Special Investigations
Series
Oil and Water
In the Mercenaries’ Own Words: Documents Detail TigerSwan Infiltration of Standing Rock
North Dakota’s private security regulator said a trove of company documents showed TigerSwan’s denials were “willfully false and misleading.”
The War on Immigrants
A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation
Before “zero tolerance” was rolled out nationwide, Sergio Garcia found himself up against a secret pilot project to test family separation in El Paso.
After the Beirut Explosion, Lebanon’s Women-Led Civil Society Is Building on the Edge of Despair
Last year’s protests were beaten back. Then came the pandemic and, finally, one of the largest nonnuclear explosions in human history.
Move Over, Hunter Biden. Meet Eric Branstad, the China Ambassador’s Son Who Got Rich in Trump’s Swamp.
Branstad’s checkered past includes killing two people in a car crash; he has profited from ties to his father and Trump.
Special Feature
Snowden Archive: The SidToday Files
SIDtoday is the internal newsletter for the NSA’s most important division, the Signals Intelligence Directorate. The Intercept released four years’ worth of newsletters in batches, starting with 2003, after editorial review.
The Coronavirus Crisis
As the Coronavirus Descended on the Border, the Trump Administration Escalated Its Crackdown on Asylum
The coronavirus presented the Trump administration with the pretext to shut down the border and choke off asylum once and for all.
Online Lenders Are Preying on Desperate Borrowers and Could Trigger a New Consumer Financial Crisis
The surge in fintech lending may have dire consequences for American consumers.
Bad Chemistry
PFAS Contamination Divides an Alabama Town
In industry-friendly Decatur, a longtime production hub for 3M, residents are grappling with a PFAS crisis — and how to hold polluters to account.
Thom Tillis Built the Fire. Now It Could Consume Him.
Sen. Tillis is an avatar for the GOP’s reactionary turn to the right. Now, his proximity to Trump makes him one of the most vulnerable incumbent senators.
Special Feature
The Drone Papers
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Ravaged by Covid-19, Polluted Communities Demand Environmental Justice
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the corrosive legacy of environmental racism in the United States.
Disregarding the Virus and Victims’ Families, Trump Rushes to Execute as Many People as Possible
With coronavirus cases on the rise in Indiana, the Trump administration carried out the first federal executions in 17 years.