<description>&lt;p&gt;Continued campus protests against the Gaza war have sparked heated debates around free speech, academic freedom, and the role of universities in addressing global issues.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This spring saw an outpouring of students demanding that their institutions divest from Israel. Since then, universities have taken sometimes draconian measures to stop protests before they even begin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing, Intercept reporters Akela Lacy and Jonah Valdez, who have been following the protest movements for months, discuss the latest developments and how college administrators are responding.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lacy followed one such case at &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Case Western Reserve University&lt;/a&gt; in Cleveland, where students were hit with severe charges for vandalism. “The school is trying to make an example of student leaders in the movement for Palestine to chill further speech,” Lacy says. “I want to emphasize the fact that these are felony charges for undergraduate students for a nonviolent offense that is putting paint on a building.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Students and organizers who spoke with Valdez anticipate even greater hostility for protesters of every kind once Donald Trump takes office again in January. “This is what a lot of organizers were telling me leading up to Election Day was that there’s going to be so many other attacks on the rights of many other people," he says, "whether it’s reproductive rights, rights of trans people, LGBTQ community at large, rights of immigrants, all on top of the ongoing genocide and occupation of Palestine.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To hear more about the chilling effects on free speech and protest, listen to this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Intercept: &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;"Class Struggle"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Intercept: &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/ucsf-medical-palestine-speech/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;"No Room for Emergency"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Intercept: &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/02/gaza-student-protest-campus-rust-belt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;"100 Days in Appalachia" &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

On The Intercept Briefing, we discuss college crackdowns on Palestine solidarity protests and the chilling effect on free speech. 

Continued campus protests against the Gaza war have sparked heated debates around free speech, academic freedom, and the role of universities in addressing global issues.&nbsp;This spring saw an outpouring of students demanding that their institutions divest from Israel. Since then, universities have taken sometimes draconian measures to stop protests before they even begin.On this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing, Intercept reporters Akela Lacy and Jonah Valdez, who have been following the protest movements for months, discuss the latest developments and how college administrators are responding.&nbsp;Lacy followed one such case at <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Case Western Reserve University</a> in Cleveland, where students were hit with severe charges for vandalism. “The school is trying to make an example of student leaders in the movement for Palestine to chill further speech,” Lacy says. “I want to emphasize the fact that these are felony charges for undergraduate students for a nonviolent offense that is putting paint on a building.”Students and organizers who spoke with Valdez anticipate even greater hostility for protesters of every kind once Donald Trump takes office again in January. “This is what a lot of organizers were telling me leading up to Election Day was that there’s going to be so many other attacks on the rights of many other people," he says, "whether it’s reproductive rights, rights of trans people, LGBTQ community at large, rights of immigrants, all on top of the ongoing genocide and occupation of Palestine.”To hear more about the chilling effects on free speech and protest, listen to this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. The Intercept: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"Class Struggle"</a>The Intercept: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/ucsf-medical-palestine-speech/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"No Room for Emergency"</a>The Intercept: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/06/02/gaza-student-protest-campus-rust-belt/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">"100 Days in Appalachia" </a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The “Palestine Exception”

<description>&lt;p&gt;As the clock winds down on the Biden presidency, Democrats have a limited window to act. Come January 20, Republicans will control the executive branch and both houses of Congress.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On this week's episode of The Intercept Briefing, &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/14/trump-transition-republican-trifecta-progressives/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa.&lt;/a&gt;, acknowledges the need for swift action, particularly on the war in Gaza, prison pardons, and immigration. “I’ve been on calls with advocacy groups around immigration,” she says.&amp;nbsp;President-elect Donald Trump's promises to conduct mass deportation are “an imminent threat.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One tactic she’s employing to drive home the urgency is bringing Dreamers and their stories to meetings. “The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, closest to the policy solutions. That is not just a cute saying," Lee says. "It is, I would say, a very lifesaving way of thinking about the policies and the solutions that we have for the very real problems that we face. We can't keep icing out the people who live it.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But she is also planning beyond the next eight weeks and is determined to fight the Trump administration. “When you're playing, it's Friday night football, it's raining out, you should not leave that field and your jerseys white. You gotta get dirty,” she says. “Not a single voter wants to see us looking pristine when we're in the fight for our life right now.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To hear more about how Lee and her colleagues on the left are planning to handle the next four years, listen to this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., discusses Biden’s lame-duck session and erecting barriers to Trump’s agenda on The Intercept Briefing podcast.

As the clock winds down on the Biden presidency, Democrats have a limited window to act. Come January 20, Republicans will control the executive branch and both houses of Congress.On this week's episode of The Intercept Briefing, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/14/trump-transition-republican-trifecta-progressives/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa.</a>, acknowledges the need for swift action, particularly on the war in Gaza, prison pardons, and immigration. “I’ve been on calls with advocacy groups around immigration,” she says.&nbsp;President-elect Donald Trump's promises to conduct mass deportation are “an imminent threat.”&nbsp;One tactic she’s employing to drive home the urgency is bringing Dreamers and their stories to meetings. “The people closest to the pain should be closest to the power, closest to the policy solutions. That is not just a cute saying," Lee says. "It is, I would say, a very lifesaving way of thinking about the policies and the solutions that we have for the very real problems that we face. We can't keep icing out the people who live it.”But she is also planning beyond the next eight weeks and is determined to fight the Trump administration. “When you're playing, it's Friday night football, it's raining out, you should not leave that field and your jerseys white. You gotta get dirty,” she says. “Not a single voter wants to see us looking pristine when we're in the fight for our life right now.”To hear more about how Lee and her colleagues on the left are planning to handle the next four years, listen to this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Rep. Summer Lee on the Fight of Our Lives

<description>&lt;p&gt;In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Democrats and those on the left are grappling with what comes next.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On The Intercept Briefing podcast this week, columnist &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/trump-harris-election-results-action/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Natasha Lennard&lt;/a&gt; critiques the Democratic Party. “You can’t be both at once: You can’t be the party of Wall Street, and you can’t be the party of the working class,” Lennard says. By acquiescing to Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the Democrats failed again “to offer a robust politics that serves the working class."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Facing a second Trump term, Lennard says the way forward is a politics of everyday life and radical action that focuses on empowering grassroots movements and labor organizations. “When we look at what people can [do] — involving people at a local level, building community so that it is truly kind of a form of life to be in this politics, rather than just a donation, rather than just a vote, rather than just canvassing even.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In conversation with Jessica Washington and Jordan Uhl, Lennard emphasizes the importance and resilience of the working class. "Nurses unions, food workers unions. Most of the working class in this country are women. And it is a profoundly multi-racial working class. And we have a working class of care workers. And a service economy. And an increasingly growing care economy," she says. "That needs investing in. That needs support. That needs building."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To hear more about the future of progressive politics, listen to this week's episode of The Intercept Briefing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In the face of a second Trump term, the left must cultivate a politics of everyday life that goes beyond voting, says columnist Natasha Lennard.

In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Democrats and those on the left are grappling with what comes next.On The Intercept Briefing podcast this week, columnist <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/11/06/trump-harris-election-results-action/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Natasha Lennard</a> critiques the Democratic Party. “You can’t be both at once: You can’t be the party of Wall Street, and you can’t be the party of the working class,” Lennard says. By acquiescing to Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the Democrats failed again “to offer a robust politics that serves the working class."Facing a second Trump term, Lennard says the way forward is a politics of everyday life and radical action that focuses on empowering grassroots movements and labor organizations. “When we look at what people can [do] — involving people at a local level, building community so that it is truly kind of a form of life to be in this politics, rather than just a donation, rather than just a vote, rather than just canvassing even.”In conversation with Jessica Washington and Jordan Uhl, Lennard emphasizes the importance and resilience of the working class. "Nurses unions, food workers unions. Most of the working class in this country are women. And it is a profoundly multi-racial working class. And we have a working class of care workers. And a service economy. And an increasingly growing care economy," she says. "That needs investing in. That needs support. That needs building."To hear more about the future of progressive politics, listen to this week's episode of The Intercept Briefing. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Radical Action Under Trump

<description>&lt;p&gt;There will be much analysis and innumerable postmortems of what Kamala Harris and her campaign got wrong about the electorate this election.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Already, the trends are becoming clear: She failed to reach Black and Latino men, who flocked to Donald Trump this cycle. She underperformed in cities, typically Democratic strongholds. And she even lagged among younger voters vital to her party’s present and future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What’s behind this dismal showing? One explanation is Harris’s inability to put forth a distinct agenda that would appeal to disaffected Democrats. Instead, she held steady to the policies of President Joe Biden, despite general voter dissatisfaction and anxiety about the economy and the direction of the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“We see Democrats over and over turning to courting this mythical moderate voter,” says senior politics reporter Akela Lacy on this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. “We also see a big failure to account for the rightward shift among young people and figure out how to give young voters a reason to support the Democratic Party.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to understand what Intercept reporters were hearing at the polls in Georgia and Pennsylvania this week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

How the Democrats lost to Trump — again. 

There will be much analysis and innumerable postmortems of what Kamala Harris and her campaign got wrong about the electorate this election.Already, the trends are becoming clear: She failed to reach Black and Latino men, who flocked to Donald Trump this cycle. She underperformed in cities, typically Democratic strongholds. And she even lagged among younger voters vital to her party’s present and future.What’s behind this dismal showing? One explanation is Harris’s inability to put forth a distinct agenda that would appeal to disaffected Democrats. Instead, she held steady to the policies of President Joe Biden, despite general voter dissatisfaction and anxiety about the economy and the direction of the country.“We see Democrats over and over turning to courting this mythical moderate voter,” says senior politics reporter Akela Lacy on this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing. “We also see a big failure to account for the rightward shift among young people and figure out how to give young voters a reason to support the Democratic Party.”Listen to understand what Intercept reporters were hearing at the polls in Georgia and Pennsylvania this week. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Kamala’s Fruitless Pursuit of the Mythical Moderate

<description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to The Intercept Briefing, a new podcast from our newsroom. In our first episode, politics reporters Jessica Washington and Akela Lacy break down The Intercept’s recent &lt;a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;investigation&lt;/a&gt; on how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has shaped U.S. foreign policy, as well as, as well as its record-breaking spending in the 2024 election cycle to unseat members of Congress who are who are insufficiently pro-Israel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'&gt; Hosted on Acast. See &lt;a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'&gt;acast.com/privacy&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress.

Welcome to The Intercept Briefing, a new podcast from our newsroom. In our first episode, politics reporters Jessica Washington and Akela Lacy break down The Intercept’s recent <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aipac-spending-congress-elections-israel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">investigation</a> on how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has shaped U.S. foreign policy, as well as, as well as its record-breaking spending in the 2024 election cycle to unseat members of Congress who are who are insufficiently pro-Israel.&nbsp; <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

How Does AIPAC Shape Washington? We Tracked Every Dollar.

Cut through the noise with The Intercept’s reporters as they tackle the most urgent issues of the moment. The Briefing is a new weekly podcast delivering incisive political analysis and deep investigative reporting, hosted by The Intercept’s journalists and contributors including Jessica Washington, Akela Lacy, and Jordan Uhl. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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