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Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering news, incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl.
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- Hegseth Dodges Impeachment, for Now. And Tom Morello on Fighting for the World You Want · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 49Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth narrowly avoided impeachment on Tuesday, but his future is anything but secure as an enraged Democratic caucus prepares to take control of both…
- How Democrats Changed Everything · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 48The size of the Democrats’ victory Tuesday night shattered records and even the most optimistic expectations, handing the party a governing mandate with a clear demand for…
- How AIPAC and AI Spent Their Money This Midterm Election · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 47It’s a superlative achieved again and again: The current election cycle is the most expensive on record, according to AdImpact, likely to be surpassed only by the next one. North…
- Robert Reich and Akela Lacy Break Down the Most Pressing Issues of the Midterm Elections · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 46Democrats may be ahead in the polls. But can they withstand billions in campaign spending by Elon Musk and other MAGA oligarchs? Will the election be safe from intimidation and…
- The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 45Brazilians will head to the polls on Sunday in one of the most consequential presidential elections of the last decade. The run-off election will determine the future of the…
- DHS Was Designed as a Weapon · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 44A fresh wave of outrage over the Trump administration’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has surged after two high-profile events involving ICE in the span of a week…
- Prediction Markets Have a Lock on the Midterms · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 43As so-called prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket embed themselves in every aspect of our daily lives, from elections to sports and entertainment, concerns have grown…
- Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent” · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 42Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the U.S. government is still targeting pro-Palestine student activists. Even before federal immigration agents descended on…
- The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back Voters · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 41It’s the year of the democratic socialist. But the group that helped start the earthquake currently transforming the Democratic Party almost didn't make it to 2026. After…
- Apocalypse Now: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Investigate the End-Timers Alliance · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 40The fight over the future is rapidly unfolding before our eyes. With debates roiling Washington over calls to rein in artificial intelligence before it’s too late as the U.S…
- The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 39Local police departments use Flock cameras to track license plates. ICE uses Palantir software to track and round up immigrants. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war department…
- 25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 38RSVP for The Intercept and 404 Media Live Podcast, September 10 in LA: https://interc.pt/livepodcast Show Description: A quarter century after the September 11 attacks emboldened…
- Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 37The WNBA is having a moment. Viewership is up. Attendance for this year’s WNBA All-Star Game surpassed the NBA’s All-Star Game. Games and events can be viewed in a record number…
- What American Doctors Saw in Gaza · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 36It’s been nearly three years into Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians, and still no step closer to its end. Since the latest “ceasefire” began in October 2025, Israel has…
- Has the Left Really Met Its Limit? · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 35The stunning momentum of the insurgent left hit a roadblock this week when democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost her primary race for Wisconsin governor to Milwaukee…
- The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 34Over the course of Donald Trump's second term, Democratic voters have expressed dissatisfaction with their party over what many view as an inability to stand up to the president…
- Abdul El-Sayed on The Intercept Briefing · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 33On Tuesday, Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., will face off in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The race is the next biggest test of whether progressives can…
- Trump’s National Killer Police Force · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 32Within the span of a week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Maine and Texas, and another was hit by a truck and killed in Florida after trying to avoid…
- Trump’s Formula for Forever Wars · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 31President Donald Trump blew up the temporary ceasefire after the U.S. launched a series of airstrikes against Iran over the weekend. The two nations have continued to exchange…
- INTRODUCING: First America by Rebecca Nagle · 36 minThe Intercept Briefing is happy to share the first episode of journalist Rebecca Nagle's new podcast series, First America. Episode Description: We’ve all been told the American…
- Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 30Last spring, President Donald Trump issued the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, taking aim at federal parks, monuments, museums, and sites that…
- The People Who Stood By Graham Platner — Until He Was Accused of Rape · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 29The Democratic Party is once again in upheaval as Graham Platner, its unconventional nominee to knock out longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, faces a rape accusation…
- Trump’s Communist Boogeyman Playbook: Charging Protesters as Terrorists · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 28A noise demonstration that took place outside of the Prairieland Detention Facility in Texas one year ago has resulted in decades of prison time for the anti-ICE activists…
- The Democratic Party Gets Its Populist Takeover · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 27All three congressional candidates that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamadani endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday. The races were widely viewed as a test of just how much…
- The Performative Ceasefire in Gaza · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 26Over the last few years, the world has seen unspeakable violence, death, and devastation from Israel’s war on Gaza. During that time, global perception has shifted as the scale…
- The Right’s “Election Fraud” Cry for Midterms Previewed in Primaries · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 25On Tuesday night, oyster farmer and combat veteran Graham Platner overwhelmingly sailed to victory in the Democratic Senate primary in Maine. His opponent, Gov. Janet Mills…
- Warehousing Human Beings · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 24Join The Intercept Briefing podcast on Tuesday, June 16, at 5 pm ET (2 p.m. PT) for a live episode. Intercept journalist Jonah Valdez and Tariq Kenney-Shawa, an Al-Shabaka U.S…
- The Race to Build AI Data Centers — Before the People Can Protest · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 23Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary has been making the media rounds defending the 40,000-acre data center project he’s backing in northern Utah. Dismissing residents’ concerns over the…
- AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 22Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was decisively ousted on Tuesday night in his Kentucky primary, a win for President Donald Trump, who had launched an all-out attack on the…
- “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You” · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 21RSVP for The Intercept Briefing Podcast’s Live Conversation on Gaza. Sign up to join us on Tuesday, May 19, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT. Join The Intercept Briefing podcast for a…
- The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 20The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act, triggering a new wave of redistricting fights in the midst of midterm primary elections. Last week, the court…
- Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 19The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend became the site of the third failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. “I remember the feeling was very similar to…
- “Me Too” Comes Back To Congress · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 18It’s primary season, this time against a backdrop of heightened concerns and awareness of powerful figures skirting accountability for sexual abuse and misconduct. Survivors of…
- When Anti-War Candidates Become War-Monger Presidents · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 17Sen. Bernie Sanders forced a vote on Wednesday to block the sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. The resolutions failed mostly along party lines with a handful of defections…
- Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil” · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 16Vote here to help The Intercept Briefing win its first Webby Award for best news and politics podcast. Show description: As talks to end the U.S.–Israel war on Iran break down…
- Putting Fuel on a Ceasefire: Israel Tries to Kill U.S.–Iran Talks · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 15Vote here to help The Intercept Briefing win its first Webby Award for best news and politics podcast. Show description: Vice President JD Vance is set to lead renewed…
- Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 14Vote here to help The Intercept Briefing win its first Webby Award for best news and politics podcast. Show description: After more than a month into the U.S.–Israel conflict…
- Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 13Donald Trump’s second term has been broadly defined by an overwhelming sense of chaos. Every week the U.S. finds itself in a new crisis of the president’s making. The war in Iran…
- “Liberate Their Bodies From Their Souls”: The Lies That Sell the Iran War · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 12From the White House to Iran’s former crown prince, proponents of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran sell it to the American people — and Iranians themselves — as a crusade for…
- Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars · 47 min · Season 3 Episode 11In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after oil prices jumped and the growing regional conflict continued to shake…
- Trump’s War to Nowhere · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 10The Israel–U.S. military campaign in Iran has killed more than 1,000 people since the assault began on February 28. A war powers resolution in the Senate to curb President Donald…
- Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 9“The deliberate cruelty that they found humor in stood out to me,” says Jordan Uhl of Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening State of the Union. This week on the Intercept Briefing…
- What Does the Trump Administration Want With Cuba? · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 8Cuba is spiraling into a humanitarian crisis. The country’s long-standing economic and political turmoil reached new heights this week as the effects of the Trump…
- The Intercept Briefing Trailer · 1 minCut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering incisive political analysis…
- Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 7Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, defending the Justice Department’s widely criticized rollout of the Epstein files against…
- “Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 6The word “terrorist” wasn’t coined on September 11, 2001, but the defining event of the early 21st century ushered it in as the United States’ go-to term for demonizing outsiders…
- Even the Top Prosecutor in Minneapolis Doesn’t Know the Identity of the Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 5In the two months Minnesota has been under siege by federal agents, immigration officers have shot and killed two U.S. citizens, poet and artist Renee Good and ICU nurse Alex…
- Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 4The people of Iran are in the midst of one of the country’s biggest uprisings — and harshest government crackdowns — since the Iranian Revolution. It started with shopkeepers in…
- Trump’s War on America · 60 min · Season 3 Episode 3Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, in Minneapolis last week, unleashing a wave of anti-ICE protests…
- Greg Grandin on Trump’s “Universal Police Warrant” · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 2How long will the United States claim control over Venezuela? “Only time will tell,” President Donald Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday — potentially years. U.S. troops…
