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Biden's Trip Is About Exiting the Middle East — but U.S. Might Get Pulled Back In
Joe Biden lacks the will to truly disentangle the U.S. from its unsavory regional allies and the chaos they have sown together.
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Perspectives on the news from Intercept columnists, reporters, and freelance contributors.
Donald Trump Is Even More Unhinged Than We Thought
The January 6 hearings may be the best congressional inquiry since the Church Committee’s legendary investigation of the intelligence community in the 1970s.
Rashida Tlaib Is Trying to Fix the Espionage Act, but Whistleblowers Are Probably Out of Luck
The antiquated measure is an abuse of the legal system, but the Justice Department has no incentive to stop using it.
Anti-Abortion Zealots Were Precursor to Donald Trump's Right-Wing Shock Troops
The two camps merged during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Democrats' Cowardice and Complicity in the Post-Roe World
The liberal establishment refuses to take any sort of risk in the service of women’s and other pregnant people’s lives.
The Supreme Court's Shock-and-Awe Judicial Coup
The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over.
Cassidy Hutchinson's Jan. 6 Testimony Was an Alexander Butterfield Moment
Butterfield’s revelations about the Nixon tapes changed the trajectory of the Watergate scandal and helped lead to the president’s resignation.
FBI Raid on Trump Justice Department Official Signals a Criminal Investigation May Be Starting
Attorney General Merrick Garland has been criticized for not going after the powerful people responsible for inciting the January 6 insurrection.
U.S. Vows to Hunt Russian War Criminals — but Gives a Pass to Its Own
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced investigations of war crimes committed in Ukraine. But America has a surplus of its own unpunished atrocities.
More People Will Die
The Supreme Court is taking away a fundamental bodily right — and condemning pregnant people to financial suffering and possible death.