Two Americas: Anti-ICE Fighters vs. Bootlickers
Elected officials across the country are fighting the federal government’s mass deportation campaign with new laws and funding. But some…
Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion
The order came the same day that the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention…
Proponents of Solitary Confinement Attempt to Stifle Reform
Studies repeatedly find no evidence that solitary makes prisons safer. Prisons that piloted alternative units that separate people from general…
Trump’s Latest Catch-22 for Immigrants
Late last month, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services finalized a new rule broadly expanding the types of public benefits…
No Minority Is Safe From Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine
ICE is specifically targeting immigrant communities of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight ‘Abortion Pollution’
In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, anti–abortion rights groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone…
Disgraced Anti-Sex-Trafficking NGO Gets $244 Million to Rep Migrant Kids
The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women…
NYC Tenants Sue Over Spying Operation in Public Housing
Under Eric Adams, the city and the NYPD attached video surveillance to free internet routers. Plaintiffs allege this violates their…
Louis Brandeis: The Empiricist
At a time when constitutional protections are being knocked down by the Roberts Court, Brandeis’s dissents demonstrate to Sonia Sotomayor,…
ICE Finds New Ways to Expand Detention
The first people to be locked up inside the detention prison will likely be children and pregnant people already in…