Favorite On Tuesday, Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., will face off in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The race is the next biggest test of whether progressives can win statewide, particularly in purple territory. The Michigan race is one of the most expensive primaries of the cycle. Outside groups have spent upward of…
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Donald Trump and Wars of Choice
Favorite President Donald Trump reclaimed the White House last year promising to keep the United States out of conflicts and claiming to be a peacemaker. “Under Trump, we will have no more wars,” he said on the campaign trail in 2024. And Trump has been especially critical of going to war in Iraq. “We should have never been in Iraq,” said…
Trump’s National Killer Police Force
Favorite Within the span of a week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Maine and Texas, and another was hit by a truck and killed in Florida after trying to avoid ICE agents. A fourth person recently died in ICE custody after reportedly being denied medication. Their deaths prompted yet another round…
Company That Bragged It Could Track U.S. Spies Hired to Investigate “Havana Syndrome”
Favorite The U.S. military inquiry into the so-called Havana syndrome, the mysterious illness claimed by a litany of American intelligence officers, is tapping a controversial contractor: a private surveillance firm that once boasted of its ability to stalk American intelligence officers. Documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that…
A Government of Trump, by Trump, and for Trump
Favorite Twenty-three years ago, I sat down in Metro Diner on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to pick the brain of an illustrious book editor about an ambitious project. It launched me on a life-changing odyssey. Not so long after that meeting, I sent Tom Engelhardt a draft of an article for his new website, a…
Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as Terrorists
Favorite A noise demonstration that took place outside of the Prairieland Detention Facility in Texas one year ago has resulted in decades of prison time for the anti-ICE activists involved. Federal judges sentenced eight defendants, who the government cast as antifa operatives, to between 30 and 100 years in prison for terrorism-related charges last week;…
The Democratic Party Gets Its Populist Takeover
Favorite All three congressional candidates that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamadani endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday. The races were widely viewed as a test of just how much influence the left would have in charting the next chapter for the Democratic Party — and a referendum on Mamdani’s power. “Mamdani is the one…
The Intercept Sues to Uncover Secretive Government Anti-Protester Database
Favorite The Intercept is challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s refusal to release public documents relating to an unlawful database intended to stifle protest and punish people who exercise their First Amendment rights. In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today, The Intercept is asking the…
Chud the Builder Fantasized About “Race War.” Now He’s Charged With Attempted Murder.
Favorite Dalton Eatherly, who goes by the moniker Chud the Builder, attends a hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse on May 21, 2026, in Clarksville, Tenn. Photo: Adin Parks/AP Photo The situation has only gotten worse for Dalton Eatherly, the race-baiting online pest better known as “Chud the Builder.” Earlier this spring, Eatherly was out on…
Are Jeffries and Schumer Getting Ready to Greenlight Domestic Spy Power for Trump?
Favorite When Congressional Democrats rallied against President Donald Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte to serve as temporary director of national intelligence last week, they said he was an unqualified pick who would be too eager to use the job to undermine elections. Now some high-ranking Democrats are lining up to support another permanent appointee with…