Voices
The World’s Leaders Are Terrible. Let’s Declare Our Independence From All of Them.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that even the best Leaders are Self-Absorbed Prima Donnas, and the rest are seriously Craze-o Lunatics.
Justice
The War on Immigrants
As Trump Announces Mass Immigration Raid, Documents Show How ICE Uses Arrest Quotas
In a past mass raid, an ICE official wrote that his office was “required to have 240 targets.”
2020 Census Form Will Not Include Citizenship Question, Trump Administration Says
The Trump administration admitted defeat, confirming that the 2020 U.S. census will not include a question asking if residents are U.S. citizens.
The War on Immigrants
Amnesty International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights Defenders
A new Amnesty International report details a two-year-long attack on human rights defenders, attorneys, and journalists working along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The War on Immigrants
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Democrats Reject "Staged" Tour of Migrant Detention Facilities
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez resisted efforts by Customs and Border Protection officials to limit her access to migrants detained in El Paso, Texas.
When Brokers Act Badly at Wells Fargo, Women Take the Fall
Ten years of data show stark gender bias in disciplinary actions in the bank’s adviser arm.
Voices
History Has Taught Us That Concentration Camps Should Be Liberated. We Can’t Wait Until 2020.
Few of us have fully considered what we would do if concentration camps were built and operated in our nation, by our government, on our watch, on our dime.
The War on Immigrants
The Trump Administration Is Planning Mass Video Proceedings for Immigrants in Tents on the Border
The Department of Homeland Security appears ready to vastly expand the Migrant Protection Protocols with mass video hearings held in tents presided over by distant judges.
NYPD Added Nearly 2,500 New People to Its Gang Database in the Last Year
The secret gang database maintained by New York police consists almost entirely of brown and black people.
Voices
What the Concentration Camps of Bosnia Can Teach Us About the Abuse of Immigrants on the U.S. Border
I never thought the pattern of abuse and deceit that I saw at Serb-run prison camps in the 1990s would be relevant to America — but it is.