Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan is a senior columnist 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.
Chechnya Is Trying to Exterminate Gay People. Our Silence Only Emboldens Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov.
A new film, “Welcome to Chechnya,” documents the torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings of gay men in the Russian republic.
Rep. Eliot Engel’s Positions on Foreign Policy Are Hawkish — and Shameful
Engel’s votes on Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia put him in a hard-right minority inside his party. He faces a primary against Jamaal Bowman.
Protests for Black LivesHow the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War
The real terror threat comes not from anti-fascists in black masks, but from actual fascists in Hawaiian shirts.
Bill de Blasio Needs to Resign. By Defending Police Violence, He Has Betrayed New Yorkers.
On Saturday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went on live television to defend police who rammed a car into protesters.