Trump’s War on Drugs
From Afghanistan to Iraq, the United States has long used drone strikes to take out people it alleges are terrorists...
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MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure
Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel...
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...
Israel’s Gaza offensive sparks fierce clash over ultra-Orthodox military draft
As Israel mobilizes an additional 60,000 reservists for its Gaza City offensive, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a showdown over...
ESPN star Desmond Howard criticizes ‘unwarranted’ Heisman hype surrounding Texas’ Arch Manning
After experiencing limited playing time while backing up Quinn Ewers his first two seasons at Texas, Arch Manning opened his...
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...
Ex-Jets star Mo Lewis defends infamous tackle, blames Drew Bledsoe for sparking Tom Brady’s historic NFL rise
In 2001, Mo Lewis delivered a tackle that altered NFL history.Lewis, who spent his entire pro career with the New...
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,...
ICE Targets App Delivery Drivers — and the Tech Giants They Work for Stay Silent
Angry residents of a Washington high-rise apartment building gathered as federal agents, backed by Metropolitan Police Department officers, swooped in...
The Smiths’ Mike Joyce to Publish Autobiography, The Drums
The drummer follows his former bandmates Morrissey and Johnny Marr into memoir
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...
Body of Antarctic explorer found after 66 years after his disappearance
The British Antarctic Survey announced that the remains of 25-year-old meteorologist Dennis "Tink" Bell were found 66 years after his...
Trump’s Trial Run for a Police State
Donald Trump arrives for a press conference announcing the "federalization" of Washington, D.C., police and the deployment of the National...
“My Client Was Tortured Today” — The Painful Execution of Byron Black
One by one, the media witnesses approached the microphone to describe what they saw at the execution of Byron Black....
