War on Drugs
The promise and limits of Trump’s psychedelic therapy order
The hugely popular, politically eclectic podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election, says he recently sent the president information about ibogaine, a psychedelic whose boosters portray it as an…
FBI goes after whistleblower who helped unmask the ‘Fort Bragg Cartel’
Courtney Williams never made her gripes with the military a secret. In the mid-2010s, she filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) about her time as a civilian staffer at Fort…
Colorado becomes first state to protect defendants against faulty roadside drug tests
Colorado recently enacted a law protecting criminal defendants arrested due to roadside tests for drugs, becoming the first state in the country to recognize widespread instances of wrongful arrests due to police…
DOJ drops 23,000 cases to make room for Trump’s immigration crackdown
In the first six months of President Donald Trump's second term, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has closed over 23,000 criminal cases while shifting resources to immigration, according to a new ProPublica analysis. The…
Donald Trump and Markwayne Mullin insist politics should prevail over principle
Some Supreme Court justices are so eager to demonstrate their independence, President Donald Trump complained last week, that they "openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them." A few days later, Sen.…
DOJ seeks to drop charges against officers in Breonna Taylor warrant case
Louisville, Kentucky, Detective Joshua Jaynes lied when he applied for the March 2020 warrant that resulted in Breonna Taylor's death. Then he lied about his lies. Sgt. Kyle Meany, the supervisor who approved the warrant…
Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘death squads’ killed thousands of Filipinos. Now he awaits his fate at The Hague.
"Her dream was to go to school," Lydjay Acopio says of her daughter Myca, speaking in her native Tagalog. "When my eldest son was in first grade, she helped him put on his uniform. But she never got a chance to…
Andrew Kent on the Alien Enemies Act
A prison guard transfers Alien Enemies Act deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Mar. 16, 2025 (El Salvador Presidential Press Office) …
‘Collateral Damage’ podcast details drug war tragedies
Collateral Damage, a new podcast at The Intercept hosted by criminal justice reporter Radley Balko, examines "the half-century-long war on drugs, its enduring ripple effects, and the devastating consequences of building…
Markwayne Mullin’s history of condoning murder and resisting transparency makes him ill-suited to run DHS
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R–Okla.), President Donald Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of homeland security, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today as part…
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