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We Need to Kick Prediction Market Betting Out of Journalism While We Still Can

Treating journalism like a casino will harm reporting — and erode democracy.

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How Trump’s America Produces Normie Assassins

The only extremism would-be assassins like suspect Cole Tomas Allen share is an extreme response to Trump’s deranging politics.

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Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press

By suing The Atlantic for defamation, the FBI director is leveraging one of Trump’s legal tactics to tamp down free speech.

23.04.2026 8

The Intercept

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How the Lebanon Ceasefire Could Make It Harder to End the War on Iran

The deal is a welcome reprieve from Israel’s bombing — but separating Lebanon from the ceasefire with Iran sets a dangerous precedent.

20.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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Don’t Trust the Lebanon Ceasefire When Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza

News of less violence is welcome, but with Israel promising to stay in Lebanon, we need to remember the Gaza “ceasefire” has meant continued genocide.

16.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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The Forever Spoiler: Netanyahu Has Been Blowing Up Diplomacy With Iran for Decades

Israel’s vicious attack on Lebanon emerged as the biggest threat to the Iran ceasefire. That might be intentional.

09.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public

Killing the Presidential Records Act would allow private individuals to hold the keys to American history, forever.

09.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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How the War Strengthened Iran’s Hand Against the U.S. and Israel

Survival of the regime alone was a victory — but its demonstration of control over the Strait of Hormuz may be a strategic game-changer.

08.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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The Media Just Can’t Help Turning Iran Fighter Jet Rescue Into “Black Hawk Down”

Everyone reported the exact same story at the exact same time — and they all relied on the same liars who got us into this mess.

06.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War

By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.

04.04.2026 30

The Intercept

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Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection At All

The Supreme Court ruling has far-reaching, terrifying potential consequences — and not just for trans youth.

01.04.2026 10

The Intercept

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Trump's FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Really Serves One Powerful Man.

When you look at the fights FCC chair Brendan Carr actually picks, they aren’t local stories at all. They’re tailored for Donald Trump.

31.03.2026 10

The Intercept

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Trump Wanted to Replicate His Venezuela “Success” in Iran. What Has It Even Looked Like?

Trump carried out regime change without a change in regime in Venezuela. Time will tell what that means for the country.

31.03.2026 30

The Intercept

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What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research?

The destruction of parts of two universities in Iran fits with Israel’s M.O. of crippling countries’ ability to rebuild.

30.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily Lives

I had an ultimately harmless encounter with ICE at a TSA checkpoint. It was a preview of a new, more sophisticated way to terrorize people.

28.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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The Regime Survives, Trump Has to Deal, and Iranians Are the Biggest Losers

Short of a full-scale invasion, it looks like Trump will need to deal with the Iranian regime.

27.03.2026 10

The Intercept

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Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions

The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press.

26.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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U.S. Oil Blockade Could Condemn Cubans to Die Without a Deal

The American oil blockade of Cuba has made conditions on the island dire, and reaching a deal has become a matter of life and death.

24.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database

Agencies are reportedly pooling immigration data, Social Security numbers, and more into a central database. FPF is suing to learn how deep it goes.

17.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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Why We Have to Fight Back Against ICE Protesters’ Terror Convictions

Since his first inauguration, Trump has been throwing charges at protesters and seeing what sticks. He always failed — until now.

17.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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Senate Dem Leaders Are Trying to Sink Graham Platner. Voters Aren’t Convinced.

Despite his high-profile controversies, Platner is still popular with Mainers. But leadership isn’t budging from its centrist pick.

16.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran

By rallying behind process-based critiques, the Democrats are refusing to stand against the war on moral grounds.

13.03.2026 30

The Intercept

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I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.

My little horror movie review was introduced to prove a conception of antifa that — like many of the monsters we scream at in horror flicks —...

13.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention”

Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.

10.03.2026 30

The Intercept

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Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.

Israeli bombing left cars in Gaza immobile and roads impassable. The assault on Iran has only spiked prices and worsened conditions.

09.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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Surveillance, Propaganda, Intimidation: Dems Need to Wise Up That ICE Is a National Security Threat

DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections.

06.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism

A military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.

05.03.2026 30

The Intercept

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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

05.03.2026 20

The Intercept

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CNN Could Be Next Up for a Right-Wing Reboot Thanks to the Ellisons

With Paramount’s takeover of CNN owner Warner Bros. Discovery, the network might become the next CBS News.

03.03.2026 10

The Intercept

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The Regime Change President Who Won’t (or Can’t) Actually Change Any Regimes

The Iran war shows that Trump is loving his military interventions — but they are never what he claims them to be.

02.03.2026 10

The Intercept

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Fool Me Twice: The Case for War With Iran Is Even Thinner Than It Was for Iraq

The case for invading Iraq was based on lies. The Trump administration’s case for war with Iran hardly exists at all.

28.02.2026 30

The Intercept

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Made-in-America Guns Are Fueling Death and Destruction in Mexico

The killing of drug cartel kingpin El Mencho has led to retaliatory violence in Mexico — much of it carried out with American-made guns.

28.02.2026 20

The Intercept

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Trump Uses the Courts to Intimidate Critics. The Media Must Fight Back.

Federal agencies are using investigations to stifle speech and chill the questioning of those in power.

27.02.2026 30

The Intercept

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Democrats Should Never Again Rise to Trump’s Anti-Trans Bait

Democrats stayed seated as Trump attacked trans kids at the State of the Union. With midterms coming, there’s more where that came from.

25.02.2026 10

The Intercept

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There’s No “Progressive Foreign Policy” Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide

Before Democrats can articulate a more humane foreign policy, they need to reckon with the mortal sin of the genocide in Gaza.

25.02.2026 10

The Intercept

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Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped?

ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks.

17.02.2026 10

The Intercept

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It’s Correct and Moral to Use the Olympics to Speak Out About Politics

Sports can't be separated from politics, and athletes are well within their rights to criticize Trump on the world stage.

17.02.2026 10

The Intercept

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Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us

The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous — a familiar tactic to this incarcerated writer.

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The Intercept

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Leakers Helped Destroy the Deportation Case Against Tufts Student

The disclosures revealed the case was built entirely on an op-ed Rümeysa Öztürk co-wrote, a chilling attack on free speech.

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The Intercept

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The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk

Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.

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The Intercept

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Mamdani embodies the same hope that brought my parents to America

06.11.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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I thought I was weak. But the anxiety I felt as a mom was by design.

06.11.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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I need SNAP to survive. We are people, not political pawns.

01.11.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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Testing on dogs is no longer 'necessary.' Stop forcing them to suffer.

01.11.2025 10

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Kids will be the biggest victims of Trump's anti-science policies

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Chelsea Clinton: Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our history

25.10.2025 10

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We've witnessed the Ukraine-Russia war from opposite fronts

23.10.2025 30

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Big Pharma wants you medicated. We're dying because of it.

23.10.2025 10

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I'm a Republican. Renewing assault weapons ban is common sense.

13.10.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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I'm a Republican. A shutdown isn't what voters like me want.

07.10.2025 10

Arizona Republic

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