Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.
Amid all of Donald Trump’s power grabs over the past six weeks, one little-noticed executive order may in the long run have the largest impact on the viability of the…
Kurdish Women Journalists Who Work Under Constant Threat Have Lessons to Share
This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six years and three months in prison on charges of membership in…
Palestinian Officials Say Israel Has Committed at Least 962 Ceasefire Violations
Israel has committed nearly 1,000 violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement since it was first implemented just six weeks ago, Palestinian officials say, including killing over 100 civilians. In a…
Trump’s Latest Order Aims to Stifle Legal Challenges to His Executive Actions
On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that aims to limit legal challenges to his administration’s actions by seeking to get judges to require monetary “security” payments from…
Trump Admin Reportedly Using AI to Label, Target Visa Holders as “Pro-Hamas”
The Trump administration is reportedly using AI technologies in order to label foreign nationals in the U.S. as “pro-Hamas” and revoke their visas, a new report finds, in a chilling…
Landlords Fined $80K for Threatening to Call ICE on Chicago Tenants
An Illinois circuit court judge has ordered Chicago landlords to pay former tenants $80,000 after they threatened to report the tenants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in June…
After Failures in the Courts, the GOP Is Threatening Sanctuary City Mayors
Republicans don’t want you to know how sanctuary cities work. The term itself is a bit misleading — there isn’t a one-size-fits-all definition, since sanctuary policies vary from city to…
Rep. Al Green Shares Why He Disrupted Trump’s Address to Congress
We speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green of Texas a day after he was censured by the House of Representatives for disrupting President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on…
Industry-Backed Bills Would Bar EPA From Carrying Out Its Mission, Experts Say
For decades, Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental Protection Agency that measures the threat of toxic chemicals. Most people…
Hoping for DOGE Transparency, The Intercept Publishes Musk’s Government Email
An independent news organization has obtained and published Elon Musk’s government email to encourage others to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in order to make his work as…
