Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan is a columnist and senior contributor at The Intercept. He is the host of The Intercept podcast “Deconstructed.” Hasan is also the host of Al Jazeera English’s “UpFront.” He has interviewed, among others, Edward Snowden, Hamid Karzai, Ehud Olmert, and Gen. Michael Flynn. He is also the author of two books — a biography of former U.K. Labor Party leader Ed Miliband and an e-book on the financial crisis and austerity economics. He is based in Washington, D.C.

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When Asked How They’ll Pay for Their Plans, Democrats Should Answer Just as Trump Does: Mexico

Mehdi Hasan — 12:00 p.m.

At Wednesday’s debate, Democrats should refuse to play the GOP’s “How will you pay for it?” game.

Why Did Chuck Schumer Call an Islamophobe His “Principled” Friend?

Mehdi Hasan — Nov. 12

Rep. Peter King is not a “moderate” Republican.

Bernie Sanders Says Denying Aid Because of Hamas Is “Part of an Effort to Dehumanize Palestinians”

Mehdi Hasan — Nov. 1

No other candidate in the U.S. presidential race comes close to Sanders in terms of his willingness to condition aid to Israel.

Everyone Is Denouncing the Syrian Rebels Now Slaughtering Kurds. But Didn’t the U.S. Once Support Some of Them?

Mehdi Hasan — Oct. 26

It’s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.

Let’s Be Serious — Trump Doesn’t Mind These Incitements to Kill Journalists

Mehdi Hasan — Oct. 15

The latest outrage is a video that depicts Trump killing journalists in a church. He hasn’t bothered to condemn it personally.

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