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Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III speaks to the crowd during the We the People TX interfaith service, “A Night of Moral Resistance,” in Dallas, on Sept. 9, 2026.   Photo: AP Photo/Gabriela Passos “Why do you wanna have a pep rally when people are hurting?” That was the question Rev. Frederi...

It’s a superlative achieved again and again: The current election cycle is the most expensive on record, according to AdImpact, likely to be surpassed only by the next one. North of $16 billion have been raised ahead of Tuesday’s looming elections, with ad spending in House and Senate races toppi...

The artificial intelligence industry was poised to act as a kingmaker in the midterm elections. Super PAC networks bankrolled with millions of dollars from Anthropic and OpenAI executives spent heavily in competitive primaries earlier this year, including a high-profile race in New York City. The...

In the words of the biggest name in the outside elections-spending game, “Being pro-Israel is good policy and good politics.”  This midterms cycle, however, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s strategy seems to suggest the opposite. Contrary to its signature slogan , AIPAC’s name ...

With voters set to cast ballots in two critical races that could help determine control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress, fears of potential voter suppression are running high in Maine. Officials in the state have prepared for months against the possibility of election interference from fede...

Just after taking office in 2025, President Donald Trump picked a fight with Yemen’s Ansarullah, whom Americans routinely call “the Houthis.” Trump got a refresher in the limits of American military power, a lesson reinforced from Korea, Laos, and Vietnam to Afghanistan, Somalia, and Iraq. The U....

Alabama attorney Larry Grissett was checking Facebook in late September when he saw a news story about a man he represented in a murder trial more than 40 years ago. According to the article , a federal judge had just vacated the conviction of that client, Charles McCrory. Grissett was stunned. H...

Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro holds a picture of his father, convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro, during a motorcade with supporters in Goiania, Brazil, on Sept. 27, 2026.   Photo: Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images “I never thought about leaving the countr...

A DSA-backed California prosecutor who helped force Meta to pay a historic $17 billion settlement this year is on a glide path to become the top lawyer for Los Angeles — unless a tech investor cozy with Elon Musk can spend enough to stop her. San Francisco resident John Hering has sunk more than ...

Top defense officials are expressing increasing worry about the vulnerability of U.S. bases around the world and even within the United States as cheap drone technology upends long-standing defense strategies. The fear is mounting after a series recent attacks and threats against ground targets, ...

The U.S. military just can’t help meddling in the Philippines. At the turn of the 20th century, an American war of conquest killed “over 20,000 Filipino combatants” in addition to “as many as 200,000 Filipino civilians [who] died from violence, famine, and disease,” according to no less than the ...

A ngelina Resendiz’s voice on the phone was frantic. She was calling a friend from the barracks room of Jermiah Copeland, a fellow sailor at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia. They had spent the evening together, kissing and drinking, and now Resendiz, 21, needed to leave. It was the last time an...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has extended a line for the military’s religious leaders to reach him directly — and current and former military chaplains say they don’t want it. Hegseth announced the creation of a new Office of Religious Affairs on September 30, vowing that the office would give ...

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks during the WXYZ Channel 7 debate on Oct. 21, 2026, in Southfield, Mich.   Photo: Robin Buckson-Pool/Getty Images The PUMA spirit is back. The 2008 Democratic Party protest movement, inflamed by what Hillary Clinton supporters viewed as Barack...

After the Mississippi attorney general cleared a white cop for firing into a car and killing a Black toddler in a Walmart parking lot, video footage released by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety has revealed the fullest picture to date of what happened. The videos, provided to The Inter...

Democrats may be ahead in the polls. But can they withstand billions in campaign spending by Elon Musk and other MAGA oligarchs? Will the election be safe from intimidation and interference? And even if they do prevail, what would a Democratic Congress actually do to obstruct Trump’s attacks on d...

The Fellowship PAC, a super PAC fueled by crypto industry cash that once lavished praise on Donald Trump, is making a surprising pivot. When it was founded a year ago, news reports suggested that Fellowship PAC would concentrate on supporting Republicans. Since June, however, the only candidates ...

Brazilians will head to the polls on Sunday in one of the most consequential presidential elections of the last decade. The run-off election will determine the future of the largest democracy in Latin America and the fate of the Amazon rainforest. Incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is ...

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani attend an unveiling ceremony for a new 9/11 Memorial Wall on Sept. 9, 2026, in New York City.   Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The October 8 shooting of Oscar Belgal by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of hi...

Sofia Liguori, a research engineer working at DeepMind, resigned in protest this week from Google’s pioneering artificial intelligence laboratory. Unlike a wave of other AI researchers who have quit over fears AI might someday turn against humanity, Liguori stepped down over concern about her emp...

The Trump administration is waging a multi-pronged war on Somali people, painting them as criminals, murderers, and terrorists and using multiple federal agencies to target them at home and abroad. The campaign includes military attacks in Somalia, as well as arrests, deportations, and the weapon...

For months, the residents of Senatobia, Mississippi, have waited with a mix of dread and anticipation for state authorities to decide what, if anything, they plan to do about the killing of Kohen Wiley. Ever since the 1-year-old child was shot by a white police officer outside a local Walmart in ...

SANA’A, Yemen — For more than two weeks, Abdullah laid at home in al-Silw district, in Yemen’s besieged southwestern governorate of Taiz, as his body slowly failed. The 58-year-old had lived with kidney failure for two years, and his doctor had prescribed dialysis twice a week. Since the siege, h...

Astronomical fuel prices driven ever-higher by the U.S.–Israel war in Iran might be hitting Mike Rogers, too. The Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan spent more than $40,000 to cover a single private jet bill last month, according to campaign finance records reviewed by The Intercept. The...

As global governments and tech giants reckon with widespread of revelations of autonomous AI agents unexpectedly breaking into computer systems, documents obtained by The Intercept show the U.S. Army is looking to harness that exact technology to seek and destroy. Army Cyber Command is developing...

Twenty-five years ago — as the U.S. prepared to invade Afghanistan — Tom Engelhardt launched this publication as a form of pushback. TomDispatch began as an informal listserv offering commentary and collected articles from the global media to a select group of Tom’s friends and colleagues. A year...

For months, Democrats have forced Republicans to take vote after vote on President Donald Trump’s unpopular war on Iran. Now those votes could help Democrats retake Congress — and they will immediately have opportunities to follow through on their anti-war rhetoric. Democratic leaders like House ...

A fresh wave of outrage over the Trump administration’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has surged after two high-profile events involving ICE in the span of a week: the shooting of a young father in New York City last Thursday, and the Monday morning Homeland Security Investigations r...

In August of 2023, a series of wildfires broke out across Maui, killing more than 100 people, destroying thousands of homes, and causing billions in damage. Noelani Ahia, who is Kanaka Maoli and co-founder of Maui Medic Healers Hui, helped mobilize nearly 600 volunteers in Lāhainā, including doct...

In May 2023, the Pentagon’s shiny new fighter jet was not looking so shiny or new. Already a decade late and nearly $200 billion over its original cost estimate, the F-35 program faced a new crisis. An internal government watchdog report detailed a cascade of new problems with the program, which ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, during a news conference ahead of the State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026.   Photo: Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Agents from the Department of Homeland Security on Monday raided the Washington, D.C., home of ...

Earlier this month, Acting Secretary of the Army Adam R. Telle signed an order scheduling the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major who was convicted of killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. Two days later, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth made a startling announ...

After agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, raided the Washington, D.C., home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Monday morning, officials who spoke to The Intercept raised questions about whether the raid was political in nature. Thoug...

This story was reported and produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in the court system.  Sign up here to get their weekly newsletter . After being detained for five days in an airport hotel, a mother filed suit against a lo...

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes exploded at Trump administration attorneys on Monday after they admitted more than 400 trees had been cut down at a D.C. public golf course that President Donald Trump wants to turn into a championship-level course, like those of his personal properties. “430 t...

An aerial photo shows a Google data center on July 24, 2025, in Henderson, Nev.   Photo: Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Two wealthy lawfare warriors recently failed in their attempts to bury reporting on government-released documents. Both la...

Rep. Delia Ramirez is expected to introduce a bill to abolish the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate all immigrant detention in the United States on Tuesday, the Illinois Democrat shared exclusively with The Intercept. The Reimagining Safety Act would repeal “duplicative and overreachi...

ICE agents raid the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C.   Photo: Andrew Leyden/Getty Images In the mode of historic fascist regimes, President Donald Trump’s administration sent federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to raid the home ...

ICE agents raid the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Oct. 12, 2026, in Washington, D.C.   Photo: Andrew Leyden/Getty Images In the mode of historic fascist regimes, President Donald Trump’s administration sent federal agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to raid the home ...

A Republican-affiliated super PAC is having a little trouble finding Maine on a map. The Defending Main Street super PAC spent thousands of dollars on an attack ad to audiences thousands of miles away from the Maine Senate race it was targeting.  The ad hit Maine Democratic Senate candidate ...

The Pentagon quietly acknowledged additional Iran war deaths on Friday evening after The Intercept repeatedly demanded an explanation for inaccurate statistics on a War Department website tracking U.S. casualties from the conflict. Almost 900 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the war wit...

As the Trump administration unveiled an indictment earlier this year against 15 anti-ICE activists, many of whom identify as radicals, for purportedly tormenting federal agents last winter, a top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official took the podium. There were two types of protests, ...

Dana Joudeh was in shackles when she found out she was pregnant. The 35-year-old from the West Bank city of Nablus was newly married and had just spent her first night in an Israeli prison. Israeli forces had arrested her without charges and put her under administrative detention , an arbitrary c...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing a firestorm over how his administration handles policing and responds to federal immigration raids after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot 28-year-old father Oscar Belgal in front of his 5-year-old child in Manhattan on Thursday.&nbsp...

In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, a vengeful America was braying for blood. Nine out of 10 Americans approved of attacking Afghanistan. About one-third were comfortable with the prospect of Afghan civilian deaths . Less than a quarter thought the conflict would last more than two ye...

As so-called prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket embed themselves in every aspect of our daily lives, from elections to sports and entertainment, concerns have grown about what the explosion of these poorly understood, loosely regulated platforms could mean for regular people and democr...

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday afternoon, according to police. The shooting took place around 4 p.m. in Manhattan’s Marble Hill neighborhood, according to a statement from the New York Police Department. The NYPD said the victim w...

In his “state of the force” address last week, self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth coupled his usual attacks on the press, the Ivy League, and “beardos” and “weirdos” with new initiatives that have the potential to reshape the U.S. military for decades: an Autonomous Warfare Command, and an ef...

Armed, masked agents stand in front of a bulldozer near the U.S. border with Mexico on Oct. 5, 2026. A 200-year-old tree, which had for weeks been occupied by activists, was bulldozed to make way for Trump’s border wall.   Photo: Sierra Club Borderlands For more than 70 days, dozens of activ...

Williston, a small Vermont town of 10,000 people, is best known as a bucolic suburb of Burlington laden with historic buildings and farmland. Like the rest of the state, the hamlet is about 90 percent white. Williston has seen few of the sorts of large-scale Trump administration immigration opera...