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It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention”

Séamus Malekafzali

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With World’s Eyes on Iran, Israel Locks Down the West Bank

The Israeli military has closed checkpoints around the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement as settler violence ramps up.

Chilling Dissent

Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters

The far-right Center for Security Policy, led by anti-Muslim activist Frank Gaffney, is best known for pedaling conspiracy theories.

US President Donald Trump speaks with the media as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on aboard Air Force One during a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, on March 7, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Targeting Iran

U.S. Military Refuses to Endorse Trump Claim That Iran Bombed Girls’ School

“It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation,” CENTCOM told The Intercept.

GAZA CITY, GAZA â" DECEMBER 19: Palestinians walk through roads surrounded by massive rubble and collapsed buildings in Al-Zahra, northwest of the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip, as residents continue their daily lives amid the destruction left by Israeli attacks, facing harsh living conditions on December 19, 2025. (Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere.

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington.

OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 26: Protestors take part in anti-ICE rally outside Columbia University after federal agents detained a student inside a residential campus building in New York City, New York, U.S., February 26, 2026. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Columbia Flouted Its Own Policies and Let ICE Into University Buildings

Meghnad Bose, Macy Hanzlik-Barend

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press conference on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding at the U.S. Capitol on February 04, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Democratic leadership outlined their demands for ICE accountability as Congress debates funding legislation for the DHS ahead of next week's deadline.

Voices

ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

Trump’s War to Nowhere

The Intercept Briefing

Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union

Voices

Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during a news conference at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Monday, March 2, 2026. Hegseth rejected the idea that the war against Iran would be the sort of endless conflict that President Donald Trump swore to avoid when he took office a second time, saying "our generation knows better." Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voices

Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism

Natasha Lennard

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks at a rally in support of the Kids Online Safety Act on Capitol Hill on December 10, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Voices

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

Politics

Nida Allam, a Durham County commissioner and North Carolina Democratic congressional primary candidate, speaks at a Bernie Sanders rally in Durham, N.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson)

Nida Allam Concedes to Valerie Foushee With Razor-Thin Loss for Progressives in Key Midterm Primary

Jessica Washington

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) speaks to the press after a briefing with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratliffe and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine on US military action in Iran, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2026. The United States hit hundreds of targets across Iran, and Israel expanded its bombing to Lebanon on Monday as President Donald Trump vowed to avenge the first US deaths in the war he launched to topple Tehran's ruling clerics. Iranian forces fired missiles and drones across the Middle East, killing people in Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in retaliation for the conflict that began February 28 with the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Targeting Iran

House Iran War Powers Resolution Could Lose Support to Competing Bill by Pro-Israel Democrat

Midterms 2026

Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans — Including Laura Loomer

Jacqueline Sweet

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trump’s Iran War Is Dividing Republicans. Pro-Palestine Groups Want Democrats to Exploit the Rifts.

Justice

Observers gather while federal agents sit in a vehicle in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, on February 10, 2026.

Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live”

Austin Campbell

Children attend a House meeting of the Education K-12 subcommittee Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

The War on Immigrants

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It”

Jessica Washington

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.

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

Chilling Dissent

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

National Security

This picture, released by the Iranian government's foreign media department and distributed by the AP without changes, shows graves being prepared for the victims, mostly children, of what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike Feb. 28 at a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Media Department via AP)

Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next

Screenshot from a video U.S. Southern Command posted on X announcing the joint operation on March 3, 2026.

License to Kill

U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters as he arrives for an intelligence briefing with top lawmakers on Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2026.

Targeting Iran

Rubio Admits That America Is Fighting Israel’s War

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat from New York, left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, during a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the White House negotiated a short-term continuing resolution for DHS that ended a brief partial shutdown yesterday, which House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his entire Democratic leadership team voted against. Photographer: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Midterms 2026

Democratic Leaders Avoid Criticizing Trump’s Iran War. Now Voters Will Have a Say.

World

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)

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

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

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

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?

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