Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan is a former Senior Columnist at The Intercept. He was the host of The Intercept podcast “Deconstructed.” Hasan was 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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Activists display placards in front of the Chancellery in Berlin on April 30, 2017, during a demonstration calling on Russian President to put an end to the persecution of gay men in Chechnya. The protestors called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will meet Putin in Sochi on May 2, 2017, to raise the issue with him. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Chechnya Is Trying to Exterminate Gay People. Our Silence Only Emboldens Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov.

Mehdi Hasan

- Jun. 28, 2020

A new film, "Welcome to Chechnya," documents the torture, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings of gay men in the Russian republic.

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 28: Chairman House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., left, and ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, conduct the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled Evaluating the Trump Administrations Policies on Iran, Iraq and the Use of Force, in Rayburn Building on Friday, February 28, 2020. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, testified. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Rep. Eliot Engel's Positions on Foreign Policy Are Hawkish — and Shameful

Mehdi Hasan

- Jun. 19, 2020

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.

Open Carry Texas protesters, some sporting jolly roger patches and Hawaiian shirts, prepare to pose for a group photo outside of the bar Big Daddy Zane's, Saturday, June 6, 2020 in Odessa, Texas. Following the arrest of the bar owner and six armed protesters defending the bar's opening in early May, Open Carry Texas had called for a rally to be held outside the bar as a way to respond to the event. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)

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How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War

Mehdi Hasan

- Jun. 10, 2020

The real terror threat comes not from anti-fascists in black masks, but from actual fascists in Hawaiian shirts.

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Bill de Blasio Needs to Resign. By Defending Police Violence, He Has Betrayed New Yorkers.

Mehdi Hasan

- May. 31, 2020

On Saturday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio went on live television to defend police who rammed a car into protesters.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 5: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Lily Sage Weinrieb gets ready to transport a casket after a viewing on May 5, 2020 in New York City. After studying at the American Academy McAllister Institute, Lily Sage Weinrieb, 25, from Philadelphia, PA started her residency as a funeral director at International Hamilton Heights Funeral Home in Harlem. Before the pandemic, the home averaged 30-40 clients per month. Now, that number has quadrupled. Between transferring remains from hospitals, viewings, paperwork, embalmments, crematorium and cemetery runs, Lily works from 8am to midnight. She often sleeps on a couch in the funeral chapel. She is completely overwhelmed scheduling funerals for a month in advance and not able to do many aspects of her job like being able to console grieving relatives with a hug nor a touch and limiting numbers at viewing and burials. Despite these impediments, Lily attempts to find solutions such as video viewings and other ceremonies. (Photo by Misha Friedman/Getty Images)

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It’s Official: 100,000 Are Dead of Covid-19 in America, and Their Blood Is on Trump’s Hands

Mehdi Hasan

- May. 27, 2020

Most of the coronavirus deaths could have been avoided if Trump had enacted social-distancing measures sooner.

DES MOINES, IOWA - JANUARY 14: Former Vice President Joe Biden (L) greets Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) before the Democratic presidential primary debate at Drake University on January 14, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates out of the field qualified for the first Democratic presidential primary debate of 2020, hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Biden Taps AOC and Jayapal to Help Shape Party Policy. Isn't This a Win for Progressives?

Mehdi Hasan

- May. 14, 2020

Kudos to Bernie Sanders for suggesting progressive and outside-the-Beltway names — and kudos to Biden and his team for accepting them.

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The "Coup" Attempt in Venezuela Seems Ridiculous. But Don't Forget — Regime Change Is the U.S. Goal.

Mehdi Hasan

- May. 9, 2020

Venezuela has faced enduring hostility from Washington due to its huge oil reserves and its opposition to U.S. policy and capitalism.

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Sen. Josh Hawley Is Cast as a GOP Leader After Trump. But Like Trump, He’s a Faux-Populist.

Mehdi Hasan

- Apr. 29, 2020

The face of Trumpism after Trump, Hawley is a fraud — a right-winger pretending to be a populist.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., second from left, speaks as fellow candidates businessman Tom Steyer, left, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, listen, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Dear Joe Biden, Here’s Why You Should Pick Elizabeth Warren as Your Running Mate

Mehdi Hasan

- Apr. 20, 2020

It could be one of the most consequential VP picks in modern American history.

DELHI, INDIA - 2020/03/31: suspected patients of the COVID-19 coronavirus wearing a face mask as a preventive measure, during the cordon and quarantine process.Police has cordoned off the Nizamuddin area that hosted an Islamic congregation and quarantined suspected patients of the COVID-19 coronavirus after several people that attended tested positive for the virus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Photo by Amarjeet Kumar Singh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The Coronavirus Is Empowering Islamophobes — but Exposing the Idiocy of Islamophobia

Mehdi Hasan

- Apr. 14, 2020

The far right is trying to weaponize Covid-19 against Muslims, blaming them for spreading the virus. Of course this is ridiculous.

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Chechnya Is Trying to Exterminate Gay People. Our Silence Only Emboldens Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov.

Rep. Eliot Engel's Positions on Foreign Policy Are Hawkish — and Shameful

How the Far-Right Boogaloo Movement Is Trying to Hijack Anti-Racist Protests for a Race War

Bill de Blasio Needs to Resign. By Defending Police Violence, He Has Betrayed New Yorkers.

It’s Official: 100,000 Are Dead of Covid-19 in America, and Their Blood Is on Trump’s Hands

Biden Taps AOC and Jayapal to Help Shape Party Policy. Isn't This a Win for Progressives?

The "Coup" Attempt in Venezuela Seems Ridiculous. But Don't Forget — Regime Change Is the U.S. Goal.

Sen. Josh Hawley Is Cast as a GOP Leader After Trump. But Like Trump, He’s a Faux-Populist.

Dear Joe Biden, Here’s Why You Should Pick Elizabeth Warren as Your Running Mate

The Coronavirus Is Empowering Islamophobes — but Exposing the Idiocy of Islamophobia