Progressives Use Pentagon Budget to Protest Outrageous Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
The U.S. is about to give millions in security aid to Uganda, despite a new law that punishes gay sex with life in prison.
World
Fishing for Secrets in the Nord Stream Abyss
A Swedish engineer set out to prove that Seymour Hersh’s narrative about the Nord Stream bombing was correct. What he found was very different.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
Released Guantánamo Detainees Are Still Being Denied Human Rights, U.N. Report Warns
U.S.-brokered transfers to Kazakhstan led to arbitrary detention, former Guantánamo prisoners told The Intercept.
Information Warfare Was Key to Prigozhin's Mutiny Against Putin
The Wagner boss oversees an online army that has pushed disinformation around the globe, including alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Voices
Prigozhin and Putin: Dead Men Walking
In the duel between the Wagner Group’s Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both men lost their nerve.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Threatened Uprising Against Putin Echoes Russia’s History of Wars Gone Bad
Putin may yet suffer the fate of many czars before him: a military uprising fueled by the blowback of a failing war.
Voices
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Coup Targets Putin and His “Oligarchic Clan”
The mercenary leader’s bid for control may be the greatest threat to Moscow since the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev.
As D.C. Fêtes Narendra Modi, His Political Prisoners in India Are Forgotten
The Biden administration has ignored India’s rights violations in favor of weapons sales and geopolitical expediency.
Ukraine Blocks Journalists From Front Lines With Escalating Censorship
“It’s wild how little of what’s happening is being chronicled.”
How Exxon Captured a Country Without Firing a Shot
Guyana is poised to become Exxon’s top global oil producer. Where the company ends and the government begins is increasingly unclear.