Donald Trump Backs Off Muslim Ban, But It’s Already Way More Popular Than He Is
An idea that would have been considered fringe in years past has been elevated to the mainstream and now has a life of its own.
An idea that would have been considered fringe in years past has been elevated to the mainstream and now has a life of its own.
Foreign students studying in the U.S. have been thrown into crisis by Trump’s executive order, and the consequences for American schools could be huge.
The Trump administration’s decision to target families and longtime residents for deportation diverts resources from criminal investigations.
Donald Trump campaigned on promises to turn Muslim Americans’ darkest fears into reality. Now, roughly half of American voters have accepted this message of hatred and xenophobia.
In a first, crucial test of whether Democrats would present a united front to defend human rights and civil liberties in the Trump era, they failed.
An internal Homeland Security email suggests that Trump officials are preparing to shift the country’s deportation process into high gear.
Dutch prosecutors seem to have made the extreme nationalist Geert Wilders more popular by putting him on trial for railing against Moroccan immigrants.
Michael Anton was hired onto the National Security Council after writing a series of essays that were criticized for prejudice and were connected to a Nazi-era philosopher, Carl Schmitt.
Four State Department officials who quit in protest in the 1990s advise others to use the powers of the bureaucracy to thwart unwise policies.
Democrats sincere about opposing anti-Muslim bigotry should denounce these ugly attacks on Ellison.
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