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. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

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episode 21: Is This Trump’s Reichstag Fire Moment?


President Trump has seized on the nationwide protest movement that followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer to advance his most authoritarian political instincts. This week he threatened to deploy the military to ...


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 June 4, 2020  32m
 
 

episode 22: Is It Time To Defund the Police?


In the wake of global protests over the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a movement to redirect public resources away from traditional policing and towards community-oriented systems of public safety has taken hold around the co...


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 June 11, 2020  29m
 
 

episode 23: Let’s Defund The Military, Too


The United States has by far the world’s largest military budget, accounting for 15% of all federal spending, and nearly half of all discretionary spending. Presidents of both parties have repeatedly failed to bring the Pentagon budget under control. S...


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 June 18, 2020  34m
 
 

episode 24: The Rise of the Left (with Mondaire Jones)


The New York congressional candidate discusses his primary victory and what it means for the American left.


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 June 25, 2020  35m
 
 

episode 25: Can We Build a Politics of Hope?


Deep down, are humans really selfish, brutal, and cruel? For much of the last century the most famous experiments in social science, from the Stanford prison experiment to the Stanley Milgram electric shock study have purported to prove that we all hav...


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 July 2, 2020  47m
 
 

episode 26: The Trump Child Abuse Scandal


It’s been two years since the peak of public outcry over the Trump administration’s decision to begin separating the children of unauthorized migrant families from their parents. Yet the massive crisis that policy spawned remains arguably the darkest c...


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 July 9, 2020  38m