Deconstructed

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

https://theintercept.com/deconstructed/

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 37m. Bisher sind 283 Folge(n) erschienen. Dies ist ein wöchentlich erscheinender Podcast.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 15 hours 8 minutes

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episode 29: Antitrust Makes a Comeback


Last Friday President Biden announced a sweeping executive order aimed at ending what he called a 40-year “experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate more and more power.” Attorney and law professor Zephyr Teachout joins Ryan Grim to discuss t...


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 July 16, 2021  40m
 
 

episode 28: How “The People’s Mayor” Saved Public Power


25 years before he first ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, 31-year-old Dennis Kucinich was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio — at the time, that made him the youngest mayor of a major city in the country. His tenure would be dominated by t...


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 July 2, 2021  47m
 
 

episode 27: Chelsea Manning Meets Ken Klippenstein


Since leaving prison in 2017, former intelligence analyst and whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been busy. She ran unsuccessfully for senate in her home state of Maryland, became a Twitch streamer, and was jailed for contempt after refusing to testify ...


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 June 25, 2021  48m
 
 

episode 26: Joe Manchin Gets Candid With Billionaire Donors in Leaked Audio


The Intercept's Lee Fang obtained audio of the powerful West Virginia senator on a call with the centrist political group No Labels.


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 June 16, 2021  58m
 
 

episode 25: Banishing the Ghosts of the Great Recession


For decades, economic policymakers have viewed full employment as a scourge to be avoided at all costs, betokening as it does the grim spectre of inflation. If his words are to be believed, Joe Biden wants to break with that consensus and aim for full ...


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 June 11, 2021  38m
 
 

episode 24: Race and Taxes


As part of his “Build Back Better” plan, President Biden has promised to “advance racial equity across the American economy.” In her new book, “The Whiteness of Wealth,” Emory law professor Dorothy Brown argues that meaningfully addressing the racial w...


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 June 4, 2021  35m
 
 

episode 23: Losing the Asymmetric War


Republicans in Arizona are hoping to overturn their state’s presidential election result, creating a template that they can apply in Georgia, Wisconsin, and beyond. Meanwhile Mitch McConnell (to no one’s surprise) is making it clear that no Democratic ...


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 May 28, 2021  47m
 
 

episode 22: Life and Death in Occupied Palestine


On May 7, Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem during the evening prayer. Hamas responded a few days later by launching rockets from Gaza into Israel. Israel retaliated with its own strikes, and the violence escalated. Mariam Barg...


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 May 21, 2021  41m
 
 

episode 21: The System That Killed Berta Cáceres


When Berta Cáceres was murdered in 2016, she was the leading environmental activist in Honduras and, arguably, the world. A member of the indigenous Lenca people and the founder of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Peoples of Honduras, or COPINH, C...


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 May 14, 2021  42m
 
 

episode 20: The Deconstructed May Day Special


May Day is the biggest day of the year for the international labour movement, but it passes almost unmentioned each year in the United States. That’s in spite of the fact that the holiday commemorates the workers killed in the Haymarket riot in Chicago...


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 May 7, 2021  44m