The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture The Trump Administration Is Reviving Institutionalized Torture
The ambient threat of torture is a form of social control, encouraging everyone else to comply with and bow down before the regime.
Jul 17, 2025 / Rebecca Gordon
Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid? Why Did This Farmworker Die in an Immigration Raid?
With Trump and Stephen Miller cheering on ICE’s terror tactics, Jaime Alanis Garcia’s fatal fall in the raid on Glass House Farms was the most recent example of a death foretold.
Jul 17, 2025 / David Bacon
Trump’s California Stunt Is One More Step Toward Authoritarianism Trump’s California Stunt Is One More Step Toward Authoritarianism
Here we are, once again learning that the restraints Americans could rely upon in the past are fast disappearing.
Jul 11, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg
ICE Is Following the Lead of Anti-Palestinian Doxxing Groups ICE Is Following the Lead of Anti-Palestinian Doxxing Groups
Society / July 11, 2025 ICE Is Following the Lead of Anti-Palestinian Doxxing Groups The agency’s brutal racial profiling has drawn its latest targets from the McCarthyit…
Jul 11, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great Fake Patriots Are Destroying Everything That Made America Great
By attacking equality of citizenship, MAGA is smashing the foundations of national pride.
Jul 4, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s floundering over immigration leaves it without an opposition strategy.
Jul 1, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
The Abominable Sadism of “Alligator Auschwitz” The Abominable Sadism of “Alligator Auschwitz”
Slated to open this week, Florida’s new detention center will have more than a little in common with a Nazi concentration camp.
Jun 30, 2025 / Joan Walsh
The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is a 5-Alarm Catastrophe
In Trump v. CASA, the court hands the president yet more unaccountable authority—and yanks us into a neo-Confederate legal nightmare.
Jun 27, 2025 / Elie Mystal