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,...
Research
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...
Pentagon Document: U.S. Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda
The United States hopes to use machine learning to create and distribute propaganda overseas in a bid to “influence foreign...
Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day
The military forces deploying in Washington, D.C. — whose mission includes not only “community safety patrols” but assisting in “traffic...
German researchers discover dozens of shipwrecks including possible WWII steamer lost in air raid
German researchers recently announced the discovery of 31 shipwrecks, including a possible steamship that was destroyed in a World War...
DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel
When it comes to Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza, Democrats are nearly united. Only 8 percent of party...
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...
ICE Removes Spanish-Language Training Requirement for New Recruits
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently removed a long-standing five-week Spanish-language training program requirement for new recruits. The removal of...
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 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...
How Columbia’s Leadership Refashioned the University in Trump’s Image
Shortly after Columbia University made broad concessions to the Trump administration, the school’s acting president Claire Shipman struck a triumphant...
ISIS soldiers behead Christians in Mozambique, burning church and homes: ‘Silent genocide’
International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa...
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...
Pentagon: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans
The Intercept has been chronicling the U.S. military’s futile counterterrorism efforts on the African continent for the last decade. We...
Hostage families blast UK and France for moves to recognize Palestinian state
Families of hostages held in Gaza, along with a freed captive, are blasting Britain, France and other nations for deciding...
