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Each week The Intercept’s Washington, D.C. bureau brings you one important or overlooked story from the political world. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim and a rotating cast of journalists, politicians, academics and historians tell you what the rest of the media are missing.

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  • Solidarity Forever: Building Movements Amid Today’s Crises
    Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their new book, “Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.”
  • No to Biden, No to Trump: Insights From Swing-State Voters
    Analyzying double-haters’ criticisms of both presidential candidates with campaign adviser Anat Shenker-Osorio and Ryan Grim.
  • How the Gaza War Is Reshaping Social Media
    As reports of Gaza censorship on Instagram and Facebook raises alarms, Congress targets TikTok while X profits from government surveillance.
  • Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery
    Protesters have taken to the street on the island, decrying power blackouts and food shortages.
  • A New Haitian Revolution?
    Rampaging gangs, deploying revolutionary rhetoric, have vowed to repel an international intervention.
  • Intercepted: U.S. Endorses Pakistan’s Sham Election
    Allegations of widespread electoral fraud, rigging, and violence mar Pakistan’s election.
  • Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War
    Ryan Grim speaks to Stuart Reid about his new book, “The Lumumba Plot.”
  • Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange
    Over two days this week, a U.K. court will hear Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to the U.S.
  • “America’s Fair-Haired Boy,” Notorious Mass Murderer, on Brink of Indonesian Presidency
    Gen. Prabowo Subianto, who has been implicated in some of the country’s worst massacres, will soon be president of Indonesia.
  • No University Left Standing in Gaza
    As Israel targets educators in its war, the vice president of a major, now-destroyed Gaza university speaks out.
  • The Case for Open Borders
    Open immigration policies represent a strategic approach to addressing the migration crisis.
  • Pakistan Ambassador Opens Up
    Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, Munir Akram, discusses developments in Pakistan and the broader regime at a time of crisis.
  • BONUS: Narco Gangs Launch Rebellion In Ecuador
    Today we're sharing an episode from Counter Points, where Ryan Grim speaks to Guillaume Long, who served as Ecuador's foreign minister under former President Rafael Correa. They discuss the narco gangs rebellion in Ecuador, and how Trump-and-then-Biden-driven austerity in the country has hollowed out the state and let narcos fill the vacuum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
  • The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine
    The documentary “Israelism” explores Israel’s centrality in American Judaism.
  • No Safe Place in Gaza
    Humanitarian relief activist Amed Khan describes the worsening crisis on the ground in Gaza.
  • “Lever Time” Presents: Artificial Intelligence Is Denying Americans Health Care
    The Lever breaks down how the country’s largest health insurer uses artificial intelligence to deny rehabilitation services for older and disabled Americans.
  • “The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War
    In 2021, members of the Squad and its allies made history speaking up against Israel’s war on Gaza. Then came the backlash.
  • “The Squad,” Part 2: From Obama to Bernie, a Crisis and a Crossroads
    How crises during the Obama administration formed the politics of the Squad.
  • “The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie
    We bring you an audio documentary, adapted from Ryan Grim’s newest book “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.”
  • Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim On The Squad
    Ryan Grim and Krystal Ball discuss his new book, “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.”