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The Intercept Briefing
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Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering news, incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a weekly podcast delivering news, incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl.
Who hosts The Intercept Briefing?
The Intercept Briefing is hosted by The Intercept. The show has published 419 episodes to date.
What has The Intercept Briefing covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Robert Reich and Akela Lacy Break Down the Most Pressing Issues of the Midterm Elections" (27 October 2026, 41 minutes), "The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election" (23 October 2026, 47 minutes), and "DHS Was Designed as a Weapon" (16 October 2026, 44 minutes).
How often does The Intercept Briefing publish?
The Intercept Briefing publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 40 minutes across 419 episodes.
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Episode #45
The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election
Oct 23, 202647 minS3Brazilians will head to the polls on Sunday in one of the most consequential presidential elections of the last decade. The run-off election will determine the future of the largest democracy in Latin America and the...
Episode #44
DHS Was Designed as a Weapon
Oct 16, 202644 minS3A fresh wave of outrage over the Trump administration’s use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has surged after two high-profile events involving ICE in the span of a week: the shooting of a young father in New York...
Oct 9, 202633 minS3As so-called prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket embed themselves in every aspect of our daily lives, from elections to sports and entertainment, concerns have grown about what the explosion of these poorly...
Oct 2, 202647 minS3Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the U.S. government is still targeting pro-Palestine student activists. Even before federal immigration agents descended on communities around the country, killing immigrants...
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Sep 25, 202640 minS3It’s the year of the democratic socialist. But the group that helped start the earthquake currently transforming the Democratic Party almost didn't make it to 2026. After suffering major losses last election cycle after...
Sep 18, 202647 minS3The fight over the future is rapidly unfolding before our eyes. With debates roiling Washington over calls to rein in artificial intelligence before it’s too late as the U.S. continues to wage official and unofficial...
Episode #39
The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable
Sep 14, 202650 minS3Local police departments use Flock cameras to track license plates. ICE uses Palantir software to track and round up immigrants. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war department uses Claude to bomb Iran. The U.S...
Sep 4, 202643 minS3RSVP for The Intercept and 404 Media Live Podcast, September 10 in LA: https://interc.pt/livepodcast Show Description: A quarter century after the September 11 attacks emboldened then-President George W. Bush to launch...
Episode #37
Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA
Aug 28, 202634 minS3The WNBA is having a moment. Viewership is up. Attendance for this year’s WNBA All-Star Game surpassed the NBA’s All-Star Game. Games and events can be viewed in a record number of places, from broadcast to cable and...
Episode #36
What American Doctors Saw in Gaza
Aug 21, 202634 minS3It’s been nearly three years into Israel's genocidal war on Palestinians, and still no step closer to its end. Since the latest “ceasefire” began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more...
Episode #35
Has the Left Really Met Its Limit?
Aug 14, 202631 minS3The stunning momentum of the insurgent left hit a roadblock this week when democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost her primary race for Wisconsin governor to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a...
Aug 5, 202635 minS3Over the course of Donald Trump's second term, Democratic voters have expressed dissatisfaction with their party over what many view as an inability to stand up to the president and his broader movement. That...
Jul 31, 202648 minS3On Tuesday, Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., will face off in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The race is the next biggest test of whether progressives can win statewide, particularly in purple...
Episode #32
Trump’s National Killer Police Force
Jul 24, 202644 minS3Within the span of a week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Maine and Texas, and another was hit by a truck and killed in Florida after trying to avoid ICE agents. A fourth person recently died...
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INTRODUCING: First America by Rebecca Nagle
Jul 11, 202636 minThe Intercept Briefing is happy to share the first episode of journalist Rebecca Nagle's new podcast series, First America . Episode Description: We’ve all been told the American Revolution was fought over taxation and...
Episode #30
Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire
Jul 11, 202640 minS3Last spring, President Donald Trump issued the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, taking aim at federal parks, monuments, museums, and sites that have cast the United States’s “founding...
Jul 7, 202626 minS3The Democratic Party is once again in upheaval as Graham Platner, its unconventional nominee to knock out longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, faces a rape accusation that threatens to end his once-powerful...
Jul 3, 202638 minS3A noise demonstration that took place outside of the Prairieland Detention Facility in Texas one year ago has resulted in decades of prison time for the anti-ICE activists involved. Federal judges sentenced eight...
Jun 25, 202636 minS3All three congressional candidates that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamadani endorsed won their primaries on Tuesday. The races were widely viewed as a test of just how much influence the left would have in charting the...
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