The Intercept Briefing
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse discuss the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
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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Government Shutdown and Free Speech Showdown
Amid the Republican-Democrat blame game, a federal judge’s extraordinary ruling takes on the Trump administration’s unlawful detentions of pro-Palestine protesters.
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What It’s Like on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attacked by Drones
Flotilla volunteer Tommy Marcus and human rights lawyer Diana Buttu speak on Israel’s aid blockade and continued bombardment on Gaza.
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Trump’s Cult of Power Cancels Free Speech
Adam Johnson of “Citations Needed” on the White House’s weaponization of Kirk’s death and the broader rightward tilt of the media.
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The Real Charlie Kirk
Akela Lacy, Natasha Lennard, and Ali Breland on the weaponization of Kirk’s murder and increasing political violence.
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Unhinged: A Return to Washington
Akela Lacy, Jessica Washington, and Matt Sledge break down the battle over the Epstein files, looming government shutdown, and National Guard occupation.
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The Housing Hunger Games
“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.
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Democrats Are Missing Political Layups And Dooming Us All
Veteran strategist Nina Smith warns the Democratic Party is failing at the basics.
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Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence
Journalist Kylie Cheung on why post-Dobbs restrictions “aren’t unintended consequences.”
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“A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel Is Starving Gaza
The International Rescue Committee’s Bob Kitchen unpacks how Israel’s war and aid restrictions, not food shortage, are driving Gaza’s hunger crisis.