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Each week The Intercept’s Washington, D.C. bureau brings you one important or overlooked story from the political world. Bureau Chief Ryan Grim and a rotating cast of journalists, politicians, academics and historians tell you what the rest of the media are missing.
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Solidarity Forever: Building Movements Amid Today’s Crises
“None of us benefit from a burning planet,” says activist and documentarian Astra Taylor on this week’s Deconstructed. Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix join Ryan Grim to discuss their new book, “Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea.” Delving into the philosophical depths of solidarity, they trace its origins back to ancient Rome and explore its relevance in today's interconnected world.
Focusing on transformative solidarity, they highlight its potential to bridge diverse experiences and causes, offering a unified approach to address the multifaceted crises we face. Taylor, a co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union of debtors, and Hunt-Hendrix, co-founder of progressive philanthropy networks Solidaire and Way to Win, draw on their experience to underscore the necessity of transformative solidarity in movement building.
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No to Biden, No to Trump: Insights From Swing-State Voters
A recent Gallup poll found that 29 percent of respondents said neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden are fit for the job. To unpack how voters are feeling about the two candidates, this week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim is joined by Anat Shenker-Osorio, a returning guest, messaging expert, and host of the podcast “Words to Win By.” Together they dig into what she's been hearing from voters in swing states disillusioned by both parties and the whole electoral process.
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How the Gaza War Is Reshaping Social Media
Meta — Facebook and Instagram's parent company — refuses to provide evidence refuting widespread reports that it's censoring Gaza-related content on its platforms. This week on Deconstructed, technology reporter Sam Biddle joins Ryan Grim to discuss his recent reporting on the efforts of Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to press Meta for specifics.
Grim and Biddle dig into debates blaming the horrifying images coming out of Gaza for turning young people against the war. "When people see images of horrific bloodshed," Biddle says, "when they see bodies blown apart by bombs, that's upsetting to most people. There doesn't have to be any ideology attached." They also dive into how pressures to sanitize Israel's war is being used to ban TikTok, and how X, formerly known as Twitter, is profiting off of government surveillance.
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Havana Syndrome: How the Biden Administration Is Driving Cubans Into Misery
Chanting “power and food,” demonstrators have filled Cuba’s streets in recent days. This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim delves into the complexities of Cuba’s current economic crisis with Andrés Pertierra, a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. They discuss the various factors deepening the crisis and driving people to the streets, from the half-century-long U.S. embargo on the island, its own economic policies, pandemic-related destabilization, and sanctions the Trump administration imposed and the Biden administration kept in place. Pertierra is in the fifth year of his Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and hosts “Orígenes: A Cuban History Podcast.”
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A New Haitian Revolution?
Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been compelled to resign as armed gangs tighten their grip on the nation's capital, seizing control of police stations, the main international airport, and freeing thousands of prisoners. This week on Deconstructed, researcher and writer Jake Johnston, who has spent more than a decade reporting on Haiti, joins Ryan Grim to discuss the latest wave of violence hitting the country and the events that led to it. Johnston’s new book, “Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti,” details how U.S. and European goals have continuously undermined the nation’s governance and economy. Johnston is also the senior research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research where he leads Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch.
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Intercepted: U.S. Endorses Pakistan’s Sham Election
The U.S. State Department this week congratulated Pakistan's new prime minister on assuming power, following elections that were marred by widespread allegations of rigging, voter suppression, and violence targeting supporters of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan. On a special crossover episode of Intercepted and Deconstructed, hosts Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim discuss the aftermath of Pakistan's February 8 election, as well as growing calls inside the U.S. to hold Pakistan's military-backed regime accountable for its ongoing suppression of democracy. Hussain and Grim also discuss U.S. interests in the region, and the historical ties between the Pakistani military and its supporters in Washington.
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Really great work!
Very good for people that are interested in background-stories and good researched articles.
Good journalism, sometimes too specific for me
I like the podcast overall, the host is doing good work and is really well prepared for interviews. You can tell that he is a proper geek for the dry but vital stuff and really cares for the topic of the week.
Caring for the dry but vital stuff is a strength in many ways, but I also skip many episodes because they tend to be so in-depth on a particular, highly topical issue that they only offer archival value just a few weeks/months later and are too specific for me to care unless I'm already invested. I swing back and forth on this and I cant really tell what I find interesting at any given moment (sorry), so I dont think this is a bad thing, it just means that only some episodes are great for me. But when they are, they really are.
What I find strange is the tendency to invite rather entrenched political functionaries. Maybe others do, but I have pretty much never learned anything worthwhile from listening to someone making elaborate arguments in favor of a pretty straight-forward position I already know they hold. When I agree with the speaker it's a little boring, when I strongly disagree it comes off as dressing up a pig. Regardless of whether I agree or not, it often comes across as high-minded Washington-Ivy-League-babble of people who are very certain that they know how "the game is played". I could do with less of those episodes and more stories of people who managed to work with or around the political/monied class to help regular people, the environment, etc.
Related to the point above, I could also do with less platforming of people whose main interest is hurting others in order to gain the favor of xenophobes, preserve the US American Empire, or enrich themseves, just because they are perceived to be effective in it or to appease some strange notion of not being afraid to engage with them intellectually. I noticed that the main Intercept podcast has done this rather frequently in the past year and I am glad, that it has been pretty rare on this podcast. Its a tight line to walk between informing and platforming anyways, so I tend to give the benefit of the doubt with regards to the show-writers. I can acknowledge that this podcast doesnt exist to appease me and looking for common ground with political opposition is necessary, but listening becomes a lot more strenuous to me when it boils down to an hour of someone justifying their hate-campaigns or arguing for a supposedly necessary evil under the guise of political realism.
I think the best episodes are those where the host and his colleagues present their own original takes on political power-struggles or contextualize current events.
So, even in acknowledging that I dont like all episodes, I still think this podcast should exist the way it does and I still check out every episode to see if it is for me.
Very informative
Love your work! Always well researched, nuanced and most importantly, informative. This is a great podcast for anyone interested not in the hot takes but trying to understand the complexity of the problems talked about on the show.