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Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country

Sam Richards

CellHawk helps law enforcement visualize large quantities of information collected by cellular towers and providers.

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I Sued Blackwater for the Massacre of Iraqi Civilians. Trump Just Pardoned Those Convicted Killers.

Paul Dickinson

Trump’s pardon of the Blackwater mercenaries who murdered 14 Iraqi civilians at Nisour Square shows the world what justice means in the United States.

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Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting in Unsealed Remarks

Sam Biddle

The internal documents suggest that Facebook should stop positioning itself as a champion of small business.

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On Christmas, America Celebrates the Birth of Reverse Jesus

Jon Schwarz

What if we were to actually use the life of Christ as a basis for Christmas?

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SolarWinds Hack Infected Critical Infrastructure, Including Power Industry

Kim Zetter

The companies involved used compromised software, but it’s not clear if hackers entered their networks. Finding out could be difficult.

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Investigator: DNC Was “Directly Involved” in Iowa Caucus App Development, Countering DNC Denial

Jordan Chariton

In a closed-session Iowa State Democrats meeting, members pushed for answers on the DNC’s role in the caucus debacle.

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Snowden and Assange Deserve Pardons. So Do the Whistleblowers Trump Imprisoned.

James Risen

Press freedom advocates must be careful not to indulge Trump’s conspiracy theories while they lobby for whistleblower pardons.

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How a Man Serving Life Without Parole for $20 of Weed Gained His Freedom

Tana Ganeva

Innocence Project lawyers relied on a July Louisiana court ruling to make a case for Fate Winslow’s release. He’d been in prison for 12 years.

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Labor’s Untold Story: An Old Book Is Getting a New Look

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

Unions have lost the militancy that characterized the early days, their members disconnected from the broader project of economic rights for all.

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Thursday, December 24, 2020

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Investigative reporters are an endangered species

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

We're part of a proud tradition of muckraking journalism going back a century or more. But today, the newspapers that employed most of those journalists are dying or dead. The Intercept is part of

How Highly Compensated CEOs Strip-Mined the Majority-Nonprofit Hospital Sector

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Years of understaffing nurses and health care workers have consequences, experts say. MOST READ Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff and Supplies. Now They're Not Ready for the Next Wave.

A U.S.-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America’s Exit Strategy From Its Longest War

Saturday, December 19, 2020

Operatives from an elite CIA-trained paramilitary unit massacred at least 51 civilians in 10 previously undocumented night raids. MOST READ A US-Backed Militia That Kills Children May Be America's

Remember how the Obama administration treated Edward Snowden and Julian Assange?

Friday, December 18, 2020

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