Father leads international effort to find a cure for son’s brain tumor
St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital estimates around 400,000 kids around the world will be diagnosed with cancer this year. In the...
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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,...
The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations
President Donald Trump has has long considered both the media and higher education as his enemies — which makes college...
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...
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...
Airdropped Aid Is Crushing Starving People in Gaza
Starving Palestinians flock to collect aid supplies dropped from airplanes in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on Aug. 19, 2025. Photo: Mohammed Nassar/Anadolu...
Swarthmore responds to lawsuit alleging it put trans athlete back on women’s track team after NCAA rule change
Swarthmore College has responded to a lawsuit filed by transgender track and field athlete Evelyn Parts that alleges the school...
Another trans athlete sues school over being banned from women’s sports in growing trend
A third transgender athlete has sued a U.S. college in the span of one month in response to the ongoing...
Former Giants star becomes latest NFL player to abruptly retire before regular-season kickoff: report
NFL running backs typically have a shorter shelf life than players at other positions due to the physical toll ball...
Historic female MLB umpire Jen Pawol’s debut performance results behind home plate are finally in
Jen Pawol made MLB history over the weekend as the first female umpire to be featured in a big league...
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...
An Unexpected Path to Hold War Criminals Accountable
Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Capitol to meet with U.S. lawmakers on July 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C.Photo: Samuel Corum/Sipa...
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...
