What It’s Like on the Gaza-Bound Flotilla Attacked by Drones
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, drones attacked a fleet of small boats bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza. The...
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Trump’s Cult of Power Cancels Free Speech
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, conservatives have moved quickly to consolidate power and attack their political enemies, whose...
Cardi B and NFL star Stefon Diggs to welcome first child together
Music superstar Cardi B and four-time NFL Pro Bowler Stefon Diggs are expecting their first child together.The Grammy Award-winning rapper...
The Real Charlie Kirk
After the fatal shooting of right-wing personality Charlie Kirk on Wednesday afternoon, the rhetoric on the right quickly escalated. Influential...
Trump Escalates Assault on Chicago With “Operation Midway Blitz”
The Trump administration said on Monday that it was launching an operation targeting “criminal illegal aliens” in Chicago, dubbed Operation...
Shocking cases reveal Britain’s Orwellian free speech crackdown
With President Donald Trump’s slated departure for a state visit to the United Kingdom later this month, another high-profile arrest...
The Housing Hunger Games
Homeless sweeps have become the go-to, bipartisan performance of “doing something” about the U.S. housing crisis — a spectacle embraced...
What The Intercept Is Reading
Nonfiction “Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty Book,” Adam Kucharski (2025) My summer reading was a little unusual this year,...
Israel set to launch Gaza City offensive: High stakes, high costs ahead
On Saturday, Israeli tanks and troops began maneuvering ever closer to Gaza City’s outskirts in preparation for a full-scale offensive. Eyewitness...
Accepted at Universities, Unable to Get Visas: Inside Trump’s War on International Students
A prominent Indian journalist was notified by the Trump administration this week that his student visa to pursue a master’s...
Democrats Are Missing Political Layups And Dooming Us All
The Democratic Party has lost millions of voters since 2020, according to new analysis from the New York Times. Meanwhile,...
Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and...
Trump Is Putting Confederate Statues Back Up. Here’s Why They Must Fall Again.
The statue of Confederate Albert Pike, toppled overnight by protesters outside of Judiciary Square one street over from D.C. Police...
“A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel Is Starving Gaza
As the Israeli government weighs, once again, expanding its genocidal military campaign in Gaza, the enclave is sliding into a...
The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza
After 22 months of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza, something changed in the last week. Israeli human rights groups...
