The Whistleblower Trying to Stop the Next Financial Crisis
One insider says that big banks have been quietly engaging in the same behavior that precipitated the crisis of 2008.
153 posts found for ‘prison industrial complex’
How a Payday Lender Partnered With a Native Tribe to Bypass Lending Laws and Get Rich Quick
American Web Loan was set up as a tribal lender, but a class-action lawsuit reveals who controlled the company — and made massive profits — behind the scenes.
An ICE Informant, MS-13, and the Long Campaign to Deport Walter Cruz-Zavala
A government snitch inked him with gang tattoos as a teen. Judges have agreed his deportation would likely lead to torture.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition
Guest host Chenjerai Kumanyika speaks with abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore in a special two-part episode.
The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he's not receiving one in Britain either.
On the Ground in Iowa
The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim reports from the Iowa caucuses.
Louisiana Environmental Activists Charged With “Terrorizing” for Nonviolent Stunt Targeting Plastics Giant
The two environmental activists face 15 years of prison in the latest instance of the criminalization of dissent.
Let’s Defund the Military Too
Bernie Sanders’s senior foreign policy adviser makes the case for slashing the Pentagon’s budget.
Universal Enemy: Scholar Darryl Li on the Relationship Between Transnational Jihadists and U.S. Empire
In this bonus episode, Li discusses his recent book, “The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity.”
Coronavirus Monitoring Bracelets Flood the Market, Ready to Snitch on People Who Don’t Distance
A crop of “new” body-worn devices issue alerts about hospital patients, the quarantined, people under house arrest, and workers who fail to social distance.