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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.
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 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.
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Decades of Denial: Policing’s Past Haunts the Present
Rick Loessberg and Akela Lacy trace the trajectory of America’s unfinished reckoning with policing, from the 1967 Kerner Report to the George Floyd protests to Trump 2.0.
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Starvation as a Weapon: Chris Hedges on Gaza
While the U.S. backs Israel, Gaza’s civilian population faces mass starvation and death. Journalist and author Chris Hedges traces the roots of this unfolding atrocity.
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Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach
From birthright citizenship to reproductive rights, SCOTUS is dismantling the legal limits on executive power.
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The Great American Heist You’re Paying For
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., on how Trump’s megabill is the biggest wealth transfer in history and how money in politics is fueling America's slide into plutocratic authoritarianism.
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Who’s the Real Bully of the Middle East?
Iranian American author Hooman Majd on the Israel–Iran ceasefire, Trump’s role in escalating the conflict, and whether diplomacy can survive.