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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 01: U.S. President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn as he returns to the White House on March 01, 2026 in Washington, DC. On Saturday, President Trump announced that the United States and Israel had launched strikes on Iran targeting political and military leaders, as well as Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear programs. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

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The Regime Change President Who Won’t (or Can’t) Actually Change Any Regimes

The Iran war shows that Trump is loving his military interventions — but they are never what he claims them to be.

President Donald Trump stands with other world leaders before a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers

An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026.

Targeting Iran

Trump’s Iran Attack Was Illegal, Former U.S. Military Officials Allege

Austin Campbell

“This is an introduction of U.S. forces into hostilities. It absolutely triggers the 48-hour notice requirement.”

Smoke rises over the city center of Tehran, Iran after U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on February 28, 2026.

Targeting Iran

The U.S. and Israel Killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. What Comes Next?

Representative Henry Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas and ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, speaks during a hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. The oversight hearing is meant to examine the impacts of a potential Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Midterms 2026

Texas Progressives Say Democratic Establishment Is Blowing It In the Rio Grande Valley

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the Capitol on February 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump delivered his address days after the Supreme Court struck down the administration's tariff strategy, and amid a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf threatening Iran. (Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Voices

Fool Me Twice: The Case for War With Iran Is Even Thinner Than It Was for Iraq

Séamus Malekafzali

A burnt truck is pictured after a wave of violence in the town of Aguililla, the birthplace of drug kingpin Nemesio Oseguera, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in Tierra Caliente, Mexico, on February 24, 2026. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on February 24 dismissed risks to fans visiting Guadalajara, one of the venues for the 2026 World Cup, after a drug cartel riot caused fear in the city and much of the country on February 22. (Photo by Enrique Castro / AFP via Getty Images)

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Made-in-America Guns Are Fueling Death and Destruction in Mexico

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Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union

The Intercept Briefing

What Does Trump Want With Cuba?

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President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Voices

Trump Uses the Courts to Intimidate Critics. The Media Must Fight Back.

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 24: President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. Vice President JD Vance, left, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Voices

Democrats Should Never Again Rise to Trump’s Anti-Trans Bait

Natasha Lennard

Politics

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y, arrives for a State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026.

Democrats Finally Get Around to Forcing Iran War Powers Vote

Chilling Dissent

Florida Might Make Its Own Spy Squad. Muslims Think They Have a Pretty Good Idea Who’ll Be Targeted.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: U.S. President Joe Biden (C) delivers remarks on the recently announced cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas while joined by Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Cross Hall of the White House on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The multiphase cease-fire deal, brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, commits Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza after 15 months. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Voices

There’s No “Progressive Foreign Policy” Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide

Midterms 2026

A New PAC Wants to Counter Israel’s Influence. It Also Welcomes Hitler Apologists.

Justice

Mahmoud Khalil arrives for the public swearing-in ceremony for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom?

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 5: Protesters, mostly students targeted by ICE and demanding more protections, were arrested by New York police for engaging in civil disobedience by blocking a road outside Columbia University on February 5, 2026, in New York City, United States. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Zohran Mamdani Kept Columbia Student in New York — Then Phoned With Trump to Secure Her Release

Private Prison Falsified Records in Detainee’s Death in ICE Custody

Richard Glossip is escorted out of Oklahoma County District Court Judge Natalie Mai's courtroom on February, 12, 2026.

Trials of Richard Glossip

A Supreme Court Win Didn’t Free Richard Glossip. But This Judge Could.

National Security

GUADALAJARA, JALISCO, MEXICO - FEBRUARY 22: A view of the site where Mexican Army troops killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as 'El Mencho,' leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (Jalisco New Generation), during a federal operation in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on February 22, 2026. Earlier in the day, armed men blocked several highways in the western state of Jalisco, setting vehicles and trucks on fire in response to the federal security operation in the region (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE

Muicipal police trucks remain next to a burning bus set on fire by organised crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on February 22, 2026. Armed civilians blocked several roads in the state of Jalisco, in western Mexico, following an operation by federal forces in the town of Tapalpa, local authorities reported. Jalisco, which will host four matches of the upcoming 2026 World Cup, is home to the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), and has been rocked by several episodes of violence in recent years. (Photo by Ulises Ruiz / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Demanded El Mencho’s Head. Mexicans Are Paying the Price.

In this handout photo obtained from the U.S. Defence Department, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Arabian Sea, Feb. 6, 2026.

Trump Menaces Iran With Massive Armada Capable of Prolonged War

Screenshot from a video U.S. Southern Command posted on X on Dec. 31, 2025, to announce an attack the day prior.

License to Kill

U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive.

Tomi McCluskey, Nick Turse

World

The Mexican Navy ship Papaloapan arrives to Havana Bay, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026.

Cuban Border Guards Attacked by Florida Speedboat

By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda

Steven W. Thrasher, Afeef Nessouli

An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration

An aerial view of the burial in mass graves of 111 Palestinians who died due to Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, the occupied Gaza Strip, on Nov. 22, 2023.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Israeli Military Found Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll Was Accurate. Will These Deniers Admit It?

Technology

An entrance to Bellevue Hospital is seen in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020.

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals

Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks at the border with Mexico Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, in Nogales, Ariz.

The War on Immigrants

Lawmakers Call on Meta to Stop Running ICE Ad Featuring Neo-Nazi Anthem

Austin Campbell

A finger hovers above an iPhone displaying an image of a fingerprint on February 18, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

Apple CEO Tim Cook departs a business leaders reception with President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026.

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

Environment

People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California on March 1, 2025. The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) estimates 1,000 US National Park Service employees who were on one-year probationary periods were laid off. About 3,400 employees of the US Forest Service were among the cuts too, according to multiple US media reports. The cuts were part of the work of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk, as part of a declared effort to reduce public spending by dismantling the federal bureaucracy. (Photo by Laure Andrillon / AFP) (Photo by LAURE ANDRILLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Admin “Deliberately” Tanking Morale to Get Parks Staff to Quit, Official Says in Leaked Tape

A serpentine river near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska on September 11, 2022.

Climate Crimes

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

The new US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

Jessica Washington

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Members of the Sunrise Movement are arrested as they protest outside the Senate office of Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement, a climate change political action group, held signs accusing Vance of being in the pocket of big oil companies. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump