The Intercept Investgations

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Armed Israeli Settlers Detained Ro Khanna. He Wants Their Illegal Outposts Demolished.

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in the Palestinian village of Zanuta, California Rep. Ro Khanna walked through the ruins of a Palestinian school demolished by Israeli settlers several years earlier. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/11/ro-khanna-west-bank-settler-violence-palestine-israel/?

Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire

Last 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 principles and historical milestones in a negative light.” On the Fourth of July this year, the White House published its 162-page “Saving America’s Story,” attacking the Smithsonian Institution directly for “anti-white activism,” “illegal alien activism,” “transgender activism,” and more broadly for adopting “an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/11/america-250-history-myths-native/?

Maine Senate Candidates Claim They’re Just Like Platner — But Entirely Different

Candidates entering the Maine Senate race after Graham Platner suspended his campaign following a rape allegation are walking a fine line between distancing themselves from the disgraced candidate and embracing his base, which they’ll need to beat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in November. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/maine-senate-platner-replace-nirav-shah-troy-jackson/?

Company That Bragged It Could Track U.S. Spies Hired to Investigate “Havana Syndrome”

The U.S. military inquiry into the so-called Havana syndrome, the mysterious illness claimed by a litany of American intelligence officers, is tapping a controversial contractor: a private surveillance firm that once boasted of its ability to stalk American intelligence officers.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/12/anomaly-6-havana-syndrome-surveillance/?

The Trump Administration Is Overhauling Birth Control Access for the Pronatalist Movement

The Trump administration is quietly turning a federal program designed to help lower-income Americans access birth control and other reproductive health services into an engine for pronationalism, a far-right movement with roots in eugenics that pushes people to have more babies.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/rfk-jr-pronatalism-birth-control/?

DSA Members Urge Campaigns to Ditch Platner Consultant Who Advised Mamdani

Members of the Democratic Socialists of America circulated a letter calling on candidates and elected officials to refuse to work with the consultants who handled Graham Platner’s campaign, according to screenshots of the letter shared with The Intercept. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/dsa-graham-platner-morris-katz-consultant/?