunrise Movement are arrested as they protest outside the Senate office of Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement, a climate change political action group, held signs accusing Vance of being in the pocket of big oil companies. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump

Israeli excavators demolish some of constructions belonging to Palestinians for allegedly being unauthorized at Dura district in Hebron, West Bank on September 23, 2020.

Israel’s War on Gaza

USAID Cuts Help Push West Bank Into Extreme Water Shortages