America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment
Stanley Milgram would have understood this morally cretinous moment all too well.
Apr 11, 2025 / Sasha Abramsky
Here’s What the Supreme Court’s Recent Rubber-Stamp Rulings Are All About Here’s What the Supreme Court’s Recent Rubber-Stamp Rulings Are All About
The spate of recent Supreme Court decisions overturning Trump administration losses in the lower courts are all about saving face—and securing power.
Apr 10, 2025 / Elie Mystal
What the Birth of the Sanctuary Movement Teaches Us Today What the Birth of the Sanctuary Movement Teaches Us Today
The birth of the sanctuary movement some 45 years ago can teach us a lot about how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrants.
Apr 10, 2025 / Kyle Paoletta
Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare
The president is using obscure statutes in shocking ways as part of his anti-immigrant witch hunt.
Apr 7, 2025 / Gaby Del Valle
Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy? Is Europe the Last Champion of Liberal Democracy?
At the moment, unfortunately, it seems more likely that Europe will be the last powerful holdout in a world entering a new political Dark Age.
Apr 4, 2025 / John Feffer
How Trump Is Outsourcing His Mass Deportation Agenda How Trump Is Outsourcing His Mass Deportation Agenda
The government is enlisting—or coercing—other countries into joining its efforts to purge immigrants from the United States.
Apr 2, 2025 / Felipe de la Hoz
The US Is Now in the Human-Trafficking Business The US Is Now in the Human-Trafficking Business
The Trump administration spent $6 million to knowingly disappear hundreds of people into a foreign prison where they are being made to work, without pay, in torturous conditions. ...
Apr 1, 2025 / Andrew Kornfeld and Esul Burton
Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror
The antidemocratic policies put in place after 9/11 have come home to roost.
Apr 1, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg
Will You Put Your Body On the Line to Defend and Support Your Neighbors? Will You Put Your Body On the Line to Defend and Support Your Neighbors?
A new Solidarity Pledge organized by civil rights and social justice organizations invites people to stand up for immigrant communities.
Apr 1, 2025 / Theo Oshiro, Andrew Friedman, and Greisa Martinez Rosas
With ICE Out of Control, How Can the US Cohost the 2026 World Cup? With ICE Out of Control, How Can the US Cohost the 2026 World Cup?
The country has proven itself incapable of not abducting and imprisoning people entering it—boycotting US matches avoids putting teams, their families, and fans in danger.
Mar 31, 2025 / Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin