Appeasement Is Failing: Why Fighting Back Against Trump Is the Only Option
If there’s any lesson so far in Trump’s second term, it’s that playing nice isn’t just bad optics — it’s a losing strategy.
If there’s any lesson so far in Trump’s second term, it’s that playing nice isn’t just bad optics — it’s a losing strategy.
I accompanied one of the students who fled Trump’s crackdown. It gave me clarity on what’s at stake.
To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
“Pitt cannot constitutionally put its thumb on one side of the debate by harassing and chilling the pro-Palestinian students.”
A green card holder, Columbia University protest leader Mohsen Mahdawi faced attacks from pro-Israel activists.
Jonathan Greenblatt falsely accused graduating students and streamer Hasan Piker of spreading antisemitic lies — and called on Trump to stop them.
In a bid to boost Elon Musk’s car company, Trump did a live White House ad and threatened Tesla protesters would “go through hell.”
The Trump administration’s detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk rests on an opinion article she wrote in 2024, her lawyers said in a filing.
The law behind the warrants bars concealment of people in the country illegally, yet the students were legal residents living on campus.
“I wanted to center Palestine,” a Harvard commencement speaker told The Intercept. Read and watch her speech.
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