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Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, during an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday June 2, 2023. Khan said Pakistan's military establishment wanted to stop his opposition party from winning the next election, paving the way for a weak government as the country seeks to stave off a financial crisis. Photographer: Betsy Joles/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure to Remove Imran Khan

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain

“All will be forgiven,” said a U.S. diplomat, if the no-confidence vote against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan succeeds.

Deconstructed Podcast

How the U.S. Makes Its Wars Invisible

Norman Solomon, a longtime peace activist, explains America’s magician’s trick.

UNITED STATES - JULY 26: David Grusch, former National Reconnaissance Office representative on the Defense Department's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, testifies during the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

UFO Whistleblower Kept Security Clearance After Psychiatric Detention

Ken Klippenstein

The star witness of Congress’s UFO hearings, David Grusch, retained his clearance despite alleged substance abuse issues, FOIA documents reveal.

Umar Khalid Challenged Modi’s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Accused Him of Terrorism and Locked Him Up.

ORLANDO, FL - MARCH 22: Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Employees are staging a company-wide walkout today to protest Walt Disney Co.'s response to controversial legislation passed in Florida known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames

Natasha Lennard

A Taliban scurity personnel stands guard next to prisioners waiting for their release from the central prison in Kandahar on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP) (Photo by SANAULLAH SEIAM/AFP via Getty Images)

As the Taliban Hunts Prosecutors, Afghan and U.S. Lawyers Team Up to Bring Their Colleagues to Safety

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a campaign event on July 31, 2023, in Rochester, N.H.

DeSantis Still Can’t Find Enough Employees for His Voter Fraud Crackdown

Podcasts

Deconstructed

How the U.S. Makes Its Wars Invisible

Deconstructed

United by Necessity: How the American Revolution Averted Civil War

Voices

A poster demanding a federal $15-per-hour minimum wage is seen near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. The Senate scramble over raising the federal minimum wage is presenting the first major test of the uneasy alliance between the Democratic Partys vocal progressive wing and President Joe Biden just 37 days into his administration. Photographer: Erin Scott/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Big Myth About “Free” Markets That Justified History’s Greatest Heist

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis sits in a courtroom in the Fulton county courthouse, Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Atlanta. A grand jury being seated Tuesday in Atlanta will likely consider whether criminal charges are appropriate for former President Donald Trump or his Republican allies for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

All the President’s Crimes

I Was Just Subpoenaed by Trump’s Georgia Grand Jury. Here’s What I’ll Tell Them.

Politics

FILE: Leon Black, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. After months of ugly headlines about his business dealings with notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Black has stepped down as Apollo Global Management chief executive officer. Insiders, speaking on the condition they not be named, described the drama late Monday after the board revealed that Black had paid a startling $158 million for Epsteins advice. Still, the iconic dealmaker will remain chairman, while his preferred partner replaces him as chief executive officer. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Private Equity Billionaire Tied to Jeffrey Epstein Led Industry Backing for Kyrsten Sinema

Daniel Boguslaw

BORYSPIL, UKRAINE - JANUARY 25: An airport vehicle pulls a portion of a shipment of weapons that include Javelin anti-tank missiles and other military hardware delivered on a National Airlines plane by the United States military at Boryspil Airport near Kyiv on January 25, 2022 in Boryspil, Ukraine. The shipment comes as tensions between the NATO military alliance and Russia are intensifying due to Russia's move of tens of thousands of troops as well as heavy weapons to the Ukrainian border, causing international fears of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. The U.S., Great Britain and other NATO countries have sent arms in recent days to Ukraine in a bid to deter an invasion. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Senate Democrats Blocked Watchdog for Ukraine Aid — Ignoring Lessons From Afghanistan

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2020, file photo, Jeff Clark, then-Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed the former Justice Department lawyer. The panel on Oct. 13, 2021, said it is seeking documents and testimony fromc Clark, who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

All the President’s Crimes

The Man With No Pants Is the Star of Donald Trump’s Latest Indictment

FILE - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the State of the State address on the House floor of the state Capitol, Jan. 25, 2023, in Atlanta. The Republican Kemp announced final tax collections for 2023 on Wednesday, July 12, indicating the state will run a roughly $5 billion surplus for the budget year just ended. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)

Reformist DAs Sue Georgia Over Law to Remove Elected Prosecutors — Including One Probing Donald Trump

Justice

A joint patrol between soldiers from the 1st Platoon, 1-64 Armored Batallion of the US Army, operating under NATO command, walks through Morghan-Khecha village in Daman district, Kandahar province on September 8, 2012. Afghanistan's first vice president on September 8 warned deteriorating security could jeopardize transparent elections in 2014 as Kabul prepares to take over from NATO troops. President Hamid Karzai, who has been the only elected head of state in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down the Taliban, is due to stand down in 2014. His re-election in 2009 was accompanied by widespread fraud and the international community sees the next vote as one of the last major hurdles before NATO combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

War Criminal’s Bid to Become Lawyer Faces Obstacle: His Own Troops

Murtaza Hussain

The Online Christian Counterinsurgency Against Sex Workers

Jack Poulson, Sam Biddle

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before a raid to arrest immigrants considered a threat to public safety and national security during an early morning raid in Compton, Calif., Monday, June 6, 2022. This weekend, the Biden administration said it would suspend an order prioritizing the arrest and deportation of immigrants considered a threat to public safety and national security in order to comply with a ruling earlier in June 2022 from a Texas judge. Many otherwise law-abiding immigrants living here illegally will now be afraid to leave their homes out of concern they'll be detained. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Protests for Black Lives

Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Routinely Undercount Use-of-Force Incidents

Migrants that arrived from Mexico look at their phones as they wait for transportation near a processing center, in Brownsville, Texas on May 10, 2023. The US on May 11, 2023, will officially end its 40-month Covid-19 emergency, also discarding the Title 42 law, a tool that has been used to prevent millions of migrants from entering the country. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Texas State Police Purchased Israeli Phone-Tracking Software for “Border Emergency”

Sam Biddle, Ryan Devereaux

National Security

TOPSHOT - Protesters hold a Niger flag during a demonstration on independence day in Niamey on August 3, 2023. Hundreds of people backing the coup in Niger gathered on August 3, 2023 for a mass rally in the capital Niamey with some brandishing giant Russian flags. The demonstrators converged at Concertation Square in the heart of the city, following a call by a coalition of civil society associations on a day marking the country's 1960 independence from France. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

At Least Five Members of Niger Junta Were Trained by U.S.

A protester kneels down as tear gas is deployed by Colorado Springs law enforcement during a protest against police brutality on Saturday, May 30, 2020. The demonstration was one of many across the country Saturday prompted by the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (Chancey Bush/The Gazette via AP)

Lawsuit Targets FBI Probe of Racial Justice Activists

Trevor Aaronson

WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES - JULY 3: Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters building in Washington D.C., United States on July 3, 2023. (Photo by Celal GÃ¼neÅ/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

After His Mother Asked for Help, FBI Terrorism Sting Targets Mentally Ill Teen

Murtaza Hussain

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Johnathan Braga, U.S. Army Special Operations commander, meets with Brig. Gen. Moussa Barmou, Niger Special Operations Forces commander, to discuss anti-terrorism policy and tactics throughout Niger, at Air Base 101, Niger, June 12, 2023. U.S. Department of Defense agencies partner with the Nigerien Army and Special Operators to bolster anti-violent extremist organization action throughout Northwest Africa. (US Air Force video by Staff Sgt. Amy Younger)

Niger Coup Leader Joins Long Line of U.S.-Trained Mutineers

World

Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on a phone screen as he attends a joint statement with President of Comoros Azali Assoumani at the Russia Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 28, 2023. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

A Pro-Putin Facebook Network Is Pumping French-Language Propaganda Into Africa

TOPSHOT - Supporters of Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum gather to show their support for him in Niamey on July 26, 2023. An attempted coup was underway on July 26, 2023 in the fragile state of Niger, where members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, triggering a standoff with the army, sources said. The West African bloc ECOWAS and the African Union lashed what they called an "attempted coup d'etat," a term echoed by a source close to Bazoum. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Soldiers Mutiny in U.S.-Allied Niger

Members of Wagner group inspect a car in a street of Rostov-on-Don, on June 24, 2023. President Vladimir Putin on June 24, 2023 said an armed mutiny by Wagner mercenaries was a "stab in the back" and that the group's chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had betrayed Russia, as he vowed to punish the dissidents. Prigozhin said his fighters control key military sites in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Wagner Group Disappeared and Executed Civilians in Mali

Wanted for Murder, an Army Vet Escaped to Ukraine — and Fought the Russians

Technology

As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900,000 AI Job

Ken Klippenstein

5760 U.S. Air Force Lockheed MC-130J Commando II Hercules (STRIX36) of the 67th Special Operations Squadron (Night Owls) on its final approach into RAF Marham, near the village of Marham, England, UK on 16 July 2020. (Photo by Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via AP)

Pentagon Joins Elon Musk’s War Against Plane Tracking

FILE - In an Aug. 10, 2015 file photo, protester and social media activist DeRay McKesson records outside the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Courthouse Monday, in St. Louis. Mckesson has joined the crowded 2016 Baltimore mayoral race. Maryland's State Board of Elections shows that he filed Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2016, to run in the Democratic primary along with 12 other candidates. Photo: Jeff Roberson/AP

FBI Hired Social Media Surveillance Firm That Labeled Black Lives Matter Organizers “Threat Actors”

Ken Klippenstein

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a man during an operation, March 15, 2023, in Oceanside, Calif.

The War on Immigrants

LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes

Environment

FILE - In this March 17, 2017 file photo, Canyon Mansfield holds the collar of his dog, Casey, who was killed March 16 by a cyanide-ejecting device placed on public land by federal workers to kill coyotes near his home in Pocatello, Idaho. The cyanide device, called an M-44, is spring-activated and shoots poison that is meant to kill predators. Federal officials have agreed to stop using predator-killing cyanide traps on Colorado public lands amid pressure to ban the devices nationwide after one injured an Idaho teenager and killed his dog. (Jordon Beesley/Idaho State Journal via AP, file)

Secretive Federal Agency’s Days of Killing Pets With Poison Bombs May Finally Be Ending

An action outside of the Covanta incineration facility in Chester, PA hosted by Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) and Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) on June 10, 2023. This is part of EQAT's Never Vanguard campaign, highlighting the dirty investments in polluting facilities in Chester and along the Delaware River, explaining the human cost of putting profit over people and the planet. Emily Whitney for The Intercept

Energy Company Plotted Gas Plant in Small Pennsylvania Town — But No One Told Residents

FILE - The sun sets at wind farm in McCook, Texas during a heat wave on July 20, 2022. Both sides of the political spectrum have their say about ESG: It’s either just a label that costs more, or it’s saving the world. Environmental, social and corporate governance criteria are factors for evaluating investments and companies, but have those criteria created any change? (Delcia Lopez/The Monitor via AP, File)

The Right’s Desperate Push to Tank ESG and Avoid Disclosing Climate Risks

A hummingbird visits a blooming yucca plant in the Borderlands Wildlife Preserve in Patagonia, Arizona, on June 20, 2023. Credit: Molly Peters for The Intercept

Biden Fast-Tracked a Green Energy Mine in One of Earth’s Rarest Ecosystems. Arizona Locals Took It to Court.