The Intercept Briefing
Building the Deportation Machine for Trump 2.0
Ahead of Trump’s second term, Democratic and Republican lawmakers are advancing sweeping measures to make life harder for immigrants.
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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TikTok SCOTUS Battle
As the TikTok ban goes up before the Supreme Court on Friday, TikTok creator Pearlmania500, Shawn Musgrave, and Jessica Washington discuss what’s at stake.
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Media’s Biggest Failures
As he prepares to retire from journalism, James Risen warns of press missteps in the Trump era.
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Power of the Pardon
Biden is running out of time to stop another Trump execution spree.
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Syria: What Comes Next?
On The Intercept Briefing, Syrian journalist Rami Jarrah discusses the fall of the Assad family’s decadeslong brutal regime.
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Silencing Dissent: Attacks on Free Speech and Nonprofits Are Already Ramping Up
The Trump administration may soon have a new weapon to target perceived enemies.
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The “Palestine Exception”
On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech.
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Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.
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Radical Action Under Trump
In the face of a second Trump term, the left must cultivate a politics of everyday life that goes beyond voting, says columnist Natasha Lennard.
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Kamala’s Fruitless Pursuit of the Mythical Moderate
How the Democrats lost to Trump — again.