How A Private Surveillance Firm Watching Standing Rock Spread Fear To Keep...
As law enforcement began evicting residents of North Dakota’s Oceti Sakowin camp, the private security company reached for ways to stay in business.
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A copy of a pilot Uber insurance plan shows relatively flimsy, cheap protection against on-the-job injuries.
View ArticleHow The Pentagon Uses 'Jeopardy' To Train Its Special Operations Forces
At Joint Special Operations University, soldiers are trained with an interactive video game that uses knockoffs of "Jeopardy" and "$25,000 Pyramid." It's kind of lame.
View ArticleFacebook’s Tough-On-Terror Talk Overlooks White Extremists
The social network has detailed its fight against jihadist groups but has nothing to say about domestic radical groups.
View ArticleRepublican Lawmakers Buy Health Insurance Stocks As Repeal Effort Moves Forward
Just as the House Republican bill to slash much of the Affordable Care Act moved forward, some lawmakers started trading health care stocks.
View ArticleHe Fought Against ISIS And Almost Got Killed. Now He's Facing Charges Of...
Josh Walker went to Syria to fight ISIS. When he returned home to Britain, he faced a legal quandary that could put him in prison for 10 years.
View ArticleThe Cost Of Liberation
The cost of rolling back ISIS in Iraq — and particularly Mosul — has been staggering.
View ArticleFinancial Advisers Want To Rip Off Small Investors. Trump Wants To Help Them...
The fiduciary rule, designed to protect investors from predatory advisers, went in effect on June 9. Now the financial industry aims to kill it.
View ArticleThe Incredible Lost History Of The Civil Rights Movement's Economic Agenda
With enormous amounts of effort, political movements can break social silence and force what truly matters onto the agenda of the whole country. Doing that with the Federal Reserve was one of the key...
View Article100,000 Pages Of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust In An Oregon Barn...
For decades, some of the dirtiest, darkest secrets of the chemical industry have been kept in Carol Van Strum’s barn.
View ArticleKoch Brothers Orchestrate Grassroots Effort To Lower Corporate Taxes,...
The billionaire brothers' political network has plans to plant questions at town halls and seize on Trump's receptiveness to corporate tax cuts.
View ArticleHow Do Chicago Police Treat Mental Health? With SWAT Raids
Funded by the feds for counterterrorism, Chicago’s militarized police are instead turned loose on the city’s most vulnerable.
View ArticleThese Are The Technology Firms Lining Up To Build Trump's 'Extreme Vetting'...
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations division hosted an "industry day" for technology companies interested in building a new tool for "extreme vetting."
View ArticleHow American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics
The Atlas Network has spent decades building up libertarian institutions across Latin America. Now the work is paying off.
View ArticleThe Sordid Double Life Of Washington's Most Powerful Ambassador
Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE's influential ambassador to Washington, led a hard-partying life that eventually collided with his professional world.
View ArticleUndercover In North Korea: 'All Paths Lead To Catastrophe'
The Intercept spoke recently to Suki Kim about her time as an undercover investigative reporter in North Korea and the insight it gives her on the current crisis.
View ArticleThe Unlikely Jihadi
The FBI pressured a lonely young man into a bomb plot. Now he’s serving life in prison.
View ArticleNSA Broke The Encryption On File-Sharing Apps Kazaa And eDonkey
The spy agency didn’t care about copyright violations; it was trying to determine if it could find valuable intelligence.
View ArticleHow The NSA Built A Secret Surveillance Network For Ethiopia
Amid concerns about Ethiopia's human rights abuses, the NSA forged a secret relationship with the country that expanded exponentially over the years.
View ArticleHow Trump's Top Economic Adviser Wrecked The Economy With Goldman Sachs
At Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn nearly wrecked the economy. As Trump's top economic adviser, he's dismantling the rules put in place after the financial crisis.
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