THE INTERCEPT

YESTERDAY

Pentagon: U. S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans

A new Pentagon report sheds light on AFRICOM’s disastrous counterterrorism campaigns.

AUGUST 4. 2025

Hunger in Gaza Can’t Be Explained Away by Preexisting Conditions

Outlets like the New York Times have downplayed the famine by pointing to underlying medical conditions. But these ailments only make the suffering worse.

Tennessee Is About to Execute Byron Black — Despite His Intellectual Disability

Decades after sending him to death row, Nashville prosecutors admitted he shouldn’t be executed. Tennessee plans to kill him anyway.

AUGUST 2. 2025

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents

Thanks to the Supreme Court and the Trump administration, student loan forgiveness is out of reach for many — unless you work for ICE.

AUGUST 1. 2025

American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel

Americans on the scene who tried to help Palestinians said Israel authorities detained, deported them — all as settler attackers roamed free.

Decades of Denial: Policing’s Past Haunts the Present

Rick Loessberg and Akela Lacy trace the trajectory of America’s unfinished reckoning with policing, from the 1967 Kerner Report to the George Floyd protests to Trump 2.0.

JULY 31. 2025

National Guard Ordered to Do ICE Paperwork at Immigration Facilities in 20 States

Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to immigration facilities further blurs the line between military and law enforcement.

U. S. Security Contractors in Gaza Risk War Crimes Charges, Democrats Say

Democrats said veterans working for U. S. security contractors on Trump’s Gaza aid effort may face legal risks.

Trump’s Gaza “Food Centers” Miss the Real Problem: Israel’s Aid Blockade

As with many of Trump’s proposals, it’s unclear how serious he is about his vague call for further U. S. involvement in Gaza food aid.

What to Do — And Not to Do — About a Judge Like Emil Bove

To confront a judge like Emil Bove so committed to Trump’s authoritarianism, we need to recognize the underlying problem.

JULY 30. 2025

The New York Times Repeated Israeli Claims of Hamas Stealing Aid Without Evidence

Israel’s main justification for its starvation of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

Will Gaza Ever Know a Real Ceasefire, or Just a Pause Before the Next Bomb?

What does hope mean when your city is flattened and everyone you know is slowly starving?

The Philippine Missile Crisis: U. S. Deployed Arms to the Philippines and No One Noticed But China

The U. S. deployment of missiles in the Philippines is an escalation that has angered China and could come back to bite Filipinos most of all.

JULY 29. 2025

Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans

A pending VA rule appears designed to strip crucial health care from hundreds of thousands of veterans in states with abortion bans.