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Publications

The Intercept

Target: Journalist

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

Ryan Gallagher, Johnny Dwyer The Intercept Apr 2018 15min Permalink

The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper

Novelist Brad Thor thought he had found his doomsday-prepping soulmate, but then the End Times went bad.

Sam Biddle The Intercept Jul 2021 50min Permalink

Business Politics Science

Corporate Counterinsurgency

Indigenous water protectors face off with an oil company and police over a Minnesota pipeline.

Alleen Brown The Intercept Jul 2021 25min Permalink

Tech World

India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech

Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists.

Naomi Klein The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink

Crime Politics

After Pork Giant Was Exposed for Cruel Killings, the FBI Pursued Its Critics

The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says.

Lee Fang The Intercept Feb 2021 15min Permalink

The CIA's Afghan Death Squads

A U.S.-backed militia that kills children may be America’s exit strategy from its longest war.

Andrew Quilty The Intercept Dec 2020 40min Permalink

The El Paso Experiment

One public defender’s fight against family separation.

Melissa Del Bosque The Intercept Nov 2020 20min Permalink

Politics

How QAnon Conspiracy Theories Spread In My Colorado Hometown

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

Aída Chávez The Intercept Sep 2020 15min Permalink

World

Rainforest on Fire

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

Alexander Zaitchik The Intercept Jul 2019 30min Permalink

Business Politics Science

The Infiltrator

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

Alleen Brown The Intercept Dec 2018 30min Permalink

Crime

What Happened at the Lake

A father took his 10-year-old fishing. She fell in the water and drowned. It was a tragic accident—then he was charged with murder.

Jordan Smith The Intercept Sep 2018 40min Permalink

The Beginning of the End of the World

A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.

Eliza Griswold The Intercept Jul 2018 20min Permalink

World

Losing Sight

A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.

May Jeong The Intercept Jan 2018 40min Permalink

Best Article Media

The Biggest Secret

Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.

James Risen The Intercept Jan 2018 1h5min Permalink

Crime

What Happened to Rachel Gray?

Barry Jones has spent the last 22 years on death row for the murder of a 4-year-old girl. Prosecutors have fought against reopening his case even as the basis for his conviction has fallen apart.

Liliana Segura The Intercept Oct 2017 50min Permalink

Crime Politics

America Reloaded

The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.

Trevor Aaronson The Intercept May 2017 25min Permalink

Crime

How a Daughter's Search for Her Biological Father Led Her to an Execution in Arkansas

Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Gina Grimm always wondered who her biological parents were. “You know, you go to the supermarket and think, ‘That lady kinda has my nose.’ Or, you know, ‘That man kinda has a resemblance to my face.’”

Liliana Segura The Intercept Apr 2017 10min Permalink

Politics Media

The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer

"There is a real danger here that this maneuver can harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him."

Glenn Greenwald The Intercept Jan 2017 10min Permalink

The Crimes of Seal Team 6

They are the most celebrated in the U.S. military. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of “revenge ops,” unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities.

Matthew Cole The Intercept Jan 2017 55min Permalink

Politics

Scenes From A Donald Trump Victory Party

“We’re the fucking establishment now. You and I. We’re not…” the young red hat, encircled by his squad, pantomimed the old establishment with a swaying, limp-wristed dance. “We won. Fuck them.”

Mattathias Schwartz The Intercept Nov 2016 Permalink

Best Article Crime

Code of Silence

Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.

Jamie Kalven The Intercept Oct 2016 1h20min Permalink

Politics

Beheld Live at the RNC

A report from the convention floor.

  1. Part 1: Donald Trump’s United States of #MAGA

  2. Part 2: Donald Trump’s War on Islam

Mattathias Schwartz The Intercept Jul 2016 25min Permalink

Business

Confessions of a Payday Lender: “I Felt Like a Modern-Day Gangster”

Phil Locke made millions charging working people 400% interest. Then he had a change of heart.

Gary Rivlin The Intercept Jun 2016 20min Permalink

Crime

A Shot to the Heart

Bryce Masters was 17 years old when a police officer tased him for 23 seconds. His heart stopped for almost eight minutes. His life will never be the same.

Nick Berardini, Matt Stroud The Intercept Jun 2016 35min Permalink

Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing

Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?

May Jeong The Intercept Apr 2016 25min Permalink

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