The NSA's Hidden Spy Hubs In Eight US Cities
Thousands of people pass by the buildings each day and rarely give them a second glance, because their function is not publicly known.
View ArticleA 'Reckless' Fracking Company, Poisoned Springs And A Family Forced To Buy...
"I'm not against the US making progress, but not at the price of ruining our water. Water is the most precious thing we have."
View ArticleCameroon Is A Close US Ally — And Its Soldiers Carried Out A Shocking...
Soldiers in Cameroonian military garb executed two women and two children. The Intercept is publishing a full video of the killing.
View ArticleKoch-Backed Think Tank Finds That 'Medicare For All' Would Cut Health Care...
A Koch brothers-backed economist makes a $3 trillion error, but still finds that "Medicare for All" reduces costs and boosts wages.
View ArticleLove And Loathing In Las Vegas
Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.
View ArticleHe Grew Up Thinking He Was American — Until He Was Deported
Mauricio Cappelli, with his thick Wisconsin accent, was deported to his birth country after learning as an adult that he did not have citizenship.
View ArticleOne Of The Strongest Progressives In Congress Is Facing A Primary Challenger...
In a recent debate aired on Radio Boston, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley delivered an unusual mantra for her bid to unseat incumbent Rep. Michael Capuano, declaring that she would vote in a...
View ArticleChildren Separated Under Trump’s 'Zero Tolerance' Policy Say Their Trauma...
Sprawling over 50 acres of a repurposed oilfield workers' camp, Dilley, as the center is colloquially known, has room for 2,400 detainees. It currently holds about 1,500 people — all mothers and their...
View ArticleWorld's Leading Human Rights Groups Tell Google To Cancel Its China...
A blistering letter from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch calls a forthcoming search engine with blacklists "an alarming capitulation by Google on human rights."
View ArticleAmerica's War Narrative Focuses On Its Heroes And Victims. Afghans And Iraqis...
The young newspaper reporter wanted to write a book about the war he was covering. But the editors who read his proposal turned it down, all of them. They said the book wouldn't sell because Americans...
View ArticleIBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage To Develop Technology That Lets Police...
With access to images of thousands of unknowing New Yorkers offered up by NYPD officials, IBM was creating new search features that allow other police departments to search camera footage for images of...
View ArticleWhat Happened At The Lake
A father took his 10 year old fishing. She fell in the water and drowned. It was a tragic accident – then he was charged with murder
View ArticleGoogle's China Prototype Links Searches To Phone Numbers
The search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, was designed for Android devices, and would remove content deemed sensitive by China's ruling Communist Party regime, such as information about political...
View ArticleUndocumented Immigrant Faces Choice: Become ICE Informant Be Deported
At a monthly check-in at the ICE office, Carlos would report names of other undocumented people. The agent told him to focus on "illegal aliens" with criminal histories and charges like drunken driving...
View ArticleHow A Gang Of Hedge Funders Strip-Mined Kentucky's Public Pensions
Kentucky's willingness to gamble massively on high-risk alternative investments for its pensions has made the state an easy mark for Wall Street hucksters.
View ArticleKilling Journalists Is Wrong When The Saudis Do It — And When The United...
What lesson should be learned from the brutal murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi and the ongoing geopolitical fallout from his death?
View ArticleThe US Lost A Key Ally In Southern Afghanistan. But Abdul Raziq Was No Hero
Raziq was a classic product of America's failed policy in Afghanistan, wherein personalities have been propped up over — and sometimes at the expense of — institutions.
View ArticleFacebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested In 'White Genocide' —...
Earlier this week, The Intercept was able to select "white genocide conspiracy theory" as a pre-defined "detailed targeting" criterion on the social network to promote two articles to an interest group...
View ArticleFox News Is Poisoning America. Rupert Murdoch And His Heirs Should Be Shunned
The Murdoch family is warmly received in the hallways of power and money. But they should be ostracized in the same way that Steve Bannon has.
View ArticleAmazon HQ2 Will Cost Taxpayers At Least $4.6 Billion, More Than Twice What...
Amazon's new headquarters will bring it at least $4.6 billion in state and local subsidies, according to an analysis by Good Jobs First.
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