How A Decade Of The Drug War Turned Mexico Into A Burial Ground
An investigation by a team of independent Mexican journalists shows that some 2,000 clandestine graves have been found in Mexico between 2006 and 2016.
View ArticleA Family Braves Floods, Rats And Hunger In Tijuana As They Wait For A Chance...
"We want to cross the bridge and we want them to hear our claims," said a Honduran man who joined others from the refugee caravans in a hunger strike.
View ArticleThe Infiltrator
How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them, at Standing Rock and beyond.
View ArticleFor Owners Of Amazon's Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been...
Beginning in 2016, according to one source, Ring provided its Ukraine-based research and development team virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon's S3 cloud storage service that contained...
View ArticlePolice Make More Than 10 Million Arrests A Year, But That Doesn't Mean...
The bulk are for noncriminal behavior, drug violations and low-level offenses. Since 1980, arrests for drug violations have increased by 170 percent, and racial disparities in enforcement have grown...
View ArticleJair Bolsonaro's First 53 Days As President Of Brazil Have Been A Resounding,...
So much has happened over the last seven and a half weeks that it's impossible to take stock of it all. But by looking through the wreckage, perhaps you can get a sense of Brazil's political life as of...
View ArticlePalmer Luckey Wins Secretive Military AI Contract
A startup founded by the young and outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump is among the latest tech companies to quietly win a contract with the Pentagon as part of Project Maven, the secretive...
View Article'She Lied To My Face': Inside The Hectic Last Days Of Gymboree's Retail...
The situation at Gymboree echoes other recent retail bankruptcies in which executives got a king's ransom while everyone else got a firm handshake.
View ArticleThe Decriminalization Of Sex Work Is Edging Into The 2020 Campaign
The mere fact that presidential candidates are being asked about sex work represents a seismic shift in public discourse on the sex work community.
View ArticleFacebook's Ad Algorithm Is A Race And Gender Stereotyping Machine, New Study...
Facebook appears to deliver certain ads, including for housing and employment, in a way that aligns with race and gender stereotypes — even when advertisers ask for the ads to be exposed a broad,...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To The Death Penalty, The Supreme Court Legalized Torture Long Ago
The Supreme Court death penalty decision sparked outrage. But the court has long given constitutional cover to the most grotesque executions.
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Has A Novel Idea: Tax Corporations On The Profits They Claim
Due to the vagaries of American corporate accounting, companies routinely tell investors on conference calls that they made billions in profit over the previous quarter, then turn around and tell the...
View ArticleThe Largest Gang Raid In NYC History Swept Up Dozens Of Young People Who...
A new report, published ahead of the raid's third anniversary and shared exclusively with The Intercept, reveals troubling details about the prosecution and raises serious questions about due process,...
View ArticleBernie Sanders' New App Democratizes Organizing — And Panics People...
The campaign's new organizing tool, called BERN, helps volunteers track potential supporters and voters, allowing them to log the name and background of anyone they talk to, from friends and family...
View ArticleHow Erik Prince Used The Rise Of Trump To Make An Improbable Comeback
Erik Prince now offers a complete mercenary supply chain: anything from military hardware to social media manipulation in partnership with Project Veritas.
View ArticleScott Warren Prevented Migrant Deaths. The Government Wants Him in Prison
Thousands of migrants have died crossing the desert in Arizona. The US government is prosecuting activists who try to save lives and recover bodies.
View ArticleThousands Of Immigrants Suffer In Solitary Confinement In ICE Detention
Locked for weeks or months in solitary cells, mentally ill and vulnerable detainees are plagued by anxiety, anger, depression and suicidal impulses.
View ArticleThe Day I Met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
A little more than a year ago, I was sitting across from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a Queens diner for an interview. This was before anybody outside of her immediate community in New York City knew...
View ArticleHow Lobbyists And Insiders Could Override Voters To Choose The Democratic...
The new superdelegate rules, combined with a crowded field and early elections, could lead to a brokered convention in 2020.
View ArticleHow US Tech Giants Are Helping To Build China's Surveillance State
The OpenPower Foundation, an American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian government conduct mass surveillance against its...
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