How the Charter School Wars Turned an Obscure Race Into California’s Second Most Expensive Election
The charter school movement has spent close to $30 million in support of Marshall Tuck, the former president of an LA-based charter school network.
Politics
Kansas and Oklahoma May Deliver Surprise Victories for Democrats on Election Day
Democrats could take power from GOP governors who have consistently disappointed voters in Kansas and Oklahoma, among other heartland states.
Deconstructed Podcast
The Midterms Are Days Away. What Will Drive Trump Voters: Race or Class?
Political scientist John Sides debates The Intercept’s senior politics editor Briahna Joy Gray on whether Trump voters were motivated by race or class.
GOP Rep. Tom Reed Founded Medical Debt Collection Firm That Harasses His Own Constituents
GOP Rep. Tom Reed wants to unravel the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency that polices debt collection firms like the one he founded.
What the Progressive Surge in Rural America Means for the Election — and Beyond
A wave of progressive populists is running values-driven campaigns, competing seriously in districts that national Democrats have long written off.
Progressive Groups Make Last-Minute Push for Kara Eastman, as Corporate Democrats Prep Victory Lap
The corporate group Third Way is borderline giddy that a progressive Democrat may lose her House race.
Donald Trump Exploited Long-Term Economic Distress to Fuel His Election Victory, Study Finds
A working paper from the Institute for New Economic Thinking sheds new light on the ways that economic distress motivated Trump voters in the 2016 election.
The Dialysis Industry Is Spending $111 Million to Argue That Regulating It Would Put It Out of Business
California Proposition 8 would cap what outpatient clinics can charge dialysis clinics. The industry is spending aggressively to prevent that.
Voices
After Last Week, There’s No Hope That the Media Will Ever Abandon False Equivalencies With the Far Right
“You guys do it, too,” NBC’s Chuck Todd told a Democratic representative, referring to anti-Semitic incitement — personifying a media false equivalence.
Intercepted Podcast
Donald Trump, Fascism, and the Doctrine of American Mythology
This week's guests are historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley, writer Adam Johnson, and punk musician Julian Cashwan Pratt.