President Donald Trump appears increasingly desperate to deflect questions about the flagrant abuse of power he seems to have committed this summer by withholding aid to Ukraine as he pressed that country’s new president to open an investigatio

The Environmental Left Is Softening on Carbon-Capture Technology. Maybe That’s OK.

Sep 23rd, 2019 22m 11s

At the start of this year, more than 600 environmental groups — including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Sunrise Movement — sent a letter to Congress saying they will “vigorously oppose” federal climate legislation that promotes “corpora

EPA Allowed Companies to Make 40 New PFAS Chemicals Despite Serious Risks

Sep 20th, 2019 24m 5s

The chemical caused lab rats to lose weight. When pregnant rats were exposed to it, their pups lost weight, too, and their pups’ skulls, ribs, and pelvises tended to develop abnormally. The compound, referred to by the number “647-42-7” in Envi

Mourning and Resistance in Kashmir After India Revoked the State’s Special Status

Sep 19th, 2019 10m 22s

Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir — On the eve of Eid al-Adha last month, 17-year-old Asrar Khan lay in a vegetative state at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, a hospital in downtown Srinagar, Kashmir’s largest city. The unconscious teena

Industrialized Militaries Are a Bigger Part of the Climate Emergency Than You Know

Sep 18th, 2019 12m 53s

Over a century before we reached the brink of ecological catastrophe, Rabindranath Tagore had a glimpse of where we might be headed. Tagore, an Indian author and cultural reformer who lived during the period of British colonialism, was among th

How the FBI Increased Its Power After 9/11 and Helped Put Trump in Office

Sep 17th, 2019 16m 22s

Mike German, a former FBI special agent, had four years on the job when he took an assignment that would change his life forever. It was 1992. A jury in Simi Valley, California, had just acquitted a group of mostly white Los Angeles police offi

An Asylum Officer Speaks Out Against the Trump Administration’s “Supervillain” Attacks on Immigrants

Sep 16th, 2019 10m 3s

Asylum officersat U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS,were reeling after John Lafferty, director of the asylum division, wasreplacedon Monday by Andrew Davidson, former deputy associate director for USCIS’s fraud detection and n

With Trump in Office, Newspapers Increasingly Quoted Anti-Immigrant Groups Without Explaining Who They Were

Sep 13th, 2019 14m 37s

The Center for Immigration Studies, a far-right, anti-immigrant group, was frequently cited by major U.S. newspapers in the first two years of Donald Trump’s presidency — without mention of the group’s deep ties to the Trump administration, acc

Harrowing Cables Detail How the CIA Tortured Accused 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jeopardizing the Case Against Him

Sep 12th, 2019 12m 33s

In March 2003, in a secret CIA prison cell in Poland, a small frog jumped out of a drain and an interrogator caught it. “No, no,” said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused architect of the 9/11 attacks. “Let it stay.” He asked that the frog be r

Exxon Mobil Is Funding Centrist Democratic Think Tank, Disclosures Reveal

Sep 11th, 2019 10m 17s

The Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist Democratic think tank that grew out of the party’s pro-business wing in the 1980s and ’90s, received $50,000 from Exxon Mobil in 2018 via its parent organization, the Third Way Foundation, according

Isiah James Wants to Take Brooklyn’s Fight for Affordable Housing to Congress

Sep 10th, 2019 16m 58s

It’s a hot, humid summer evening in Brooklyn, the kind that would keep most people inside with the air conditioner blasting. But not Isiah James. The towering 32-year-old veteran who’s running for Congress in New York’s 9thDistrict, in the hear

Joe Biden Is Proud of His Record on Iraq, But His Plan to Segregate It Would Have Unleashed Chaos

Sep 9th, 2019 21m 39s

Asked this week to respond to criticism of his judgement on Iraq, like his senate vote to authorize the use of force in 2002, and his much-derided later proposal to divide the country in three along sectarian lines, Joe Biden laughed and assure

After Climate Forum, Biden Heads to a Fundraiser Co-Hosted by a Fossil Fuel Executive

Sep 6th, 2019 6m 39s

The day afterJoe Biden participates in CNN’s climate forum in New York, the former vice president will head to a high-dollar fundraiser co-hosted by a fossil fuel executive tied to a major natural gas development project. David Solomon ofHildre

Conservative Revolt Against Boris Johnson Exposes Republicans’ Complicity in the Cult of Trump

Sep 5th, 2019 7m 36s

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speak before a working breakfast at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, on Aug. 25, 2019. Photo: Erin Schaff/AFP/Getty Images “Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, brother

Here’s How Much the Democratic Party Charges to Be on Each House Committee

Sep 4th, 2019 9m 37s

House Democrats are woefully behind on dues owed to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, according to an internal party document provided to The Intercept. The rank-and-file’s lagging participation in the party’s money chase is bein

The Best Movie Ever Made About the Truth Behind the Iraq War Is “Official Secrets”

Sep 3rd, 2019 12m 49s

“Official Secrets,” which opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles, is the best movie ever made about how the Iraq War happened. It’s startlingly accurate, and because of that, it’s equally inspiring, demoralizing, hopeful, and enraging. Pleas

Larry Fink, Joe Biden’s Wall Street Ally, is Deeply Invested in Amazon Cattle Ranching, a Force Behind Deforestation

Sep 2nd, 2019 8m 54s

Larry Fink, the influential chief executive of BlackRock, which manages more than $6 trillion in investments, wants the public to know that he is using his enormous power to press companies to “serve a social purpose.” Fink — a Democratic donor

Senate Democrats’ Campaign Arm Is Pressuring Consultants Not to Work With Leading Progressive Candidate in Colorado

Aug 30th, 2019 9m 10s

Before the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee endorsed former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in a 2020 Senate race, it pressured consultants from at least five firms not to work with a leading progressivein the race, the candidate told T

When Ilhan Omar Is Accused of Anti-Semitism, It’s News. When a Republican Smears Muslims, There’s Silence.

Aug 29th, 2019 8m 25s

Rep. Ilhan Omar participates in a panel discussion during the Muslim Collective For Equitable Democracy Conference and Presidential Forum at the The National Housing Center in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2019. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Im

Steve Schwarzman, a Top Financier of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, Is a Driving Force Behind Amazon Deforestation

Aug 28th, 2019 14m 7s

Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that

Emails Show Monsanto Orchestrated GOP Effort to Intimidate Cancer Researchers

Aug 27th, 2019 12m 18s

In 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer researcharm,the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classifiedglyphosate,an active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup,as a “probable carcinogen,” setting off a global debate about the wo

Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — And More Likely to Succeed

Aug 26th, 2019 15m 7s

If you tried to design a program with the aim of offending the top brass of the world’s most powerful corporations and the politicians whose careers they bankroll, you’d get something like what Bernie Sanders unveiled today in his $16.3 trillio

For Years, Reporters Questioned the Terror Prosecution of Hamad Hayat. Now He’s Been Freed.

Aug 23rd, 2019 9m 10s

After spending 14 years in prison on charges that he attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan, Hamid Hayat was freed on August 9 following a California judge’s decision to overturn the conviction. From the start, Hayat’s case had been con

Why the Democratic National Committee Must Change the Rules and Hold a Climate Debate

Aug 22nd, 2019 10m 55s

A girl holds a sign that reads “pull the emergency brake” at a ceremony to commemorate the Okjökull glacier in Iceland, on Aug. 18, 2019. Photo: Felipe Dana/AP Dear Members of the DNC: Your meeting in San Francisco this weekend takes place agai

Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Repressive Government

Aug 21st, 2019 10m

Google is set to re-staff its Cairo office, which more or less went dormant in 2014, following the military coup that brought President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power in Egypt. The move comes against the backdrop of well-documented abuses by the