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EDITOR’S NOTE
The Year in Review

In anticipation of the year’s end, we sifted through the thousands of stories The Intercept published in 2019 to find pieces that not only exemplify our mission but that provide a rare window into the dark, bizarre, and sometimes threatening world around us.

Scrolling through the past year’s stories, you’ll see Naomi Klein visiting a fire-ravaged California, our reporters profiling immigrants held in solitary confinement and a humanitarian border activist facing 20 years in prison, and a special investigation into the Iran Cables — an unprecedented leak of internal intelligence documents that reveal the extent of Iran’s grip on Iraq. 

You’ll also find an explosive series of articles revealing corruption at the top of Brazil’s Car Wash task force, which sent ex-president Lula to prison. We’ve compiled a sampling of our biggest political, tech, and criminal justice stories, and there's more to come, like arresting examples of our visual journalism and podcast episodes.


Betsy Reed
Editor-in-Chief
Year in Review 2019
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A look back at The Intercept’s must-read stories from 2019.

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Mike Bloomberg Exploited Prison Labor to Make 2020 Presidential Campaign Phone Calls
John Washington

The Bloomberg campaign said it ended the arrangement after learning of the prison call centers from an Intercept inquiry.

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Merry Christmas, America! Let’s Remember the Children Who Live in Fear of Our Killer Drones.
Elise Swain, Jon Schwarz

This Christmas, let’s tell the truth about America’s killer drones and the new form of terror they bring to children around the world.

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How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
Max Rivlin-Nadler

ICE emails provide a rare inside look at the agency’s use of Facebook and commercial data brokers to track down an immigrant in California.

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A Small Chicago Firm Has Quietly Funded Nearly Two Dozen Anti-Union Lawsuits
Rachel M. Cohen

In a court filing, Jonathan Mitchell identified Juris Capital as the backer of a wave of lawsuits he’s pursued following the Supreme Court’s Janus ruling.

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Don’t Forget That Saudi Arabia Is Imprisoning and Torturing Women’s Rights Activist Loujain al-Hathloul
Mehdi Hasan

Loujain al-Hathloul fought for women to be able to drive in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom arrested her and is torturing her in a dark dungeon in Riyadh.

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Buttigieg Blames Private Equity Firms for Surprise Billing. One of His Bundlers, a Blackstone Exec, Is Linked to the Problem.
Akela Lacy

Blackstone, a private equity firm, owns a hospital staffing company involved in manufacturing surprise billing schemes, which Buttigieg has pledged to ban.

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Corbyn Lost in the U.K. and Sanders’s Path Is Daunting at Home. Here’s a Case for Why We Still Need Socialism.
Elise Swain

Nathan Robinson’s new book “Why You Should Be a Socialist” lays out a case for socialism based on outrage at our intolerable current condition.

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Inside the Plot to Murder Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres
Danielle Mackey, Chiara Eisner

Text and WhatsApp messages show that the conspiracy against Berta Cáceres reached the highest ranks of the company whose dam she had been protesting.

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The Defenders of the Wine Cave Are Missing the Point
Ryan Grim, Jon Schwarz

Legal or not, most Americans think that the campaign finance system is inherently flawed and needs to be rebuilt.

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