A look back at the must-listen episodes of the Intercepted and Deconstructed podcasts from 2019.
The American Machine: Police Torture to Drone Assassinations
By Intercepted
Whitewashing History: America’s Racist Legacy From Slavery to the War on Immigrants
By Intercepted
Wasteland of Corruption
By Intercepted
American Horrors: Regime Change in Iraq to the Rise of ISIS
By Intercepted
The Case for Economic Disobedience
By Intercepted
Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
By Deconstructed
Exclusive: Ilhan Omar Speaks Out on Her Twitter Scandal, Anti-Semitism, and a Progressive Foreign Policy
By Deconstructed
Erik Prince, Perjury, and the Secret Trump Tower Meeting
By Deconstructed
Deconstructed: The Bernie Sanders Interview
By Deconstructed
The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism
By Deconstructed
IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT.
What we’re seeing right now from Donald Trump is a full-on authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.
This is not hyperbole.
Court orders are being ignored. MAGA loyalists have been put in charge of the military and federal law enforcement agencies. The Department of Government Efficiency has stripped Congress of its power of the purse. News outlets that challenge Trump have been banished or put under investigation.
Yet far too many are still covering Trump’s assault on democracy like politics as usual, with flattering headlines describing Trump as “unconventional,” “testing the boundaries,” and “aggressively flexing power.”
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IT’S BEEN A DEVASTATING year for journalism — the worst in modern U.S. history.
We have a president with utter contempt for truth aggressively using the government’s full powers to dismantle the free press. Corporate news outlets have cowered, becoming accessories in Trump’s project to create a post-truth America. Right-wing billionaires have pounced, buying up media organizations and rebuilding the information environment to their liking.
In this most perilous moment for democracy, The Intercept is fighting back. But to do so effectively, we need to grow.
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I’M BEN MUESSIG, The Intercept’s editor-in-chief. It’s been a devastating year for journalism — the worst in modern U.S. history.
We have a president with utter contempt for truth aggressively using the government’s full powers to dismantle the free press. Corporate news outlets have cowered, becoming accessories in Trump’s project to create a post-truth America. Right-wing billionaires have pounced, buying up media organizations and rebuilding the information environment to their liking.
In this most perilous moment for democracy, The Intercept is fighting back. But to do so effectively, we need to grow.
That’s where you come in. Will you help us expand our reporting capacity in time to hit the ground running in 2026?
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