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In Gaza, where universities lie in rubble and classrooms have been replaced by screens, education has refused to die.
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Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
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This episode revisits Lebron Gaither’s case and others in which police were reckless and careless with the lives of those they pressured to become informants.
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How confidential informants like LeBron Gaither, recruited by police as a teen and killed by a drug dealer, are seen by the criminal system as disposable.
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“The GHF model is one of the worst ‘aid’ — and I use ‘aid’ in quotes — models that’s been tried in the 21st century, if not longer than that,” said Anastasia Moran, advocacy director at MedGlobal, a Chicago-based medical aid organization that has teams inside Gaza.
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The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.
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The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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“Real wages — that is, wages adjusted for inflation — are going down for most people. The bottom 90 percent of Americans are in very bad shape,” says Reich.
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Robert Reich speaks to The Intercept Briefing podcast about the economy and the state of Democratic Party politics under Trump.
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Just as Donald Trump demonizes leftist organizers today as domestic terrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as rioters and insurrectionists. https://t.co/FMXiyzjhNl
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This is how the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences.
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How the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — leads to tragic consequences.
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After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call.
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After J. Edgar Hoover cast civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as a “liar,” the New York City Police Department’s spy unit heeded the call.
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This isn’t even the first time Grok has praised Hitler.
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Grokipedia, the anti-woke Wikipedia alternative, aims to create a parallel version of the truth for the right wing.
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With a Bitcoin crash wiping out a trillion dollars of value in the past few weeks, the industry is counting on friendly regulators in Washington to give it a boost.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a crypto regulator, and its sole member could be Trump nominee Mike Selig, a former crypto industry lawyer.
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Police raided the wrong home, killed an innocent woman, then planted marijuana in her basement to cover up their mistake.
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The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.
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This is what you should know about the D.C. shooting suspect's CIA-backed militia unit.
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Afghan Zero Units hold clues to many of the war’s mysteries, including how the CIA engineered deadly night raids that contributed to the Taliban’s victory.
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Members of Gaza’s Civil Defense force describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
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Gazan civil workers describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
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This is how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.
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Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.
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“We are in this era where we need new ideas, we need new leaders, we need people who are going to push the party in a new direction,” says Saikat Chakrabarti.
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“My goal, honestly, is to replace a huge part of the Democrat establishment,” says AOC’s former chief of staff, who is running for Nancy Pelosi’s open seat.
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The documents obtained by The Intercept illustrate how the broadening net of on-campus intelligence gathering swept up constitutionally protected speech in the name of “social listening.”
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Internal emails reveal U.S. universities’ playbooks for cracking down on the student movement for Palestine.
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The so-called ceasefire might seem like a good excuse to bury the hatchet and enjoy a quieter family dinner, but it’s not.
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Why we need to keep pushing for the end of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even if that means an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner.
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“I still see the war everywhere: in people’s faces, in the children, in the echo of planes and drones.”
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Living to see a ceasefire means living in a “city of ghosts,” surrounded by rubble and memories of what’s been lost.
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Need a smart book to gift? Check out our recommendations from August.
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Book recommendations from staffers, from fiction to poetry.
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