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President Donald Trump, left, reacts as Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a roundtable on American mining, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, at the State Department in Washington.

Chilling Dissent

Rubio Is Trying to Keep Leftists Out of U.S. by Banning Supporters of “Economic Sabotage”

A new State Department policy about “far-left terrorism” could spark a crackdown on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions activists.

The War on Immigrants

Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters

A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response.

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 14: Vice President-elect Mike Pence and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, listen to Republican presidential-elect Donald Trump during a meeting with technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, NY on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”

Founded by Trump ally and right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, Palantir has attacked the press and works in the digital surveillance space.

Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.

The Intercept Briefing

The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner

An Aug. 1, 2026 post on X by Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell depicts a service member and the words "SEND ME," a biblical quote.

Targeting Iran

The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media

Austin Campbell

Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed arrives to a press conference in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue on August 05, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. Sayed called on Michiganders to unite against Mike Rodgers as well as challenging him to multiple debates. (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Voices

There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner

The Intercept Briefing

Abdul El-Sayed on The Intercept Briefing

Voices

Editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss (L) attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference at the Sun Valley Lodge on July 8, 2026 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Every year, some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful figures from the media, finance, technology, and political spheres converge at the Sun Valley Resort for the exclusive week-long conference hosted by boutique investment bank Allen & Co.

Voices

Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists

CEUTA, SPAIN - JULY 31: A member of the armed services watches over migrants crossing the border between Spain and Morocco on July 31, 2026 in Ceuta, Spain. Spain's interior ministry has said it's deploying 60 members of the armed forces and an additional 30 Guardia Civil officers to Ceuta after tens of thousands of migrants entered the Spanish enclave in North Africa on Thursday. A large number of people swam through the Tarajal breakwater to enter the Spanish territory from neighboring Morocco, while others scaled the border fence. Some estimates have said that around 49,000 migrants made the crossing, with the surge of arrivals overwhelming migrant reception centres, with many sleeping on the streets overnight. (Photo by Adri Salido/Getty Images)

Voices

Liberals Are Ceding Ground to the Far Right on Ceuta Border Crossings

Natasha Lennard

Iran

President Donald Trump boards Marine One on the Ellipse, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in Washington.

When a President Promises a Massacre

Donald Trump, far right, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, second from right, attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members recently killed in the Middle East, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del.

The Pentagon Found a New Way to Undercount U.S. Casualties in Iran

Scale models of Iran-made ballistic missiles and the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Shahed-136 are displayed during a pro-government rally marking the Muslim holy month of Muharram in downtown Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2026.

Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses

U.S. Official: Iran Attacks Injured “Far More” Troops Than Pentagon Admits

Midterms

Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, speaks during a primary election night event Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit.

Abdul El-Sayed Beats the Democratic Establishment and AIPAC in Michigan

Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo., visits with supporters at a polling station visit on primary election day Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026, in St. Louis.

Wesley Bell Again Defeats Cori Bush — With Plenty of Help From AIPAC

Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., canvasses a neighborhood on Saturday, July 18, 2026, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)

Cori Bush Has No Regrets

Abdul El-Sayed on The Intercept Briefing

Justice

FILE - This Nov. 18, 2011 file photo shows a portion of the exterior of the Oregon State Penitentiary, in Salem, Ore. Three former inmates have filed a class action lawsuit alleging Oregon's Department of Corrections fed them chicken and fish marked "not for human consumption." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement

Jessica Washington

NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance to Find Gaza Paint Splatter Protester, Docs Show

(L/R) US Vice President JD Vance speaks alongside Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz and CMS Deputy Administrator Kim Brandt during a press conference on anti-fraud initiatives at the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House campus in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Jessica Washington

Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 29, 2026. Dr. Fauci, the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is testifying after Senator Rand Paul, Republican from Kentucky, released more than 1000 pages of Fauci's diary entries from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is

Mychal Denzel Smith

War on Gaza

On a West Bank Eviction Tour, Israeli Settlers Advertise “No Arabs Here”

Armed Israeli Settlers Detained Ro Khanna. He Wants Their Illegal Outposts Demolished.

This undated photo from Winter 2023 provided by Breaking The Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinian prisoners captured in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces at a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)

How to Show That Israel’s Sexual Violence Against Palestinians Is Systemic — and Has Gone on for Decades

Natasha Lennard

The Performative Ceasefire in Gaza

Unmasking ICE

NYC, NY, UNITED STATES - 2025/12/19: Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building. According to White House Border Czar Tom Homan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will increase its operations in New York City due to its status as a sanctuary city. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest

Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, during a hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will look to defend her immigration enforcement and make the case to end the DHS shutdown in front of a combative audience before hearings in both chambers. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

ICE Should Show It Hasn’t Been “Infiltrated by Violent Extremists,” Senator Urges

Matt Sledge, Sam Biddle

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

Matt Sledge, Sam Biddle

Protesters walk past a screen reading "arrest and charge Jonathan Ross", the ICE officer, named in US media as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who fatally shot Renee Good, as they march from Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis against ICE and the fatal shooting of Good, calling on federal authorities to leave the city and demand accountability, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 10, 2026. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on the streets of Minneapolis on January 7, leading to huge protests and outrage from local leaders who rejected White House claims she was a domestic terrorist. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell

Chilling Dissent

Bob Vylan performing on the West Holts stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset on Saturday June 28, 2025.

Free Speech Crackdown: Germany Deports Bob Vylan Frontman for Anti-Israel Chants

Hanno Hauenstein

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) speaks with a reporter on Capitol Hill on July 21, 2026.

House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism

Protesters gather outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, United States, in support of labor and hunger strikers inside on June 12, 2026. Demonstrators continue their efforts to support detainees despite actions by state, federal, and Geo Group staff. Women detainees have joined the strikes this week, while authorities have been working to expedite transfers out of the facility. ICE agents have used chemical irritants on protesters and press. (Photo by Neil Constantine/NurPhoto via AP)

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - APRIL 22: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory, Francesca Albanese delivers a speech during the Global Sumud Parliamentary Congress in Brussels, Belgium on April 22, 2026. Bringing together lawmakers, representatives of political parties and public institutions, UN rapporteurs and prominent figures from around the world, the congress has begun as the Global Sumud Flotilla that set off for Gaza on April 12 continues its journey. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s Sanctions Against the ICC Are Unconstitutional, Rights Groups Say