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302 EpisodenIntercepted: Trump and the Future of the Ukraine-Russia War
The war in Ukraine was supposed to be a short conflict. But it has been three years since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, killing hundreds of thousand...
Intercepted: The Meaning of the Genocide in Gaza
During a recent press briefing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump floated an idea for the U.S. to take owners...
Intercepted: The Civil and Proxy War Reignites in Syria
Joe Biden has just weeks left in his presidency. Israel’s genocidal war against Gaza is continuing at full force. In Lebanon, the so-called ceasefire...
Intercepted: Lebanon's "Ceasefire" Deal With Israel, and What It Means for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech on Tuesday encouraging his ministers to accept a ceasefire dea...
What Trump’s Second Term Could Mean for the Middle East
On this week's Deconstructed, the Drop Site News team gathered to discuss what we know about how Donald Trump might handle Israel and what that will m...
Lever Time: Will The Cheneys Win Or Lose The Election For Dems?
We're sharing a special bonus episode of The Lever's flagship podcast, Lever Time, founder David Sirota and award-winning screenwriter and director Ad...
Introducing Master Plan: Legalizing Corruption
This week we’re sharing an excerpt of the first episode of The Lever's new investigative series Master Plan, which was recently named a must-listen by...
Project 2025 Roots Date Back Half a Century
More than 50 years ago, lawyer Lewis Powell penned a letter to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arguing that the American business community must take pol...
REBROADCAST PLUS Price Controls: An Inflation Solution That Doesn’t Screw Workers
On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a speech in North Carolina outlining her economic platform, including a federal ban on price gouging...
Honduras, 15 Years After the Coup: An Interview With Ousted President Manuel Zelaya
On June 28, 2009, democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a military coup. In response to Zelaya's push for a poll to ga...
Trump, Vance, and the New Right at the RNC
On Thursday evening, Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States. As he accepted the nominatio...
Why Biden's Still In: Insights From Democratic Insider Dmitri Mehlhorn
Dmitri Mehlhorn is among the most powerful Democratic funders and operatives working inside what can roughly be called the party’s establishment. He’s...
The Venezuelan Perspective
At the end of July, Venezuelans head to the polls to elect a new president, with Nicolás Maduro seeking another six-year term. This week on Deconstruc...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Caught on Secret Audio
In a conversation he didn’t know was being recorded, embattled Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito shared his private belief that his movement’s battle...
The Silence Around Covid Vaccine Injuries
Canada has a vaccine injury support program that has paid out more than CA$11 million to claimants; Ross Wightman was among its first recipients. This...
Let’s Check In on AIPAC’s Assault on the Squad
In the weeks after October 7, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee took aim at members of Congress who expressed vocal opposition to Israel’s...
“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza
“There were kids in the ICU that had bullet wounds to the chest or bullet wounds to the head,” Dr. Mohammed "Adeel" Khaleel recounts the harrowing sce...
"Lever Time": Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated in the Democratic Party
Today, we’re sharing the re-launch of The Lever’s flagship podcast Lever Time. In this week’s episode, David Sirota and senior podcast producer Arjun...
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 jo...
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 feelin...
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 i...
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...
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 s...
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...
Fatal Neutrality: Lumumba, the CIA, and the Cold War
In 1960, the Congo gained independence from Belgium. Patrice Lumumba was elected prime minister and Joseph Kasavubu president. Within a year, Lumumba...
Life Inside the Brutal U.S. Prison That Awaits Julian Assange
Starting Tuesday, a U.K. court will review Julian Assange’s appeal against extradition to the United States. At the center of the extradition controve...
“America’s Fair-Haired Boy,” Notorious Mass Murderer, on Brink of Indonesian Presidency
Gen. Prabowo Subianto, who has expressed a desire to rule the country as a fascist, declared victory Wednesday in Indonesia's presidential election. T...
No University Left Standing in Gaza
Within the first 100 days of its war on Gaza, the Israeli military systematically destroyed every single university on the strip. International human...
The Case for Open Borders
Amid ongoing congressional negotiations for a new immigration bill, a bipartisan effort is underway to deter migration through measures such as immedi...
Pakistan Ambassador Opens Up
This week on Deconstructed, Munir Akram, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, joins Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain to discuss a wide array of t...
BONUS: Narco Gangs Launch Rebellion In Ecuador
Today we're sharing an episode from Counter Points, where Ryan Grim speaks to Guillaume Long, who served as Ecuador's foreign minister under former Pr...
The Jewish Community Rupture Over Israel–Palestine
This week on Deconstructed, Ryan Grim speaks to the filmmakers behind “Israelism,” a new documentary that takes a narrative look at the unique relatio...
No Safe Place in Gaza
Humanitarian aid into Gaza faces "near insurmountable challenges,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wedne...
“Lever Time” Presents: Artificial Intelligence Is Denying Americans Health Care
Today, we’re sharing an episode of the podcast “Lever Time” from our friends at the reader-supported investigative news outlet The Lever. On this week...
“The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War
More than 18,600 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s latest wave of attacks began just over two months ago, following the October 7 Hamas a...
“The Squad,” Part 2: From Obama to Bernie, a Crisis and a Crossroads
The 2008 economic crisis changed the world. In the United States, the meager response by Barack Obama and the Democratic Party produced a recovery tha...
“The Squad,” Part 1: The Rise and (First) Fall of Bernie
When Bernie Sanders launched his first presidential campaign in early 2015, the political world could not have been more different than it is today. H...
Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim On The Squad
Ryan Grim has a new book out called "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution." This week on Deconstructed, Grim's "Breaking Points" co-h...
Who Was Napoleon’s Wife, Joséphine Bonaparte?
This week, theaters around the country will begin to screen “Napoleon,” a historical drama film based on the story of Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, st...
Shawn Fain on How the UAW Whipped the Big Three
In late October, after a six-week strike, the United Auto Workers reached a historic contract deal with the big three Detroit automakers. This week, a...