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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the phone at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, 2025.

Pentagon Insiders on Hegseth Leak Hypocrisy: “Full On Shit Show”

Current and former Defense officials describe Pentagon unrest over accusations of leaks while their boss shares classified information.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 24: Demonstrators gather to protest against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations on April 24, 2025 in New York City. Many of the deportees now detained at El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) were sent there without court hearings under the Alien Enemies Act after a deal was brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele. A federal judge in Maryland recently ordered the return of a 20-year-old Venezuelan man who was deported, citing a prior ruling involving Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was mistakenly deported to his native El Salvador. The Trump administration has stated the justification as gang affiliation and as part of a broader deportation strategy. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.

Natasha Lennard

In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda.

The Intercept Briefing

Trump’s Very Stable Genius Coin

Reporters Matt Sledge and Jessica Washington discuss Trump’s growing crypto empire as he deregulates the industry.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The White House said they are expecting thousands of children and adults to participate in the annual tradition of rolling colored eggs down the White House lawn, which was started by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Hegseth Purges Defense Advisory Board After MAGA Came For It

President Donald Trump talks to reporters after inspecting the North Lawn with members of the White House grounds crew to look for a place to put a 100-foot-tall flag pole on April 23, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Chilling Dissent

Trump Doesn’t Need an Executive Order to Kill Progressive Nonprofits

Jessica Washington

Chilling Dissent

A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters. So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?

Chilling Dissent

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

Bait and Switch: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Citizenship Trap

The Intercept Briefing

Unchecked: Rep. Ayanna Pressley on the President’s Power Grab

Voices

US President Donald Trump, right, and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 14, 2025. Bukele said a Maryland man deported to his country by Trump's administration would not be returned to the US, even as the Supreme Court has called for Trump's administration to facilitate his release. Photographer: Ken Cedeno/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voices

The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America

U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House on April 17, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Voices

Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears

Politics

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - APRIL 24: U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the Pentagon on April 24, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. The meeting comes amid controversy following reports that Hegseth discussed sensitive military communications in an unsecured Signal chat for the second time with his wife, brother and others. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

After Tucker Carlson Guest Attacked a Defense Advisory Board, the Pentagon Nuked Its Website

AI Firm Behind Mysterious Trump Donation Is Run by Alleged Election Overthrow Plotter

Then Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference, July 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.

Congress’s Biggest Financial Priority Is “Stablecoin.” What the Hell Is That?

An advertisement featuring Donald Trump with Bitcoin in Hong Kong on April 6, 2025.

The Galaxy Brains of the Trump White House Want to Use Tariffs to Buy Bitcoin

Justice

Facing Life in Prison Based on Shoddy Evidence, a Florida Mother Makes a Deal

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, right, stands with supporters during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025.

The War on Immigrants

The Evidence Linking Kilmar Abrego Garcia to MS-13: A Chicago Bulls Hat and a Hoodie

Jessica Washington

Demonstrators during a 'Day Without Immigrants' protest in Detroit, Michigan, US, on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The Trump administration has rapidly expanded its immigration crackdown, engaging multiple federal agenciesfrom the departments of Defense and Justice and even the Treasuryto bolster the ranks of federal immigration agents at the border and in the interior of the country. Photographer: Nicolo Filippo Rosso/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Universities Told Students to Leave the Country. ICE Just Said They Didn’t Actually Have To.

Natasha Lennard

An U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) officer in New Orleans, Louisiana prior to Super Bowl LIX on February 08, 2025.

The War on Immigrants

No-Bid ICE Contract Went to Former ICE Agents Sued for Fabricating Criminal Evidence on the Job

National Security

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a meeting announcing the F-47 6th generation fighter jet in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday March 21, 2025.

Pete Hegseth Is Gutting Pentagon Programs to Reduce Civilian Casualties

Pentagon Considers Cutting Its Sexual Assault Rules

Jessica Washington, Nick Turse

A Tesla car dealership stands doused in blue paint following vandalism by activists of the group New Generation on March 31, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.

Police Across the Country Are on High Alert Over Tesla Protests

The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home

World

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks to reporters in the Senate Subway during a series of confirmation votes for U.S. President Donald Trump's cabinet nominees at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Senate voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and completed a procedural vote for the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fetterman Campaign Bleeds Money

People try to salvage some items in the devastated yard of a school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, on April 4, 2025, a day after it is hit by an Israeli strike.

Voices

“An Abrupt Plunge Into Hell”: Gaza After the Ceasefire

UNITED STATES - MARCH 13: Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar, D-Texas, right, Reps. Jesús "Chuy" García, D-Ill., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., conduct a news conference during the House Democrats 2025 Issues Conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Progressives Push to Assert Congress Power Over Yemen War

UNITED STATES - MARCH 25: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., leaves the Senate Democrats' lunch in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trying to Block Arms to Israel, Bernie Sanders Denounces AIPAC’s Massive Election Spending

Technology

View of a surveillance tower next to the US-Mexico border fence as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 24, 2019.

Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border

Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Protect Yourself

Nikita Mazurov, Matt Sledge

U.S. Officials Called Signal a Tool for Terrorists and Criminals. Now They’re Using It.

Musk Is Firing Federal Workers Who Prevent Bloated Tech Contracts

Jessica Washington

Environment

Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup

Schuyler Mitchell

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine

Which LA Fire Victims Get Money on GoFundMe — and Who Gets Left Out?

FILE - This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before, Feb. 4, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. Norfolk Southern announced new details Monday, Sept. 18, about its plan to compensate East Palestine residents for lost home values since the fiery derailment disrupted life in the eastern Ohio town in February. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Trump Inauguration Official’s “Phony Charity” Allegedly Pocketed East Palestine Train Disaster Funds

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