Deconstructed

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Jan G
 Jun 22, 2023
Great reporting.

Darwin S.
 Feb 7, 2021
A very honest and in-depth show about current politics put into well researched historical context.

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Each week The Intercept’s Washington, D.C. bureau brings you one important or overlooked story from the political world. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim and a rotating cast of journalists, politicians, academics and historians tell you what the rest of the media are missing.

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Episode Date
Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery
Mar 22, 2024
A New Haitian Revolution?
Mar 15, 2024
Intercepted: U.S. Endorses Pakistan’s Sham Election
Mar 06, 2024
Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War
Mar 01, 2024
Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange
Feb 20, 2024
“America’s Fair-Haired Boy,” Notorious Mass Murderer, on Brink of Indonesian Presidency
Feb 17, 2024
No University Left Standing in Gaza
Feb 09, 2024
The Case for Open Borders
Feb 02, 2024
Pakistan Ambassador Opens Up
Jan 26, 2024
BONUS: Narco Gangs Launch Rebellion In Ecuador
Jan 22, 2024
The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine
Jan 19, 2024
No Safe Place in Gaza
Jan 12, 2024
“Lever Time” Presents: Artificial Intelligence Is Denying Americans Health Care
Dec 22, 2023
“The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War
Dec 15, 2023
“The Squad,” Part 2: From Obama to Bernie, a Crisis and a Crossroads
Dec 08, 2023
“The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie
Dec 05, 2023
Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim On The Squad
Dec 01, 2023
Who Was Napoleon’s Wife, Joséphine Bonaparte?
Nov 19, 2023
Shawn Fain on How the UAW Whipped the Big Three
Nov 10, 2023
The Squad Is Getting Primaried for Standing Against the War
Nov 03, 2023
Inside a Gaza Village: “All of Us Will Die, but We Don’t Know When”
Oct 27, 2023
Unraveling Democracy: The Corporate Takeover
Oct 20, 2023
Fog of War: The Media and the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Oct 13, 2023
Hijacked Hope: Why a Decade of Mass Protest Backfired
Oct 06, 2023
The Feds Take Big Tech to Court
Sep 30, 2023
Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal
Sep 22, 2023
Naomi Klein on Conspiracy Culture and “the Mirror World”
Sep 15, 2023
Inside the Lefty Congressional Delegation to Latin America
Sep 09, 2023
Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiations Advance
Sep 01, 2023
Rebroadcast: The Villages Crush a Grassroots Revolt
Aug 25, 2023
How a Leaked Cable Upended Pakistani Politics — And Exposed U.S. Meddling
Aug 18, 2023
How the U.S. Makes Its Wars Invisible
Aug 11, 2023
United by Necessity: How the American Revolution Averted Civil War
Aug 04, 2023
Meet the Man Driving the Right’s Culture War Panic
Jul 28, 2023
Congress Melts Down Over Israel Again
Jul 21, 2023
Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: The Stealth Supreme Court Rulings No One Is Talking About
Jul 18, 2023
Cluster Bomb Fight in the House
Jul 15, 2023
Price Controls: An Inflation Solution That Doesn’t Screw Workers
Jul 07, 2023
Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: The Supreme Court Has A Billionaire Problem
Jul 03, 2023
New NIH Emails Released: What Are Officials Trying to Hide About Covid’s Origins?
Jun 30, 2023
On the Ground in Ukraine
Jun 23, 2023
Lever Time with David Sirota Presents: Pentagon Whistleblower, The Government Is Hiding “Non-Human” Technology
Jun 19, 2023
A Conversation With Joe Manchin’s Former Right Hand, Scott Sears
Jun 16, 2023
Imran Khan: U.S. Was Manipulated By Pakistan Military Into Backing Overthrow
Jun 06, 2023
A Dmitri Rebuttal by Messaging Expert Anat Shenker-Osorio
Jun 02, 2023
Economist Stephanie Kelton on the Debt Limit, a Potential Catastrophe We’re Risking for No Reason
May 26, 2023
Turkish Elections: Erdogan’s Government Arrested and Expelled International Election Observers
May 18, 2023
Around the World Update: Turkey, Pakistan, and Palestine
May 12, 2023
Dmitri: The Man Financing a Political Counterrevolution
May 06, 2023
Ben Smith on the Bust of the Digital Media Age
Apr 28, 2023
“Myth America”: New Book Dismantles 20 Legends About Our Past
Apr 21, 2023
Marianne Williamson on Being a TikTok Phenom
Apr 14, 2023
The Teamsters and the UAW Gear Up for Struggle
Apr 07, 2023
A Is for Abuse: The Saga of For-Profit Schooling in Africa
Mar 28, 2023
Understanding the Silicon Valley Bank Run
Mar 17, 2023
Ending the Hidden Occupation
Mar 10, 2023
Win Debates Like Mehdi Hasan
Mar 03, 2023
How Progressive Democrats Were Railroaded in the Primaries by AIPAC and Allied Groups
Feb 26, 2023
The Villages Crush a Grassroots Revolt
Feb 18, 2023
How the FBI Infiltrated Racial Justice Protests in 2020
Feb 10, 2023
Tema Okun on Her Mythical Paper on White Supremacy
Feb 03, 2023
Biden’s New Chief of Staff Might Be Very Bad News
Jan 24, 2023
The Hidden Siege of Nagorno-Karabakh
Jan 20, 2023
It’s Important to Talk Openly About Suicide
Jan 13, 2023
Israel’s Rightward Turn
Jan 06, 2023
What We Found in the New JFK Files
Dec 22, 2022
Inside the Fight for Climate Justice
Dec 13, 2022
How Purple is Georgia?
Dec 08, 2022
Philly’s Reform Prosecutor Reacts to His Impeachment
Nov 29, 2022
The Data Guy Who Got the Midterms Right
Nov 24, 2022
Bonfire of the Twitterverse
Nov 18, 2022
AOC and Mo Mitchell on the Midterms
Nov 12, 2022
For Abortion Rights, Could Kentucky Be the Next Kansas?
Nov 04, 2022
Can a Progressive Populist Win in Trump Country?
Oct 28, 2022
How Democrats Botched Impeachment
Oct 22, 2022
Senate Races That Could Tip The Balance
Oct 14, 2022
The Journalist Censored for Defending Rashida Tlaib
Oct 07, 2022
Bolsonaro on the Brink as the Far Right Rises in Europe
Sep 30, 2022
Is Crypto a Big Scam?
Sep 23, 2022
When the Uneasy Democratic Coalition Shares a Neighborhood
Sep 16, 2022
Democrats Could Codify Roe
Sep 09, 2022
Aboard the Trump Train
Sep 02, 2022
What’s It Like to Be a Red-State Abortion Doctor Post-Roe?
Aug 26, 2022
A Progressive Vision for the Economy
Aug 19, 2022
Biomedical Racism, Queer Theory, and the Monkeypox Epidemic
Aug 11, 2022
Progressives on Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit and US-China Policy
Aug 03, 2022
Behind the Manchin Miracle
Jul 29, 2022
What We May Never Know About Jan. 6
Jul 23, 2022
Vietnam to the Contras: The Life and Journalism of Robert Parry
Jul 15, 2022
Why Jason Kander Walked Away From Politics
Jul 07, 2022
How the Democrats Forgot the New Deal and Paved the Way for Trumpism
Jul 01, 2022
The Colombian Left Comes to Power
Jun 24, 2022
The Implosion of Progressive Organizing
Jun 14, 2022
Revisiting the Capitol Insurrection
Jun 10, 2022
Can Democrats Win in Rural America?
Jun 04, 2022
Elizabeth Warren and Lori Wallach on the Solar War With China
May 26, 2022
Pennsylvania Surges Left at the Polls
May 19, 2022
The U.S. Is Stealing Afghanistan's Money and Starving Its People
May 13, 2022
The Lab-Leak Theory Is Looking Stronger by the Day. Here's What We Know.
May 06, 2022
Re-Broadcast: Ilyse Hogue on the Roots of the Movement to Overturn Roe
May 03, 2022
Steven Donziger vs. Big Oil
Apr 27, 2022
On the Road With Bernie Sanders
Apr 22, 2022
Mackenzie Fierceton On Her Battle With UPenn
Apr 16, 2022
A Truce In Yemen
Apr 09, 2022
David Sirota Goes to the Oscars
Apr 02, 2022
Joe Manchin Has Some Thoughts on Green Energy
Mar 26, 2022
Are Prices "Engines of Chaos"?
Mar 18, 2022
Don’t Cry for Me, Hydrocarbons
Mar 12, 2022
The War Over Ukrainian History and Identity
Mar 05, 2022
Murderville, TX: Episode 2, The Cops
Feb 25, 2022
The Case for Expanding Social Security
Feb 19, 2022
Gas Price Politics And Genocide Collide In Yemen
Feb 11, 2022
Dignity in a Digital Age, With Ro Khanna
Feb 02, 2022
Introducing Murderville, Texas
Feb 01, 2022
Haiti, Smedley Butler, and the Rise of American Empire
Jan 22, 2022
Is Biden in the Midst of a World Historic Crime Against Humanity?
Jan 15, 2022
The Life and Legacy of Harry Reid
Jan 08, 2022
A New Way To Think About Medicare
Dec 18, 2021
Congress Caves To Saudi Arabia On Yemen War
Dec 10, 2021
Greening Red America: Breaking Down Build Back Better’s Climate Ag Policy
Dec 03, 2021
A Giving Tuesday Message
Nov 30, 2021
Rewriting History
Nov 19, 2021
Truth and Reconciliation
Nov 12, 2021
If Biden Wants to Build Back Better, He Should Look to Obama’s Mistakes
Nov 05, 2021
Jamaal Bowman on His First Year in Congress
Oct 28, 2021
Ro Khanna on Reconciliation
Oct 23, 2021
Michael Isikoff on Julian Assange and Monica Lewinsky
Oct 15, 2021
Facebook's Very Bad Week Just Got Worse
Oct 08, 2021
Hold the Line: The Progressive Caucus Makes Its Stand
Oct 02, 2021
Nina Turner on Her Loss and Future
Sep 24, 2021
Tax the Rich
Sep 17, 2021
King Manchin
Sep 10, 2021
Line 3 and a Week of Climate Catastrophe
Sep 04, 2021
Andrew Quilty and Ilhan Omar on Afghanistan
Aug 28, 2021
Anand Gopal And Richard Ojeda On Afghanistan
Aug 21, 2021
The Era of Climate Denial is Over
Aug 13, 2021
Cori Bush on the Shame and Power of Poverty
Aug 06, 2021
The Coup That Wasn't
Jul 23, 2021
Antitrust Makes a Comeback
Jul 16, 2021
How “The People’s Mayor” Saved Public Power
Jul 02, 2021
Chelsea Manning Meets Ken Klippenstein
Jun 25, 2021
Joe Manchin Gets Candid With Billionaire Donors in Leaked Audio
Jun 16, 2021
Banishing the Ghosts of the Great Recession
Jun 11, 2021
Race and Taxes
Jun 04, 2021
Losing the Asymmetric War
May 28, 2021
Life and Death in Occupied Palestine
May 21, 2021
The System That Killed Berta Cáceres
May 14, 2021
The Deconstructed May Day Special
May 07, 2021
Matt Bruenig on Joe Biden's American Families Plan
Apr 29, 2021
The Whistleblower Trying to Stop the Next Financial Crisis
Apr 23, 2021
The New Mexico Spring
Apr 16, 2021
A Big New Idea to End the Border Crisis
Apr 08, 2021
From Coyotes to Coffin Ships: Joe Biden and the Border
Apr 03, 2021
Daniel Ellsberg on Biden and Whistleblowers
Mar 26, 2021
Medicare for All Just Got a Massive Boost
Mar 19, 2021
Bernie Backers Took Over the Nevada Democratic Party. The Old Guard Walked Out.
Mar 09, 2021
What's Really in the Covid Relief Bill?
Mar 05, 2021
France and the Myth of the Color-Blind Society
Feb 26, 2021
Texas Republicans Ran a Twenty-Year Experiment. The Results Are In.
Feb 19, 2021
Let’s End the War in Yemen
Feb 12, 2021
Filibuster or Bust
Feb 05, 2021
Could the For the People Act Save American Democracy?
Feb 01, 2021
What’s the Path Forward for Medicare for All?
Jan 29, 2021
A Reckoning Over Homophobia in the Democratic Party
Jan 22, 2021
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Her Escape From the Capitol Riot
Jan 15, 2021
Inside the Insurrection
Jan 07, 2021
Could Trump Still Try to Attack Iran?
Jan 05, 2021
Puerto Ricans Voted for Statehood (Again). What Happens Now?
Dec 18, 2020
Inside Biden's Meeting With Civil Rights Leaders
Dec 10, 2020
A Political History of Georgia
Dec 04, 2020
What Can Biden Do Without the Senate?
Nov 20, 2020
Populism Versus the Consulting Class
Nov 13, 2020
What Happened?
Nov 06, 2020
The Rise of the Radical Moms
Oct 30, 2020
The Final Debate
Oct 23, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett and the Looming Google Antitrust Case
Oct 17, 2020
In Eric Branstad, The Trump Administration Has Its Own Hunter Biden Problem
Oct 16, 2020
A Look at the 2020 Congressional Landscape
Oct 09, 2020
A Goodbye Message from Mehdi
Oct 02, 2020
Why You Should Care About the Extradition of Julian Assange
Oct 02, 2020
What Do We Do if Trump Won’t Go?
Sep 25, 2020
Do Democrats Risk Repeating the Mistakes of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Covid-19?
Sep 17, 2020
The Political Revolution Comes to the Statehouse
Sep 11, 2020
Markey Won. Morse Lost. What Happens Next?
Sep 03, 2020
Is QAnon the Future of the Republican Party?
Aug 28, 2020
Democratic Convention Special: Do Biden and Harris Have What It Takes to Beat Trump?
Aug 21, 2020
The Trump Child Abuse Scandal
Jul 09, 2020
Can We Build a Politics of Hope?
Jul 02, 2020
The Rise of the Left (with Mondaire Jones)
Jun 25, 2020
Let’s Defund The Military, Too
Jun 18, 2020
Is It Time To Defund the Police?
Jun 11, 2020
Is This Trump’s Reichstag Fire Moment?
Jun 04, 2020
One Hundred Thousand Dead From The Coronavirus. What Happens Next?
May 28, 2020
Is Bill Barr the Most Dangerous Member of the Trump Administration?
May 21, 2020
Is Elon Musk a Fraud?
May 14, 2020
Are Trump and the Anti-Lockdown Militias Itching For Violence?
May 07, 2020
Joe Biden Thinks We Should Believe Women—Just Not Tara Reade
Apr 30, 2020
Has The Coronavirus Made The Ultimate Case For Medicare For All?
Apr 23, 2020
The Media Helped Elect Trump in 2016. Are they Doing it Again?
Apr 16, 2020
Is Donald Trump Criminally Responsible for Coronavirus Deaths?
Apr 02, 2020
Introducing Somebody
Mar 30, 2020
Is the Trump Cult a Death Cult?
Mar 25, 2020
How to Save the U.S. Economy, With AOC and Stephanie Kelton
Mar 20, 2020
Bernie Versus Biden: Who Won the Debate?
Mar 16, 2020
Capitalism Versus Coronavirus
Mar 12, 2020
Can Biden Still Be Stopped?
Mar 04, 2020
Debate Special: The One Where Everyone Attacks Bernie
Feb 26, 2020
How Bloomberg Blew it In Las Vegas
Feb 20, 2020
Live from L.A. with John Legend and Patrisse Cullors
Feb 13, 2020
Rigged: The Acquittal of Donald J Trump
Feb 06, 2020
Does Joe Biden Have a Corruption Problem?
Jan 30, 2020
Why is Billionaire Tom Steyer Running for President?
Jan 23, 2020
Truth, Lies, and the Democratic Debate
Jan 15, 2020
Why Don’t We Care About China’s Uighur Muslims?
Dec 29, 2019
Nixon, Clinton, and What the Right Gets Wrong About Impeachment
Dec 05, 2019
It's Giving Tuesday!
Dec 03, 2019
Who Won Last Night’s Democratic Debate?
Nov 21, 2019
Does Liberal Canada Have a Dark Side?
Nov 14, 2019
The Bernie Sanders Interview
Nov 07, 2019
Deconstructed Special: The Noam Chomsky Interview
Oct 31, 2019
How to Resist: Live with Ilhan Omar and Michael Moore
Oct 24, 2019
Is It Time for Democrats to Fight Dirty?
Oct 17, 2019
Beto O’Rourke to Democrats: Go Big On Impeachment
Oct 10, 2019
The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism
Oct 03, 2019
Finally, Impeachment: Julián Castro on Trump and Ukraine
Sep 26, 2019
Israel: Democracy or Apartheid?
Sep 19, 2019
Democratic Debate: Is Joe Biden OK?
Sep 13, 2019
Who Won the First Democratic Debates?
Jun 28, 2019
Iran Crisis: Have We Learned Nothing from The Iraq War?
Jun 20, 2019
Why Won't the Democratic Candidates Move to the Left on Foreign Policy?
Jun 13, 2019
Why is Andrew Yang Running for President?
Jun 06, 2019
Brexit and the Rise of the British Trumps
May 30, 2019
Joe Biden Would Be a Disaster
May 23, 2019
Will John Bolton Finally Get His War With Iran?
May 16, 2019
Is Trump a Fascist?
May 09, 2019
The Case For (and Against) Impeaching Trump
May 02, 2019
The Case Against AIPAC
Mar 28, 2019
Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Trump, Islamophobia, and His Presidential Bid
Mar 21, 2019
Erik Prince, Perjury, and the Secret Trump Tower Meeting
Mar 14, 2019
Cornel West on Bernie, Trump, and Racism
Mar 07, 2019
Ilhan Omar Speaks Out On Her Twitter Scandal, Anti-Semitism, and a Progressive Foreign Policy
Feb 28, 2019
Why Won’t the Media Discuss Trump’s Mental Instability?
Feb 21, 2019
The Truth About Islam and Democracy
Feb 14, 2019
Who’s Really Afraid of Socialism?
Feb 07, 2019
Is It Time For Kamala Harris To Reckon With Her Right-Wing Past?
Jan 31, 2019
Intercept Podcast Special: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Jan 28, 2019
What You Can't Say About Israel (with Marc Lamont Hill)
Jan 24, 2019
When Do We “Impeach the Motherf*cker”? (with Rashida Tlaib)
Jan 17, 2019
Introducing Murderville
Dec 13, 2018
Is This the Democrat Who Can Beat Trump in the Rust Belt in 2020?
Dec 06, 2018
George H.W. Bush: The Inconvenient Truth
Dec 04, 2018
The Senate Just Took a Major Step Toward Ending the War In Yemen
Nov 29, 2018
Trump’s Top Ten Lies and Why They Matter (with Daniel Dale)
Nov 21, 2018
Why the Democrats Can (and Should) Impeach Trump
Nov 15, 2018
Midterms Special: Who Won, Who Lost, and What Happens Next?
Nov 07, 2018
Race or Class: What Will Drive Trump Voters in the Midterms?
Nov 01, 2018
Is Trump Inciting Far Right Terror In the U.S.?
Oct 29, 2018
From Caravans to Cages: Why Trump Bashes Migrants
Oct 25, 2018
Why Won't Trump Condemn the Saudis? (Hint: It's Israel. Also, Iran)
Oct 18, 2018
Live Special: Are the Democrats Ready to Get Radical?
Oct 11, 2018
The Right Won the Battle Over Kavanaugh. Can the Left Win the War?
Oct 06, 2018
Riz Ahmed on Politics, Identity, and Being Brown in Hollywood
Oct 04, 2018
What The Kavanaugh Scandal Says About America
Sep 27, 2018
Is Ilhan Omar Donald Trump’s Worst Nightmare?
Sep 20, 2018
Why is America Helping to Kill Kids in Yemen?
Sep 13, 2018
The White Supremacy Court Upholds the Muslim Ban
Jun 26, 2018
Confronting the Consequences of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Jun 22, 2018
Will the U.S. Ever Give Up Its Nukes?
Jun 15, 2018
Elizabeth Warren v. the District of Corruption
Jun 08, 2018
The War on Immigrants
Jun 01, 2018
Edward Snowden on Privacy in the Age of Trump and Facebook
May 25, 2018
How The Trumps Screwed Palestine
May 18, 2018
Is Trump Trying to Start a War with Iran?
May 11, 2018
Will the Media Ever Stand Up to Trump? (with Judd Apatow)
May 04, 2018
The Killing Fields of Gaza
Apr 27, 2018
How Bad Is The News? (With Hasan Minhaj)
Apr 20, 2018
Is Trump About To Start An Illegal War With Syria?
Apr 13, 2018
Why Black Lives Still Don't Matter
Apr 06, 2018
Will John Bolton Get Us All Killed?
Mar 30, 2018
We Need to Talk About Inequality (with Bernie Sanders)
Mar 23, 2018
Coming Soon: Deconstructed with Mehdi Hasan
Mar 01, 2018