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Under Cover of Mass Death, Andrew Cuomo Calls in the Billionaires to Build a High-Tech DystopiaNaomi KleinBig tech’s emerging pandemic shock doctrine demands heavy public subsidies for a no-touch, socially distanced coronavirus future.
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Whistleblower Details How Trump’s Bureaucrats Refused to Secure N95 Masks as Pandemic LoomedSharon LernerThe report from Richard Bright reveals a new villain in the tragic saga of the administration’s mismanagement of the coronavirus crisis: Robert Kadlec.
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Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Be the next person to support The Intercept's independent journalism by becoming a member today.Top Stories
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“Capital in the 21st Century”: Finally, a Movie That Tells the Story of How We Got Into This MessJon SchwarzBased on the bestseller by Thomas Piketty, this documentary shows how the elite stays in power by shaping the way we think.
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New Jersey’s Cartoonishly Corrupt Democratic Party Is Finally Getting ChallengedRyan Grim, Akela LacyHector Oseguera, who is challenging Albio Sires for Congress, is part of a wave of challengers taking on the local machine in North Jersey.
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Giant Hospital Corporation Takes Advantage of Coronavirus to Fight Nurses’ Union DriveMatthew Cunningham-Cook, Jonathan MichelsThe megacorporation, which got almost $5 billion in relief funds, hired pricey union-busting consultants to sway the vote.
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Ohio Government Invites Employers to Secretly Report “Work Refusal” Due to CoronavirusAída ChávezWorkers who stay home out of concern for unsafe conditions at work may be investigated and potentially stripped of unemployment benefits.
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Republicans Are Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Win Long-Desired Bank Deregulation, Raising Potential for Bank FailuresLee FangGOP lawmakers urged the Federal Reserve and FDIC to loosen regulations put in place after the 2008 crisis. The changes were slipped into the CARES Act.
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With Patents on Coronavirus Medicines, International Drug Companies Will Decide Whether Brazilians Live or DieJorge Bermudez, Achal PrabhalaU.S. and European drug companies will hold monopoly power over coronavirus medicines for years — straining health care systems of countries like Brazil.
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Mass Incarceration Poses a Uniquely American Risk in the Coronavirus PandemicAlice SperiThe virus has exposed just how deadly prisons and jails are for incarcerated people, and for society at large.
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Four Die-Hard Loyalists Are Enabling Trump’s Apocalyptic Coronavirus ResponseJames RisenKushner, Miller, Pompeo, and Barr are using the nation’s greatest public health crisis in a century to foment hoaxes and punish the president’s enemies.
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Podcasts
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Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the Politics of Sexual MisconductInterceptedJournalist Melissa Gira Grant and former Nevada Assemblwoman Lucy Flores are this week’s guests.
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Are Trump and the Anti-Lockdown Militias Itching for Violence?DeconstructedArmed protesters have shown up at state capitols to protest the ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns. Where will this end?
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