Podcasts by Deconstructed

Cluster Bomb Fight in the House from 2023-07-15T21:00

Friday afternoon, the House narrowly passed a defense bill full of Republican culture war priorities. Hopeful efforts earlier in the week to rein in U.S. foreign policy fizzled out by week’s end...

Price Controls: An Inflation Solution That Doesn’t Screw Workers from 2023-07-07T09:30:23

Centrist and right-wing economists continue to advocate for laying off workers and engineering a recession to address inflation. But why not set price controls instead? This week on Deconstructe...

Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: The Supreme Court Has A Billionaire Problem from 2023-07-03T19:20:53

Today, we’re sharing an episode of the podcast Lever Time with David Sirota from our friends at the investigative news site The Lever.  Listen

New NIH Emails Released: What Are Officials Trying to Hide About Covid’s Origins? from 2023-06-30T15:00:30

A top National Institutes of Health official told Covid scientists he uses his personal email to evade strictures of the Freedom of Information Act, according to records obtained by congressiona...

On the Ground in Ukraine from 2023-06-23T09:30:47

This week, Russia accused Ukraine of striking a bridge that connects mainland Ukraine with the Crimean Peninsula. This is amid the emerging counteroffensive by Ukraine attempting to push back Ru...

Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: Pentagon Whistleblower, The Government Is Hiding “Non-Human” Technology from 2023-06-19T10:00:15

Today, we’re sharing an episode of the podcast Lever Time with David Sirota from our friends at the investigative news site The Lever. David sits down with prominent investigative journalist&nbs...

A Conversation With Joe Manchin’s Former Right Hand, Scott Sears from 2023-06-16T09:30:34

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., says he’s leaving his options open when asked about a presidential run. No Labels, a centrist political organization, is looking to run a split ticket between o...

Imran Khan: U.S. Was Manipulated By Pakistan Military Into Backing Overthrow from 2023-06-06T16:03:38

Imran Khan became Pakistan’s prime minister through a most unusual route. As he explained in an interview on Sunday night, Khan was for decades the nation’s most famous cricketer,...

A Dmitri Rebuttal by Messaging Expert Anat Shenker-Osorio from 2023-06-02T09:30:33

Why is “fund the police” a losing message for Democrats? That’s the question and type of messaging Deconstructed is exploring this week with Anat Shenker-Osorio, the founder of ASO Communication...

Economist Stephanie Kelton on the Debt Limit, a Potential Catastrophe We’re Risking for No Reason from 2023-05-26T09:30

Ever since Congress created a federal debt limit, it has managed to raise it before U.S. borrowing reached the limit. For the first time, it looks as though that may not happen, and the g...

Turkish Elections: Erdogan’s Government Arrested and Expelled International Election Observers from 2023-05-18T15:57:40

On Sunday, as the first round of Turkish elections were underway, the government expelled a team of international election observers. The delegation, including members of Spain’s parliament, was...

Around the World Update: Turkey, Pakistan, and Palestine from 2023-05-12T09:30:05

On Sunday, Turkey’s presidential election could unseat Recep Tayyip Erdogan. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim has a wide-ranging conversation with guests, covering Turkey's election, t...

Dmitri: The Man Financing a Political Counterrevolution from 2023-05-06T09:30:53

This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim is joined by Dmitri Mehlhorn, a tech executive who has emerged as one of the most powerful financiers in the Democratic Party and a strategist who often tak...

Ben Smith on the Bust of the Digital Media Age from 2023-04-28T09:30:19

The media world over the last few week has been rocked by major disruptions: Fox ousts Tucker Carlson, CNN fires Don Lemon, BuzzFeed News is shutting down, Listen

“Myth America”: New Book Dismantles 20 Legends About Our Past from 2023-04-21T09:30:42

Recently, peculiar skirmishes have broken out in the U.S. over our history. In Listen

Marianne Williamson on Being a TikTok Phenom from 2023-04-14T15:17:52

If engagement on TikTok is any indication, a Democratic primary held today among people under 50 would result in a landslide for Marianne Williamson. Williamson has only posted 63 vi...

The Teamsters and the UAW Gear Up for Struggle from 2023-04-07T15:08:56

Last month, the United Auto Workers took part in a historic election. Shawn Fain was elected president of the union, who represents a reform group, looking to give more power to its workers. At ...

A Is for Abuse: The Saga of For-Profit Schooling in Africa from 2023-03-28T09:30:24

Bridge International is the largest for-profit education chain in the world, serving upward of 750,000 children in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Liberia, and India. The founders, two Harvard grad...

Understanding the Silicon Valley Bank Run from 2023-03-17T09:30:44

In a matter of a few days, Silicon Valley Bank collapsed when a panic set in, Listen

Ending the Hidden Occupation from 2023-03-10T10:30:12

This week, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., brought forward a war powers resolution, backed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus, that would bring U.S. troops home from Syria. On Wednesday night, the...

Win Debates Like Mehdi Hasan from 2023-03-03T10:30:01

Mehdi Hasan’s debates tend to go viral, like those against John Bolton, Erik Prince, or a Saudi ambassador. Hasan wipes the floor during debates and interviews. But it’s not an easy process; as ...

How Progressive Democrats Were Railroaded in the Primaries by AIPAC and Allied Groups from 2023-02-26T10:30:06

This week on Deconstructed, host Ryan Grim revisits his reporting on how the Democratic Majority for Israel, Mainstream Democrats PAC, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spent so m...

The Villages Crush a Grassroots Revolt from 2023-02-18T17:55:45

In 2019, residents of The Villages, an iconic retirement community in Florida, were suddenly hit with a 25 percent hike in their property taxes. In the master-planned community of 130,000 a...

The Villages Crush a Grassroots Revolt from 2023-02-18T17:55:45

In 2019, residents of The Villages, an iconic retirement community in Florida, were suddenly hit with a 25 percent hike in their property taxes. In the master-planned community of 130,000 a...

How the FBI Infiltrated Racial Justice Protests in 2020 from 2023-02-10T10:30

As the racial justice movement was heating up in 2020, a new “activist” arrived on the scene in Denver, Colorado. The man, who looks like a biker, is named Michael Adam Windecker II. He was able...

Tema Okun on Her Mythical Paper on White Supremacy from 2023-02-03T18:00:02

“White Supremacy Culture,” an article by Tema Okun, was first written to outline and analyze how white supremacy operates in organizations. But in the past few years, with renewed attention on t...

Biden’s New Chief of Staff Might Be Very Bad News from 2023-01-24T19:33:25

President Joe Biden is naming Jeff Zients to be his next chief of staff. Zients, a corporate Democrat, was previously in the White House helping steer its pandemic response and leading vaccinati...

The Hidden Siege of Nagorno-Karabakh from 2023-01-20T16:27:52

Russia brokered a cease-fire agreement in 2020 between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The two were engaged in a bloody six-week war, the deadliest in the region in decades. Conflict between the two cou...

It’s Important to Talk Openly About Suicide from 2023-01-13T17:23:53

Ten years ago this week, Aaron Swartz, a key figure in the fight for an open internet, died by suicide. This week we also learned of the tragic death of New York Times jour...

Israel’s Rightward Turn from 2023-01-06T10:37:50

Last week Israel inaugurated the most right-wing government in its history, with the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the helm once again. Avner Gvaryahu of the g...

What We Found in the New JFK Files from 2022-12-22T20:49:13

Last week, the Biden administration declassified a trove of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. While this action brings the government closer to the full disclo...

Inside the Fight for Climate Justice from 2022-12-13T10:19:27

The new documentary “To the End” takes viewers behind the nationwide organizing efforts that culminated in the landmark climate provisions of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The film focuses on R...

How Purple is Georgia? from 2022-12-08T20:25:33

This week’s Georgia Senate runoff gives Democrats a 51-49 majority in the upper chamber. Raphael Warnock raised a staggering $175 million this cycle to take on former football star Herschel Walker,...

Philly’s Reform Prosecutor Reacts to His Impeachment from 2022-11-29T10:32:59

Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania state House voted to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, citing the “catastrophic consequences” of his reform-minded approach to the office...

The Data Guy Who Got the Midterms Right from 2022-11-24T02:52:24

How is it that Democrats were able to buck historical trends and avoid the kind of midterms massacre traditionally suffered by the party in power? And why did so many election forecasts miss the...

Bonfire of the Twitterverse from 2022-11-18T10:23:15

This week Elon Musk gave Twitter employees an ultimatum: commit to a new, “hardcore” workplace culture of “long hours at high intensity,” or get out. Jon Schwarz talks with Bloomberg reporter Mi...

AOC and Mo Mitchell on the Midterms from 2022-11-12T10:30:01

On Tuesday, Democrats miraculously avoided the sort of major rout at the polls normally associated with a new president’s first midterms. Most surprisingly, Democrats still have a narrow path to...

For Abortion Rights, Could Kentucky Be the Next Kansas? from 2022-11-04T09:12:36

In August, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have removed abortion rights from the state’s constitution. In a few days, voters in Kentucky will weigh in on a simi...

Can a Progressive Populist Win in Trump Country? from 2022-10-28T09:33:14

The race for Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District pits Rep. Matt Cartwright, a populist Democrat, against Jim Bognet, a Trump-endorsed Republican. The district is one of a small handful nat...

How Democrats Botched Impeachment from 2022-10-22T09:20:45

In their new book “Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” reporters Karoun Demirjian and Rachael Bade lay out how Democrats put political self-prese...

Senate Races That Could Tip The Balance from 2022-10-14T09:01:27

The last two times a new president confronted his first midterm election, it turned out to be a wave year for the opposition party. 2022 is confounding that pattern, with Democrats slightly favo...

The Journalist Censored for Defending Rashida Tlaib from 2022-10-07T09:26:44

“I want you all to know that among progressives, it has become clear that you cannot claim to hold progressive values yet back Israel’s apartheid government.” Those words, spoken by Rep. Rashida...

Bolsonaro on the Brink as the Far Right Rises in Europe from 2022-09-30T09:02:14

This Sunday, Brazilian voters head to the polls to decide between incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Earlier this week in Italy, Giorgia Meloni of...

Is Crypto a Big Scam? from 2022-09-23T09:26:58

Last week, the White House released Listen

When the Uneasy Democratic Coalition Shares a Neighborhood from 2022-09-16T09:13:47

When Helena Andrews-Dyer joined a local mom group in her gentrifying Washington, D.C., neighborhood, she found that being one of the only Black mothers in the mix gave her a new outlook on race ...

Democrats Could Codify Roe from 2022-09-09T09:01:09

If Democrats can add a single seat in the Senate and hold their majority in the House in the midterm elections, they could actually write Roe v. Wade into law. Tom Bonier is a data analyst who d...

Aboard the Trump Train from 2022-09-02T09:30:42

January 6 committee hearings are expected to resume in September. This week’s guest, documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, was Listen

What’s It Like to Be a Red-State Abortion Doctor Post-Roe? from 2022-08-26T09:30:31

The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the precedents set by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which established the right to abortion in the U.S., has created a chaotic legal si...

A Progressive Vision for the Economy from 2022-08-19T06:00:09

Since it was founded 23 years ago, the Center for Economic and Policy Research has sought to challenge the right-wing consensus that often rules economic policymaking in Washington, D.C. CEPR co...

Biomedical Racism, Queer Theory, and the Monkeypox Epidemic from 2022-08-11T10:00:13

By the time the Department of Health and Human Services declared a public health emergency in response to monkeypox last week, there were already nearly 7,000 cases in the U.S. Microbiologist Jo...

Progressives on Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit and US-China Policy from 2022-08-03T09:00:02

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi< landed in Taiwan on Tuesday, ending speculation about whether she would visit the island during her tour of east Asia. Political reactions in the U.S. have been di...

Behind the Manchin Miracle from 2022-07-29T09:30:21

On Wednesday evening, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., put out a joint statement announcing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The more than ...

What We May Never Know About Jan. 6 from 2022-07-23T18:28:41

This week’s hearing of the House Select Committee on the January 6, 2021, attack revealed embarrassing new details about President Donald Trump and his supporters, including footage of Sen. Josh...

Vietnam to the Contras: The Life and Journalism of Robert Parry from 2022-07-15T09:00:51

A new collection of work by the late investigative reporter Robert Parry, titled “American Dispatches,” chronicles the late journalist’s career, from his origins as a student activist to his lat...

Why Jason Kander Walked Away From Politics from 2022-07-07T22:53:49

Former Missouri Senate candidate Jason Kander was in the middle of a promising run for mayor of Kansas City when he unexpectedly dropped out of the race to seek treatment for mental health probl...

How the Democrats Forgot the New Deal and Paved the Way for Trumpism from 2022-07-01T09:01:19

In Robert Kuttner’s new book, “Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy,” he explains how we got to our present political inflection point, how high the stak...

The Colombian Left Comes to Power from 2022-06-24T18:12:06

After this week’s runoff elections in Colombia, former Bogotá Mayor Gustavo Petro is set to become the South American country’s first leftist president. Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, director for the And...

The Implosion of Progressive Organizing from 2022-06-14T07:31:59

In the Biden era, progressive groups in Washington have increasingly found themselves paralyzed by internal tumult at the very moment when their efforts are needed to push the more ambitious ele...

Revisiting the Capitol Insurrection from 2022-06-10T19:58:51

This week the select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the capitol began hearings. We thought this would be a good time to revisit the interviews we did after January 6th, 2021. Fi...

Can Democrats Win in Rural America? from 2022-06-04T09:00:16

In her new book, “Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It,” Maine state Sen. Chloe Maxmin tackles one of the most pressing problems confronting the mode...

Elizabeth Warren and Lori Wallach on the Solar War With China from 2022-05-26T19:15:21

In March, the Commerce Department announced that it would be investigating Chinese solar firms suspected of illegally dumping low-cost panels onto the international market. Some of the same comp...

Pennsylvania Surges Left at the Polls from 2022-05-19T21:04:53

Progressive Democrats scored a number of high-profile wins in the Pennsylvania primaries this week. State Rep. Summer Lee seems poised to win her race in the Listen

The U.S. Is Stealing Afghanistan's Money and Starving Its People from 2022-05-13T09:32:35

As their country’s economic crisis continues to spiral out of control, Afghans are finding themselves forced to resort to increasingly desperate measures just to get enough food for their f...

The Lab-Leak Theory Is Looking Stronger by the Day. Here's What We Know. from 2022-05-06T18:31:32

In the early days of the pandemic, the theory that Covid-19 may have originated in a virology lab was often dismissed as a xenophobic right-wing conspiracy theory. Over the intervening months an...

Re-Broadcast: Ilyse Hogue on the Roots of the Movement to Overturn Roe from 2022-05-03T05:03:18

Earlier this evening, Politico reported on what appears to be a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court striking down Roe V. Wade. In light of the news, we're re-running our interview with Ilys...

Steven Donziger vs. Big Oil from 2022-04-27T09:48:19

This week, after nearly 1,000 days of arbitrary detention, the environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger was released from house arrest. On this week’s podcast, Donziger talks to Int...

On the Road With Bernie Sanders from 2022-04-22T09:05:26

As deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential run, Ari Rabin-Havt got an intimate look at the daily life of the independent senator from Vermont. Now he’s chronicled those ex...

Mackenzie Fierceton On Her Battle With UPenn from 2022-04-16T09:29:56

In 2020, former foster child Mackenzie Fierceton received a Rhodes Scholarship as a self-identified “first generation, low income” student at the University of Pennsylvania. But the acclaim quic...

A Truce In Yemen from 2022-04-09T09:09:08

The Yemen cease-fire, which took effect last week, is the first serious truce between the country's warring parties in six years. The factions in Yemen agreed to a two-month truce proposed by th...

David Sirota Goes to the Oscars from 2022-04-02T09:00:48

David Sirota went from advising Sen. Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign to co-developing the story for Adam McKay’s film “Don’t Look Up,” which was nominated for — among other thin...

Joe Manchin Has Some Thoughts on Green Energy from 2022-03-26T09:30:49

The Biden administration is drafting an executive order to invo...

Are Prices "Engines of Chaos"? from 2022-03-18T09:01:24

In standard economic theory, prices are simply expressions of information about the scarcity of (and demand for) goods. But in his new book “Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chao...

Don’t Cry for Me, Hydrocarbons from 2022-03-12T10:29:05

The CERAWeek conference took place this week in Houston. CERAWeek is an annual gathering of major players in the energy sector; CEOs, government officials, and financiers are among the conferenc...

The War Over Ukrainian History and Identity from 2022-03-05T10:20:45

“Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us,” declared Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. “It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space.” This concep...

Murderville, TX: Episode 2, The Cops from 2022-02-25T11:00

Crime is surging in Houston, and homicide detectives are given free rein as they race to close cases. Investigators are certain that Charles Raby is guilty of Edna Franklin’s murder — and that D...

The Case for Expanding Social Security from 2022-02-19T10:01:01

The proposed Social Security 2100 Act would bolster the nearly century-old social insurance program through additions like caregiver credits and increased minimum benefits. Connecticut Rep. John...

Gas Price Politics And Genocide Collide In Yemen from 2022-02-11T10:25:11

In the waning hours of his presidency, Donald Trump issued an order designating the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist organization; one of Joe Biden’s first actions upon taking office was to rever...

Dignity in a Digital Age, With Ro Khanna from 2022-02-02T10:00:35

In his new book, congressman Ro Khanna tackles the question of how the prosperity generated by technology can be more broadly shared. In the foreword, Indian economist Amartya Sen writes “just a...

Introducing Murderville, Texas from 2022-02-01T12:00:14

Murderville, an investigative podcast hosted by senior Intercept reporters Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith, examines the systemic failures that lead to wrongful convictions. Season Two takes Segura...

Haiti, Smedley Butler, and the Rise of American Empire from 2022-01-22T10:00:09

“I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism." So declared famed Marine Corps officer Smedley Butler in 1935, at the end of a long career spent blazing a path for American interests in Cuba, Nicar...

Is Biden in the Midst of a World Historic Crime Against Humanity? from 2022-01-15T10:00:33

The normally reserved International Committee of the Red Cross recently made a surprisingly direct statement about the unfolding economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. They said, “Can ...

The Life and Legacy of Harry Reid from 2022-01-08T04:56:17

Former senate majority leader Harry Reid died on December 28th at the age of 82. Reid, who was born into extreme poverty in Nevada in 1939, rose to become one of the most influential politicians...

A New Way To Think About Medicare from 2021-12-18T10:14:56

Introduced during the Trump administration, “direct contracting” is a Medicare payment model that allows private medical practices and insurance companies to arrange set payments from Medicare f...

Congress Caves To Saudi Arabia On Yemen War from 2021-12-10T10:00

This week the senate voted down a resolution that would have blocked a defensive weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The measure attracted support from senators of both parties for its potential to pr...

Greening Red America: Breaking Down Build Back Better’s Climate Ag Policy from 2021-12-03T10:00

The Build Back Better Act is one of the biggest and most complicated pieces of spending legislation in American history. If it becomes law, it will be (among other things) the biggest investment...

A Giving Tuesday Message from 2021-11-30T18:41:02

Head to theintercept.com/give to donate today.

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On Sunday, a former Facebook data scientist went on 60 Minutes to accuse the company of defrauding its advertising customers and deliberately engineering social division and ethnic strife. Then ...

Hold the Line: The Progressive Caucus Makes Its Stand from 2021-10-02T10:00:41

This week, progressives in the House of Representatives were able to stall an effort by the centrist dark money group No Labels to separate the infrastructure portion of President Biden’s reconc...

Nina Turner on Her Loss and Future from 2021-09-24T13:00:51

In December, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge was nominated to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development by president-elect Biden. Former Ohio state senator and surrogate for both the 2016 ...

Tax the Rich from 2021-09-17T21:48:03

The next few weeks will be crucial for the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation package, which is central to Joe Biden’s agenda. Pennsylvania congressman Brendan Boyle of the House Ways and M...

King Manchin from 2021-09-10T18:23:13

It’s become a familiar pattern for West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin: first, announce your opposition to a Biden legislative priority. Second, extract some concessions on the theory that this will ...

Line 3 and a Week of Climate Catastrophe from 2021-09-04T14:59:10

More than 45 dead after remnants of Hurricane Ida slammed the Northeast. In Louisiana, where the hurricane hit days before, hundreds of thousands remain without electricity. Meanwhile, massive fire...

Andrew Quilty and Ilhan Omar on Afghanistan from 2021-08-28T19:55:02

A suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul on Thursday struck crowds that had gathered in hope of escaping the country. ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based offshoot of the Islamic State, claimed r...

Anand Gopal And Richard Ojeda On Afghanistan from 2021-08-21T10:00

A media consensus has quickly emerged around the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, and it goes like this: whatever its merits in the abstract, in its execution the whole thing has been...

The Era of Climate Denial is Over from 2021-08-13T10:00

This week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, released the first part of its latest report on the state of the Earth’s climate. It details with greater certainty than ever befor...

Cori Bush on the Shame and Power of Poverty from 2021-08-06T10:00

Last week, congress failed to pass an extension to the COVID-19 eviction moratorium. In response several members of the house, including congresswomen Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, camped...

The Coup That Wasn't from 2021-07-23T10:00

The assasination earlier this month of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse is raising new questions about the threat posed by international mercenaries. It also casts a new light on Listen

Introducing American Isis from 2021-07-19T10:00:22

We'd like to introduce you to American ISIS, a new podcast from The Intercept and Topic Studios. American ISIS offers the most detailed account yet of an American who lived and died inside the Isla...

Antitrust Makes a Comeback from 2021-07-16T10:00

Last Friday President Biden announced a sweeping executive order aimed at ending what he called a 40-year “experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate more and more power.” Attorney and law...

How “The People’s Mayor” Saved Public Power from 2021-07-02T10:00

25 years before he first ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio — at the time, that made him the youngest mayor of a major ...

Chelsea Manning Meets Ken Klippenstein from 2021-06-25T10:00:41

Since leaving prison in 2017, former intelligence analyst and whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been busy. She ran unsuccessfully for senate in her home state of Maryland, became a Twitch streamer,...

Joe Manchin Gets Candid With Billionaire Donors in Leaked Audio from 2021-06-16T16:10:46

The Intercept's Lee Fang obtained audio of the powerful West Virginia senator on a call with the centrist political group No Labels.

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Banishing the Ghosts of the Great Recession from 2021-06-11T10:00

For decades, economic policymakers have viewed full employment as a scourge to be avoided at all costs, betokening as it does the grim spectre of inflation. If his words are to be believed, Joe Bid...

Race and Taxes from 2021-06-04T10:00:03

As part of his “Build Back Better” plan, President Biden has promised to “advance racial equity across the American economy.” In her new book, “The Whiteness of Wealth,” Emory law professor Dorothy...

Losing the Asymmetric War from 2021-05-28T10:00

Republicans in Arizona are hoping to overturn their state’s presidential election result, creating a template that they can apply in Georgia, Wisconsin, and beyond. Meanwhile Mitch McConnell (to no...

Life and Death in Occupied Palestine from 2021-05-21T10:00

On May 7, Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem during the evening prayer. Hamas responded a few days later by launching rockets from Gaza into Israel. Israel retaliated wit...

The System That Killed Berta Cáceres from 2021-05-14T19:56:50

When Berta Cáceres was murdered in 2016, she was the leading environmental activist in Honduras and, arguably, the world. A member of the indigenous Lenca people and the founder of the Council of P...

The Deconstructed May Day Special from 2021-05-07T16:26:44

May Day is the biggest day of the year for the international labour movement, but it passes almost unmentioned each year in the United States. That’s in spite of the fact that the holiday commemora...

Matt Bruenig on Joe Biden's American Families Plan from 2021-04-29T16:35:46

On Wednesday night, Joe Biden gave his first presidential address to a joint session of Congress, though it was sparsely attended so that social distancing could be observed. Biden was th...

The Whistleblower Trying to Stop the Next Financial Crisis from 2021-04-23T10:00:09

If you were reading the news back in 2008, then you probably remember how residential mortgage backed securities fuelled by subprime mortgages tanked the global economy. Well now John Flynn, a vete...

The New Mexico Spring from 2021-04-16T10:00

When Michelle Lujan Grisham defeated Eric Griego in the race for New Mexico’s 1st congressional district in 2012, it put the left wing of the state’s Democratic Party on the backfoot. 9 years later...

A Big New Idea to End the Border Crisis from 2021-04-08T00:10:02

Earlier this week Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware led a congressional delegation to a Texas immigration detention facility housing children who arrived unaccompanied at the border. Also on the trip was...

From Coyotes to Coffin Ships: Joe Biden and the Border from 2021-04-03T10:00

If Joe Biden is looking for inspiration on immigration policy, he might look to a speech he gave in 2013 when he was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame. The then-Vice President talked of ...

Daniel Ellsberg on Biden and Whistleblowers from 2021-03-26T10:00:34

In his first press conference as president, Joe Biden decided not to address his decision to continue to seek the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the United Kingdom. The outcom...

Medicare for All Just Got a Massive Boost from 2021-03-19T10:00

This week New Jersey congressman Frank Pallone, the chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, gave the legislative push for single-payer healthcare a major boost by announcing that he...

Bernie Backers Took Over the Nevada Democratic Party. The Old Guard Walked Out. from 2021-03-09T01:21:31

On Saturday, a year after Bernie Sanders won the Nevada caucuses, a slate of progressive candidates swept elections for leadership positions in the state Party. Ryan Grim talks to activist Keenan K...

What's Really in the Covid Relief Bill? from 2021-03-05T11:00

This week the House of Representatives passed a $1.9 trillion Covid relief package by a 220-210 vote. It now moves to the Senate, where it will have to make it past a Republican filibuster. Huffpos...

France and the Myth of the Color-Blind Society from 2021-02-26T11:00

After a series of high-profile terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in France, the country finds itself in a heated debate over some of its most cherished values: laïcité, or secularism, and the...

Texas Republicans Ran a Twenty-Year Experiment. The Results Are In. from 2021-02-19T11:00:31

In the early 2000s, after gaining control of the Texas House of Representatives for the first time in modern history, Republicans undertook a gerrymandering scheme that solidified their control of ...

Let’s End the War in Yemen from 2021-02-12T11:00

In his first significant foreign policy announcement since taking office, President Biden broke with both former presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama and declared an end to U.S. support for the...

Filibuster or Bust from 2021-02-05T18:41:21

If President Joe Biden is going to be able to pass any part of his agenda, he'll need to get it past the Senate filibuster. That's likely impossible given the chamber's 50-50 split. Is it time to f...

Could the For the People Act Save American Democracy? from 2021-02-01T09:26:36

H.R.1, also known as the For The People Act, is a sweeping reform bill that aims to make voting easier, gerrymandering harder, and to generally rein in the out-of-control minoritarianism that has c...

What’s the Path Forward for Medicare for All? from 2021-01-29T17:36:30

In February, House Democrats will be re-introducing legislation to create a universal, single-payer healthcare system in the United States. Leading the effort will be Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washin...

A Reckoning Over Homophobia in the Democratic Party from 2021-01-22T18:05:58

On January 13th, the Cambridge Democratic City Committee met to discuss a resolution calling for the resignation of Massachusetts state party chair Gus Bickford. The resolution was an attempt to re...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Her Escape From the Capitol Riot from 2021-01-15T14:00:18

When a mob attacked the Capitol building on January 6th in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Chair of the Congressional Progressive Cau...

Inside the Insurrection from 2021-01-07T07:17:54

On Wednesday afternoon supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building, overwhelming police and forcing the representatives inside into hiding just as they prepared to certify Joe...

Could Trump Still Try to Attack Iran? from 2021-01-05T21:45:29

One year ago, the U.S. government assassinated Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani by drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport. Is it possible that Donald Trump, now entering the final...

Puerto Ricans Voted for Statehood (Again). What Happens Now? from 2020-12-18T21:48:10

On election day last month, 52% of Puerto Rican voters answered “yes” to the following question: Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State? But the result of the non-bind...

Inside Biden's Meeting With Civil Rights Leaders from 2020-12-10T11:20:45

On Tuesday Joe Biden held a zoom call with civil rights leaders from across the country to discuss matters of policy and his cabinet selections. The call was private, but Deconstructed obtained the...

A Political History of Georgia from 2020-12-04T19:52:10

With runoff elections in Georgia next month poised to determine control of the US Senate, national media have turned their eyes south. To help you digest the coming avalanche of Georgia coverage, R...

What Can Biden Do Without the Senate? from 2020-11-20T19:31:02

Come 2021 the Democrats are likely to find themselves in control of the Presidency and the House but not the Senate — meaning Mitch McConnell will be in a position to block any ambitious legis...

Populism Versus the Consulting Class from 2020-11-13T11:00

The circular firing squad over the Democrats’ underperformance in congressional races has already begun. Party leaders are blaming “the squad” and other left-wing figures for their talk of “defundi...

What Happened? from 2020-11-06T11:00:30

November 3rd, 2020 was supposed to be the Democrats’ moment of glory: polls predicted a comfortable victory for former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as gains in both the House and Senate. Inste...

The Rise of the Radical Moms from 2020-10-30T10:00

Women across the U.S. found themselves suddenly drawn to politics after the shock election of Donald Trump four years ago. On this week’s podcast, Ryan Grim speaks to three such women: Candace Vale...

The Final Debate from 2020-10-23T09:43:13

Donald Trump and Joe Biden met for their final debate before the 2020 election on Thursday night. Trump continued his recent attacks on Biden’s son Hunter and his foreign business dealings, while B...

Amy Coney Barrett and the Looming Google Antitrust Case from 2020-10-17T10:00:23

Republicans appear set to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Ryan Grim talks to Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America about the last 50 years of right-wing legal activism. Then Luthe...

In Eric Branstad, The Trump Administration Has Its Own Hunter Biden Problem from 2020-10-16T19:49:56

When President Trump abruptly reversed an order penalizing the Chinese telecom company ZTE for selling to North Korea and Iran in 2018, it confused almost everyone. Why was the get-tough-on-China-p...

A Look at the 2020 Congressional Landscape from 2020-10-09T16:36:09

Wordpress entry text: A Georgia senator compares herself to Attila the Hun. An Alaska senate challenger brags about fighting a bear. While the president’s Covid diagnosis has domin...

A Goodbye Message from Mehdi from 2020-10-02T15:52:49

A special message from Deconstructed host Mehdi Hasan. Mehdi talks to Intercept DC Bureau Chief Ryan Grim about where he's headed and what's next for the podcast.

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What Do We Do if Trump Won’t Go? from 2020-09-25T14:50:59

Fears are growing, stoked by the president’s own comments, that he will refuse to peacefully leave office should he lose the election in November. How concerned should we be, and what can we do to ...

Do Democrats Risk Repeating the Mistakes of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Covid-19? from 2020-09-17T10:00:03

As the US economy was spiralling out of control in 2008 and 2009, economist James Galbraith predicted that an insufficiently large stimulus would lead to a prolonged recession. He was right, and to...

The Political Revolution Comes to the Statehouse from 2020-09-11T10:00:24

Progressive candidates won big in this week’s Rhode Island primaries, thanks in large part to an array of left-wing organising groups that have sprung up there in the last few years to promote cand...

Markey Won. Morse Lost. What Happens Next? from 2020-09-03T19:22:49

This week all eyes were on a pair of hard-fought Democratic primaries in Massachusetts. Senator Ed Markey staved off a primary challenge from Joe Kennedy III, while the progressive mayor of Holyoke...

Is QAnon the Future of the Republican Party? from 2020-08-28T10:00

QAnon is a far-ranging conspiracy theory that alleges, among other things, that a patriotic Trump supporter (or supporters) embedded in the highest levels of the U.S. government has been using inte...

Democratic Convention Special: Do Biden and Harris Have What It Takes to Beat Trump? from 2020-08-21T10:00

This week, The Democrats broadcast their nominating convention from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic it was a largely virtual affair, with generally well-reviewed speeches...

The Trump Child Abuse Scandal from 2020-07-09T10:00

It’s been two years since the peak of public outcry over the Trump administration’s decision to begin separating the children of unauthorized migrant families from their parents. Yet the massive cr...

Can We Build a Politics of Hope? from 2020-07-02T10:00

Deep down, are humans really selfish, brutal, and cruel? For much of the last century the most famous experiments in social science, from the Stanford prison experiment to the Stanley Milgram el...

The Rise of the Left (with Mondaire Jones) from 2020-06-25T10:00

This week’s Democratic primaries in Kentucky, New York, and Virginia saw a number of progressive challengers defeating moderate or establishment rivals. Of particular note were the victories of two...

Let’s Defund The Military, Too from 2020-06-18T07:10

The United States has by far the world’s largest military budget, accounting for 15% of all federal spending, and nearly half of all discretionary spending. Presidents of both parties have repeated...

Is It Time To Defund the Police? from 2020-06-11T17:00

In the wake of global protests over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a movement to redirect public resources away from traditional policing and towards community-oriente...

Is This Trump’s Reichstag Fire Moment? from 2020-06-04T17:00

President Trump has seized on the nationwide protest movement that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer to advance his most authoritarian political instin...

One Hundred Thousand Dead From The Coronavirus. What Happens Next? from 2020-05-28T10:00

The U.S. passed a tragic milestone this week, becoming the first country in the world to record 100,000 deaths from Covid-19. Is there an end in sight? Is this the new normal? Yale epidemiologist G...

Is Bill Barr the Most Dangerous Member of the Trump Administration? from 2020-05-21T10:00

Attorney General William Barr has emerged as the shrewdest and most effective member of the Trump administration, weaponizing the Department of Justice to protect the president and his allies while...

Is Elon Musk a Fraud? from 2020-05-14T10:00

Over the weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to voice his frustrations about the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown in Alameda County, California. The billionaire entrepreneur threatened that he...

Are Trump and the Anti-Lockdown Militias Itching For Violence? from 2020-05-07T10:00

Protests have broken out in and around several state capitols, with demonstrators, among them armed right-wing militia members, attempting to pressure their state governments to end the Covid-19...

Joe Biden Thinks We Should Believe Women—Just Not Tara Reade from 2020-04-30T10:00

In March, former Joe Biden staffer Tara Reade went public with the explosive allegation that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had sexually assaulted her in 1993. Since then, De...

Has The Coronavirus Made The Ultimate Case For Medicare For All? from 2020-04-23T10:00

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed gaping holes in the United States’ medical system, and the lack of access to tests and treatment has many wondering if fundamental reforms to the system might b...

The Media Helped Elect Trump in 2016. Are they Doing it Again? from 2020-04-16T10:00

The president’s nightly Coronavirus Task Force briefings are increasingly coming to resemble campaign rallies without the crowds: excuses for Trump to showboat in front of TV cameras, praise his...

Is Donald Trump Criminally Responsible for Coronavirus Deaths? from 2020-04-02T10:00

Deaths from Covid-19 continued to mount this week as the U.S. surpassed 200,000 confirmed cases, more than any other country in the world. Experts increasingly point to President Trump’s willful ne...

Introducing Somebody from 2020-03-30T10:00

Reporter Alison Flowers attempts to discover the truth about the shooting death of a young man on Chicago’s south side in 2016, teaming up with the young man’s mother, Shapearl Wells, who launched ...

Is the Trump Cult a Death Cult? from 2020-03-25T21:43:50

This week President Trump began asserting that the United States would once again be “open for business” by Easter, on April 12th. He provided no scientific or medical justification for that timeli...

How to Save the U.S. Economy, With AOC and Stephanie Kelton from 2020-03-20T19:31

Border Closures. Economic meltdown. Skyrocketing unemployment claims. Every day brings new news of the COVID-19 pandemic’s unprecedented impact on American life. Will the federal government find th...

Bernie Versus Biden: Who Won the Debate? from 2020-03-16T10:00

The 11th Democratic primary debate on Sunday was an unusual one. It was a one-on-one encounter between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, held without an audience in Washington D.C. due to mounting fear...

Capitalism Versus Coronavirus from 2020-03-12T10:00

From just a handful of cases a few weeks ago, the COVID-19 outbreak in the US has ballooned to over a thousand cases nationwide. The Trump administration’s public response has ranged from incoheren...

Can Biden Still Be Stopped? from 2020-03-04T23:39:26

It’s being described as one of the biggest turnarounds in presidential primary history. After disappointing results in Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada, Joe Biden appeared to be fading in Bernie San...

Debate Special: The One Where Everyone Attacks Bernie from 2020-02-26T11:00

With victories in New Hampshire and Nevada and a firm lead in the national polls, Bernie Sanders is now unquestionably the frontrunner in the Democratic race. On Tuesday night the top contenders...

How Bloomberg Blew it In Las Vegas from 2020-02-20T11:00

On Wednesday night, 6 of the remaining Democratic candidates faced off in Las Vegas ahead of the Nevada caucuses. All eyes were on former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who, despite sitting o...

Live from L.A. with John Legend and Patrisse Cullors from 2020-02-13T11:00

The United States has the biggest prison population of any country on the planet. The crime rate is down, but the incarceration rate continues to soar. With the 2020 presidential election around...

Rigged: The Acquittal of Donald J Trump from 2020-02-06T01:58

As predicted, the Republican-controlled Senate voted on Wednesday to find President Donald J. Trump not guilty on both articles of impeachment brought by the House of Representatives. It was a part...

Does Joe Biden Have a Corruption Problem? from 2020-01-30T11:00

On January 20th, The Guardian published an op-ed by New York attorney and law professor Zephyr Teachout entitled Listen

Why is Billionaire Tom Steyer Running for President? from 2020-01-23T11:00

With the Iowa caucuses less than two weeks away, the Democratic primary increasingly seems like a two-way contest between former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The lat...

Truth, Lies, and the Democratic Debate from 2020-01-15T11:00

Six of the remaining Democratic candidates met in Des Moines, Iowa on Tuesday night for their final debate before the state holds its first-in-the-nation caucuses on February 3rd. With the state of...

Why Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims? from 2019-12-29T11:00

It’s been described as the worst human rights crisis in the world — the arbitrary detention in sprawling camps of a million or more Uighur Muslims in China’s northwestern Xinjiang province. The Chi...

Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment from 2019-12-05T11:00

The House Judiciary Committee held its first impeachment hearing on Wednesday, with testimony from a quartet of legal scholars from major Universities. Republicans on the committee repeatedly attem...

It's Giving Tuesday! from 2019-12-03T11:00

If you're one of the many listeners who enjoys Deconstructed every week, we have a special favor to ask you. Today is Giving Tuesday - a day to celebrate and support the causes and organizations yo...

Who Won Last Night’s Democratic Debate? from 2019-11-21T11:00

In the days leading up to the November Democratic debate in Atlanta, everyone seemed to agree that attacks on Pete Buttigieg would be the order of the night. The South Bend Mayor had lept to the to...

Does Liberal Canada Have a Dark Side? from 2019-11-14T11:00

Liberals across the West often imagine Canada as a progressive paradise — a tolerant land, welcoming to immigrants, where marijuana is legal and everyone gets free healthcare. But how accurate is t...

The Bernie Sanders Interview from 2019-11-07T11:00

With three months to go until the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders finds himself fighting to make headway against the other frontrunners in the Democratic primary. While he appears to have bounced bac...

Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview from 2019-10-31T10:00

Linguist, activist, and political theorist Noam Chomsky has been speaking out against U.S. interventionism from Vietnam to Latin America and the Middle East since the 1960s. He’s the most cited aut...

How to Resist: Live with Ilhan Omar and Michael Moore from 2019-10-24T10:00

In a live taping of The Intercept’s Deconstructed podcast, host Mehdi Hasan is joined by two of America’s leading progressive voices: first-term Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the first Somali...

Is It Time for Democrats to Fight Dirty? from 2019-10-17T10:00

The twelve leading Democratic candidates met in Westerville, Ohio on Tuesday for the fourth debate of the 2020 primary season. The usual topics—healthcare, taxes, the impeachment inquiry—dominated ...

Beto O’Rourke to Democrats: Go Big On Impeachment from 2019-10-10T10:00

Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke became the Democratic Party’s golden boy in 2018 thanks to his near-miss campaign against Senator Ted Cruz. Yet since declaring his campaign for the presidency back ...

The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism from 2019-10-03T10:00

India’s clampdown on the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir is entering its third month, and while the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exerted tight control over the flow...

Finally, Impeachment: Julián Castro on Trump and Ukraine from 2019-09-26T10:00

It finally happened: on Tuesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the beginning of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. The final straw was a July phone call in w...

Israel: Democracy or Apartheid? from 2019-09-19T10:00

Israeli voters returned to the polls this week for the second time in five months to elect the 120 members of the Knesset, the country’s legislative body. The outcome remains too close to call, but...

Democratic Debate: Is Joe Biden OK? from 2019-09-13T10:00

The Democratic candidates met in Houston on Thursday night for a third round of televised debates. This time the format was limited to a single night with 10 participants, which meant that for the ...

Who Won the First Democratic Debates? from 2019-06-28T10:00

A whopping 20 Democratic presidential candidates met in Miami, Florida this week for the first in what promises to be a very long season of primary debates. Pre-debate buzz centered around frontrun...

Iran Crisis: Have We Learned Nothing from The Iraq War? from 2019-06-20T10:00

Calls for military action against Iran grew louder this week in response to the Trump Administration’s claims that the Islamic Republic was responsible for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oma...

Why Won't the Democratic Candidates Move to the Left on Foreign Policy? from 2019-06-13T10:00

The Democratic candidates have introduced a raft of radical progressive proposals on the domestic policy front, from Medicare for All to free public college to universal basic income. Yet that appe...

Why is Andrew Yang Running for President? from 2019-06-06T10:00

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a 44-year-old former businessman and philanthropist, has garnered a devoted fanbase (dubbed the “Yang Gang”) for his unique raft of progressive and te...

Brexit and the Rise of the British Trumps from 2019-05-30T10:00

This week’s EU Parliament elections sent political shockwaves across Europe, with far-right nationalist parties racking up major victories in France, Italy, and even the UK. Established parties in ...

Joe Biden Would Be a Disaster from 2019-05-23T10:00

Former Vice President Joe Biden has jumped to a surprisingly large lead in the Democratic race. But in an era when Democrats are increasingly young, racially diverse, and socialist-leaning, are the...

Will John Bolton Finally Get His War With Iran? from 2019-05-16T10:00

U.S. officials this week accused Iran of orchestrating “sabotage” attacks on Saudi tankers near the Persian Gulf, escalating an already tense situation between the two countries. President Trump ra...

Is Trump a Fascist? from 2019-05-09T10:00

The F-word gets thrown around a lot these days. But with the president fear-mongering about immigrants, turning a blind eye to political violence from the far right, and embracing white nationalism...

The Case For (and Against) Impeaching Trump from 2019-05-02T10:00

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election didn’t provide the smoking gun on collusion with Russia that many were expecting, but it did paint a picture of ...

The Case Against AIPAC from 2019-03-28T10:00

This week AIPAC came to town for its annual policy conference in the capital, with speakers including Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Israeli Prime Minister Benj...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Trump, Islamophobia, and His Presidential Bid from 2019-03-21T10:00

Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is not a traditional candidate for the nation’s highest office. But recently, he’s turned heads with a slate of radical political reform proposals, inc...

Erik Prince, Perjury, and the Secret Trump Tower Meeting from 2019-03-14T10:00

Erik Prince, the founder and CEO of the world’s most notorious mercenary company, Blackwater, landed in hot water during an interview with Mehdi Hasan at the Oxford Union in the U.K. Prince repeate...

Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism from 2019-03-07T11:00

Many have attributed Bernie Sanders’ loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries to a poor showing among black voters. Bernie has since worked hard to make inroads there, incorporating theme raci...

Ilhan Omar Speaks Out On Her Twitter Scandal, Anti-Semitism, and a Progressive Foreign Policy from 2019-02-28T11:00

Earlier this month, Rep. Ilhan Omar, freshman House Democrat and one of the first two Muslim American women ever elected to Congress, found herself mired in controversy over tweets about the Americ...

Why Won’t the Media Discuss Trump’s Mental Instability? from 2019-02-21T11:00

Donald Trump’s rose garden speech last week announcing his emergency declaration over the “crisis” at the southern border was rambling, incoherent, and unhinged: in short, everything we’ve come to ...

The Truth About Islam and Democracy from 2019-02-14T11:00

Hundreds of millions of Muslims the world over live in democracies of some shape or form, yet a narrative persists in the West that Islam and democracy are incompatible. On this week’s show, Mehdi ...

Who’s Really Afraid of Socialism? from 2019-02-07T11:00

“Tonight,” proclaimed Donald Trump in his State of the Union Address, “we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” The line received a standing ovation from Republicans an...

Is It Time For Kamala Harris To Reckon With Her Right-Wing Past? from 2019-01-31T11:00

Since getting elected to the senate, Kamala Harris has become one of the most progressive voices in the chamber, supporting Medicare for All and debt-free college. However, as California attorney g...

Intercept Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from 2019-01-28T22:01:17

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins Intercept reporters Ryan Grim and Briahna Joy Gray for an in-depth conversation about her approach to politics and social media, her thoughts on 2020, and her out-of-...

What You Can't Say About Israel (with Marc Lamont Hill) from 2019-01-24T11:00

There are signs that U.S. opinion might be shifting on Israel and its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories. But the defenders of the Israeli government aren’t going to just give up wit...

When Do We “Impeach the Motherf*cker”? (with Rashida Tlaib) from 2019-01-17T11:00

In the wake of the 2018 midterms, the Democratic party in congress is looking a lot more diverse—not just in terms of gender and ethnicity, but in ideology as well. One prominent newcomer is Congre...

Introducing Murderville from 2018-12-13T15:34:59

Introducing Murderville, a new investigative podcast from The Intercept.  Episode 1: Murder at Taco Bell. A murder in the small southern town of Adel, Georgia, sent Devonia Inman to jail 20 year...

Is This the Democrat Who Can Beat Trump in the Rust Belt in 2020? from 2018-12-06T11:00

The presidential primary season kicks off next year and there is one big question hanging over the Democratic party: the rust belt. For the last quarter century, it was solid blue, but Donald Trump...

George H.W. Bush: The Inconvenient Truth from 2018-12-04T11:00

U.S. media have been busy painting a very rosy picture of former president George H.W. Bush since his death last week. While he did stand up to the gun lobby, sign the Americans with Disabilities A...

The Senate Just Took a Major Step Toward Ending the War In Yemen from 2018-11-29T11:00

The United States Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to advance a resolution withdrawing all unauthorized U.S. military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which has created, according to the UN,...

Trump’s Top Ten Lies and Why They Matter (with Daniel Dale) from 2018-11-21T20:00

Donald Trump lies consistently, at all times of day. He even gets up in the middle of the night to tweet, and that tweet almost always turns out to be a lie. A lie is produced each time his lips mo...

Why the Democrats Can (and Should) Impeach Trump from 2018-11-15T11:01

Impeaching President Donald Trump is a pipe dream, many say. Nancy Pelosi, who’s expected to be the new House speaker, isn’t keen on going for impeachment, nor is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schum...

Midterms Special: Who Won, Who Lost, and What Happens Next? from 2018-11-07T11:01

The most important, historic, and consequential midterm election of our lives is over. It wasn’t quite a blue wave, but the Democrats, while unable to win the Senate, did, as predicted, take back c...

Race or Class: What Will Drive Trump Voters in the Midterms? from 2018-11-01T10:00

The midterm elections are almost here and they’re haunted by the spectre of loyal Trump voters. Two years ago, white, working class voters swept Donald Trump into office as a way of expressing thei...

Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.? from 2018-10-29T21:37

Over the past few days, 11 people were massacred in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, the country’s top Democrats have been targeted with pipe bombs, and two black people were executed in a grocery store ...

From Caravans to Cages: Why Trump Bashes Migrants from 2018-10-25T10:00

If the media is to be believed, the United States is about to be overrun by a horde of terrorists and criminals from Central America. It’s a distraction from what has really been an immigration cri...

Why Won't Trump Condemn the Saudis? (Hint: It's Israel. Also, Iran) from 2018-10-18T10:00

The United States and Saudi Arabia have been best friends since 1945, even after 9/11, when 15 of the 19 hijackers who brought down the Twin Towers turned out to be Saudi nationals. Their alliance ...

Live Special: Are the Democrats Ready to Get Radical? from 2018-10-11T18:31

In this special, live-recorded episode of Deconstructed, Mehdi Hasan is joined by a panel of leftist lawmakers and advocates, Sen. Jeff Merkley, California Congressman Ro Khanna, CNN political comm...

The Right Won the Battle Over Kavanaugh. Can the Left Win the War? from 2018-10-06T21:07

Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed today as Supreme Court Justice of the United States in a 50-48 vote in the Senate, despite three different allegations of sexual assault and misconduct and wide o...

Riz Ahmed on Politics, Identity, and Being Brown in Hollywood from 2018-10-04T10:00

Riz Ahmed became the first actor of South Asian descent and the first Muslim to win an Emmy last year when he picked up the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in A Limited Series for his sta...

What The Kavanaugh Scandal Says About America from 2018-09-27T01:40:52

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault by three different women, one of whom said that she witnessed his efforts to inebriate girls so they could be “gang raped.” ...

Is Ilhan Omar Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare? from 2018-09-20T10:00

After decisively beating five other candidates in last month’s primary race to represent Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional district, Ilhan Omar is on her way to becoming the first African refugee and...

Why is America Helping to Kill Kids in Yemen? from 2018-09-13T10:01

Since a Saudi-led coalition began bombarding Yemen in March 2015, more than 10,000 people have been killed and over 2 million displaced. While most U.S. politicians would prefer to pretend otherwis...

The White Supremacy Court Upholds the Muslim Ban from 2018-06-26T23:47

On Tuesday the Supreme Court handed the president a huge victory in Trump v. Hawaii, the case challenging the legality of his executive order barring citizens of five Muslim-majority count...

Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy from 2018-06-22T10:00

Barack Obama was one of the most polarizing presidents of the modern era. To the right, he was a weak, feckless leader and to the left, he was the Deporter in Chief and Drone President who bombed v...

Will the U.S. Ever Give Up Its Nukes? from 2018-06-15T10:00

This week Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to meet with a North Korean head of state, raising the prospect that the repressive dictatorship might finally take steps toward dismantling i...

Elizabeth Warren v. the District of Corruption from 2018-06-08T10:00

Between appointing his daughter and son-in-law to senior White House positions, engaging in business deals with foreign governments, and “encouraging” diplomats and dignitaries to book rooms in his...

The War on Immigrants from 2018-06-01T10:00

The Trump administration is targeting migrant and refugee children to achieve its policy goal at the border, crack down on immigration, and placate its far right base. More than 700 children have b...

Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook from 2018-05-25T10:00

Five years ago this week Edward Snowden absconded to Hong Kong with a trove of documents detailing the extent of the U.S. government's global and domestic surveillance programs. Snowden’s leaks hel...

How The Trumps Screwed Palestine from 2018-05-18T10:00

Two Palestinians join Mehdi Hasan to discuss U.S. coverage of Jerusalem and how to get prominent Democratic politicians to take the Palestinian struggle for freedom seriously. Rula Jebreal was rais...

Is Trump Trying to Start a War with Iran? from 2018-05-11T10:00

The president announced withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, citing Israeli intel purporting to show that Iran has resumed its nuclear weapons program. Does this move us one step close...

Will the Media Ever Stand Up to Trump? (with Judd Apatow) from 2018-05-04T10:00

Comedian and Hollywood director and producer Judd Apatow joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the U.S. media’s cozy relationship with politicians. Rather than defending Michelle Wolf as she ridiculed the b...

The Killing Fields of Gaza from 2018-04-27T10:00

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are demonstrating and calling for their right to return to their ancestral lands for the fifth Friday in a row. Israeli forces have been responding with force, killin...

How Bad Is The News? (With Hasan Minhaj) from 2018-04-20T10:00

Comedian Hasan Minhaj is best known for his work as a correspondent on The Daily Show and his acclaimed stand-up special "Homecoming King." This year he’s slated to host his own talk show on Netfli...

Is Trump About To Start An Illegal War With Syria? from 2018-04-13T10:00

The war in Syria has seen seven long years of bloodshed, terror, and foreign interventions. And now, once again, the alleged use of chemical weapons has prompted president Donald Trump to threaten ...

Why Black Lives Still Don't Matter from 2018-04-06T10:00

In her first national interview, Stephon Clark’s fiancée Salena Manni speaks out on his death at the hands of Sacramento police. She calls on President Donald Trump to take action on police violenc...

Will John Bolton Get Us All Killed? from 2018-03-30T10:00

By now you’ve heard about John Bolton’s bluster, warmongering, and disregard for international law. What you probably don’t know is that Trump’s new national security advisor made implicit threats ...

We Need to Talk About Inequality (with Bernie Sanders) from 2018-03-23T10:00

The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan sits down with independent senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to discuss why the mainstream press ignores so many of the economic issues that affec...

Coming Soon: Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan from 2018-03-01T17:09

A new podcast from The Intercept that cuts through the political drivel and media misinformation to give you a straight take on one big news story of the week. Hosted by Mehdi Hasan. Coming March 2...