French Muslims Grapple With a Republic That Codified Their Marginalization
“These kids you see around, Africans and Arabs, whether people like it or not, they’re French.”
Justice
The War on Immigrants
The Justice Department Singled Out This Man in Expanding Efforts to Strip Citizenship. A Judge Doesn't Think the Case Is Open and Shut.
“This administration is overusing the very extreme measure of denaturalization against Muslim and other minority communities.”
Voices
The Department of Justice Loves Publicizing Arrests of Alleged Terrorists — but Not the White Nationalist Coast Guard Officer
Why didn't Donald Trump’s Justice Department say anything when it arrested this alleged terrorist?
Voices
Beyond the Rising Tide: Reparations for Slavery Have to Be More Than a Symbol
The problem isn’t that universal programs can’t close the racial wealth gap. It’s that the programs backed by the Democratic Party don’t go far enough.
How the Federal Government Undermines Prison Education
Access to education behind bars lowers the odds of recidivism by 48 percent. So why is there still a ban on Pell Grants for prisoners?
The End of Roe
What Brett Kavanaugh’s Dishonest Anti-Abortion Dissent Reveals About His Supreme Court Agenda
Kavanaugh's first Supreme Court dissent is a mess of omissions and misrepresentations.
Locked Inside a Freezing Federal Jail, They United to Protest Their Conditions — Only to Face Reprisals
In some units where incarcerated people protested, the toilets were shut off — leaving them sleeping next to their own feces.
Jair Bolsonaro Praised the Genocide of Indigenous People. Now He’s Emboldening Attackers of Brazil’s Amazonian Communities.
Invasions of Indigenous territories by land grabbers have spiked since Bolsonaro took office and immediately rolled back federal protections.
Voices
Amazon Pullout Shows What Anti-Capitalist Organizing and Leftist Politicians Can Do
New York's old Democratic order — in the vein of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio — backed Amazon's move, while a new crop of social democrats bucked it.
The War on Immigrants
Immigrant Rights Groups Trash Border Deal: “Immigrant Families Will Pay the Price”
Democrats had pushed for cuts to ICE's detention budget, but ceded that demand in the interest of moving negotiations forward.