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381271 02: The Grinch, Played By Jim Carrey, Conspires With His Dog Max To Deprive The Who's Of Their Favorite Holiday In The Live-Action Adaptation Of The Famous Christmas Tale, "Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas," Directed By Ron Howard. (Photo By Getty Images)

Voices

Merry Christmas! We All Belong in Prison at The Hague.

Jon Schwarz, Elise Swain

Because human joy is anathema to us, we direct your holiday attention to your complicity in the violence in Israel and Palestine.

06.09.2018, Israel, Tel Aviv: View of the headquarters of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF). Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa (Photo by Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Exclusive: Israeli Military Censor Bans Reporting on These 8 Subjects

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

The highly unusual, English-language order for the Gaza war breaks from the secretive and informal way IDF censorship normally works.

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 18: Britain's Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, arrives to attend the weekly meeting of Cabinet ministers at 10 Downing Street on July 18, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Voices

A Top U.K. Official Displayed the Terrifying Ignorance of the World’s Leaders on Gaza

Former Defense Minister Ben Wallace wrote about the Hamas charter without mentioning its revision in 2017. We need the people in charge to understand the facts.

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 06: Framed by television cameras, U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a statement urging Congress to pass his national security supplemental from the Roosevelt Room at the White House on December 06, 2023 in Washington, DC. Following a virtual meeting with G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Biden called on Congress to take action on the security budget supplemental request which includes funding to support Israel, Ukraine and added security along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Joe Biden Abstains From Watered-Down U.N. Gaza Resolution, Then Takes Credit Anyway

Poll Shows Student Debt Policy May Be Killing Biden

Illustration of Kelly Siegler and Jeff Prible by Patrick Leger for The Intercept

The Prosecutor and the Snitch Ring

Kelly Siegler Is a True-Crime Celebrity. Did She Frame an Innocent Man for Murder?

Jordan Smith, Liliana Segura

TOPSHOT - In this picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli military on December 15, 2023, an Israeli soldier exits a tunnel that Hamas reportedly used to attack Israel through the Erez border crossing on October 7. The Israeli army said on December 17, 2023 it had uncovered the biggest Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip so far, just a few hundred meters from the Erez border crossing. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Industrial Killing of Civilians in Gaza Won’t Defeat the Armed Insurgency

Podcasts

Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), take part in a press conference with Rabbis4Ceasefire calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. To date, 1400 Israelis and more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Hamas attacks and Israeli military response. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via AP)

Deconstructed

“The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War

Intercepted

How Israel Commodifies Mass Killing Through Its “Palestine Laboratory”

Voices

KYIV, UKRAINE - OCTOBER 06, 2022 - Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power is pictured during her interview to a correspondent of the Ukrinform Ukrainian National News Agency, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. (Photo credit should read Yevhen Kotenko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Voices

Samantha Power Calls on Samantha Power to Resign Over Gaza

TOPSHOT - A picture taken in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 11, 2023, shows Israeli army soldiers keeping position on a hill overlooking northern Gaza, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Voices

This Is Not a War Against Hamas

Politics

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Nominee Martin O'Malley served as Maryland's governor from 2007 to 2015 and if confirmed, would run one of the biggest social programs in the United States. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Questions Meta Over Palestinian Censorship

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a briefing on the 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

How Biden’s State Department Conceals Its “Human Rights Black Hole” in the Middle East

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT - JULY 28: Psilocybin mushrooms stand ready for harvest in a humidified "fruiting chamber" in the basement of a private home on July 28, 2023 in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Recent studies have suggested that psilocybin mushrooms, also known as "magic mushrooms" have shown promise in combating anxiety, anorexia, depression, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorder and various forms of substance abuse. Scientists say psilocybin may promote neuroplasticity, a rewiring of the brain that gives patients fresh perspectives on longstanding psychiatric problems. Although psilocybin is classified in the U.S. as a Schedule 1 substance, making it illegal by federal law, many municipalities throughout the United States, as well as the state of Colorado have moved to decriminalize it locally. Oregon has legalized the adult use of mushrooms, which currently must be administered within regulated "psilocybin service centers." (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Congress Is Pushing Revolutionary Research on Psychedelic Treatments for the Military

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 09: Former President Donald Trump arrives at the New York Young Republican Club Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on December 09, 2023 in New York City. The New York Young Republican Club held its 111th annual gala with guest speakers that include Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and former President Trump days before he is scheduled to testify as the last witness in his civil fraud trial. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump Allies Are Giddy About House Intelligence Committee’s Surveillance Bill

Daniel Boguslaw

Justice

New York Times Doxxes Source Trafficked by Chinese Gang

The Hamas Terrorist Who Wasn’t

Trevor Aaronson

Illustration of Kelly Siegler Cold Justice by Patrick Leger for The Intercept

The Prosecutor and the Snitch Ring

What Happened When a Star Prosecutor Was Accused of Running a Jailhouse Snitch Scheme

Jordan Smith, Liliana Segura

Illustration of Jeff Prible in prison by Patrick Leger for The Intercept

The Prosecutor and the Snitch Ring

How Two Men Convicted by Kelly Siegler Uncovered the Dark Secret to Her Success

Jordan Smith, Liliana Segura

National Security

The Treasury Building is viewed in Washington, May 4, 2021. The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on a Bosnian state prosecutor who is accused of being complicit in corruption and undermining democratic processes or institutions in the Western Balkans. The Treasury Department says its Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Diana Kajmakovic for sanctions. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Barring Speakers Under U.S. Sanctions Puts Ideas Off-Limits, Say Free Speech Advocates

Murtaza Hussain

Workers participate in a memorial ceremony to mark a month since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants, inside the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Israel's shekel has recouped the bulk of its losses since the war between Israel and Hamas began a month ago, with the central bank's support helping to tame volatility and discourage bets against it. Photographer: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Harvard Endowment Investor and Other Business Leaders Take a Solidarity Trip to Israel

Ken Klippenstein

Deeqo Dahir Mohamed (left), 25 years old, Luul's half-sister, and Qaali Dahir Mohamed, 18 yrs old Luul's full-sister, sit on a mattress as they pose for a photo in Mogadishu, Somalia, May. 10, 2023.

Advocates Demand Compensation for U.S. Drone Strike Victims in Somalia

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters stands in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. As the novel coronavirus has spread in the U.S., the CDC is under increasing heat to defend a shaky rollout of crucial testing kits. Photographer: Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Defense-Linked Contractor Took Over a Successful CDC Anti-Overdose Initiative. It Imploded in a Day.

World

RAFAH, GAZA - DEC 19: Civil defense teams and Palestinians in the area carried out search and rescue operations in the rubble of the buildings destroyed in the Israeli attack, on December 19, 2023. It was reported that there were dead and wounded as a result of the Israeli army's attack on Rafah city in Gaza. (Photo by Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Watch: A Conversation on the Horrors in Gaza With Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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 Document Undermines Espionage Case Against Imran Khan

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain

NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 13: Israeli soldiers, tanks, howitzers and armored vehicles are seen as Israeli military mobility continues on the Gaza border, in Nahal Oz, Israel on December 13, 2023. (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Pentagon Taps “Tiger Team” to Rush Weapons to Israel

Ken Klippenstein

People wave a Cuban flag as they march through the streets of Miami, Florida, to commemorate last year's historic protests in Cuba on July 11, 2022. Hundreds of members of Miami's Cuban community took to the streets on July 11 in the US city to commemorate the historic protests held a year ago in Cuba against the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel. In the afternoon, a crowd gathered in front of the Versailles restaurant, an emblematic place of Cuban exile in Little Havana, before marching through the neighborhood. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

State Department Stuns Congress, Saying Biden Is Not Even Reviewing Trump’s Terror Designation of Cuba

Technology

How to Authenticate Large Datasets

Facebook Approved an Israeli Ad Calling for Assassination of Pro-Palestine Activist

A masked witness leaves the military court in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, during the trial against six soldiers accused of crimes against humanity and violating orders, on September 15, 2023. Six soldiers, including two officers of the elite Republican Guard, faced a military tribunal over the killing of nearly 50 people in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in Goma. Congolese soldiers had on August 30, 2023 stopped a religious sect from holding a demonstration against United Nations peacekeepers in the city. (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET / AFP) (Photo by ALEXIS HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images)

Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo

Robert Flummerfelt, Nick Turse

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Julio Corro, right, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. The Trump administration intends to require that American citizens boarding international flights submit to face scans, something Congress has not explicitly approved and privacy advocates consider an ill-advised step toward a surveillance state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

LexisNexis Sold Powerful Spy Tools to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Environment

NPS / Jacob W. Frank

Grizzly Bear Poachers Flout the Endangered Species Act — and Get Away With It

Ryan Devereaux, Jimmy Tobias

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) (L) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rallying hundreds of young climate activists in Lafayette Square on the north side of the White House to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden work to make the Green New Deal into law on June 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Organized by the Sunrise Movement, the 'No Climate, No Deal' marchers demanded a meeting with Biden to insist on an 'infrastructure package that truly invests in job creation and acts to combat the climate crisis.' (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The Rise and Rollout of AOC’s Green New Deal

Leading News Outlets Are Doing the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Greenwashing

Amy Westervelt, Matthew Green

The Norlite hazardous waste-burning plant in Cohoes, New York, seen on October 1st, 2023. (Photo: Rebecca Redelmeier)

New Yorkers Voted to Put Environmental Rights in Their Constitution — but the Attorney General Is Fighting Back

Rebecca Redelmeier