The Intercept Briefing
The Intercept Live in Conversation With Robert Reich
Inequality Media co-founder Robert Reich and The Intercept’s Akela Lacy break down the most pressing issues of the midterm elections.
The Intercept Briefing
Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a new weekly podcast delivering incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl.
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The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election
“Almost all of the worst ideas in the United States have been intentionally exported to Brazil as a way to make Brazil a worse country that’s more in line with U.S. interests.”
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DHS Was Designed as a Weapon
Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and the years of “counterterror” surveillance that paved the way for the Trump administration’s abuses.
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Prediction Markets Have a Lock on the Midterms
As Kalshi and Polymarket dodge state regulations, prediction markets are upping the ante on next month’s elections.
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Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent”
Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country.
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The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back Voters
After suffering major losses last election cycle, Justice Democrats resurrected itself, helping put democratic socialism on the map. So what changed?
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Apocalypse Now: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Investigate the End-Timers Alliance
What’s driving religious fundamentalists, tech accelerationists, and anti-immigrant ethnonationalists to bring about the end of the world?
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The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable
Sam Biddle and 404 Media’s Jason Koebler discuss the government’s growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude, to surveil and kill abroad and at home.
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25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat
Rozina Ali on the rise of Islamophobia in America and the vague terrorism laws now being wielded against dissidents like the Prairieland protesters.
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Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA
How the right’s attacks on trans people have infiltrated a sports league with no trans women.