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...
The Intercept Briefing
“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...
Starvation as a Weapon: Chris Hedges on Gaza
More than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food have been killed by Israeli forces in just the last few months, according to...
Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach
During Donald Trump’s first term, the Supreme Court made some effort to check his power. But that era is over....
The Great American Heist You’re Paying For
On the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that constitutes one of the largest transfers...
Unchecked: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the President’s Power Grab
Donald Trump’s presidency continues to challenge all conventional understanding of executive authority. His administration’s extensive use of executive orders has...
How to Really Resist
Safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP are in peril after the House Republicans passed a budget resolution this week...
One Month Under Trump: Are You Keeping Up?
Swift and sweeping changes have marked the first month of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Having promised to...
Constitutional Crisis Looms
Less than a month into Donald Trump’s second term, his administration’s aggressive restructuring of the government and flirtation with defying...
Building the Deportation Machine for Trump 2.0
What can we expect when President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term on Monday? This week on The Intercept Briefing,...
Syria: What Comes Next?
The unexpected toppling this weekend of the Assad regime by rebel forces brought a swift end to Syria’s 13-year uprising-cum-civil...
The “Palestine Exception”
Continued campus protests against the Gaza war have sparked heated debates around free speech, academic freedom, and the role of...
Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives
As the clock winds down on the Biden presidency, Democrats have a limited window to act. Come January 20, Republicans...
Radical Action Under Trump
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Democrats and those on the left are grappling with what comes next....
Kamala’s Fruitless Pursuit of the Mythical Moderate
There will be much analysis and innumerable postmortems of what Kamala Harris and her campaign got wrong about the electorate...
