Quantcast
Channel: Digg: theintercept.com Stories
Browsing all 183 articles
Browse latest View live

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 Article


A '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 Article


Cameroon 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 Article

Koch-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 Article

Love 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 Article


He 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 Article

One 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 Article

Children 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 Article


World'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 Article


America'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 Article

IBM 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 Article

What 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 Article

Google'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 Article


Undocumented 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 Article

How 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 Article


Killing 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 Article

The 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 Article


Facebook 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 Article

Fox 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 Article

Amazon 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.

View Article
Browsing all 183 articles
Browse latest View live