After Columbia University’s craven and apparently futile acceptance of all the conditions Donald Trump set before it to even start a conversation about getting its federal funding back, Harvard’s recent refusal to let the federal government insinuate itself into the core functions of higher education was a welcomed moment we should all celebrate. It is...
“This is, to us, an unprecedented opportunity,” the executive chairman of GEO Group said shortly after the election. As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also revising and expanding contracts with private prison facilities. Prison companies can earn millions from the federal government...
A trio of Democratic senators on Thursday demanded answers from embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth regarding U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, which have reportedly killed scores of civilians including numerous women and children since last month. “We write to you concerning reports that U.S. strikes against the Houthis at the Ras Isa fuel terminal in Yemen...
Over the last couple of weeks, even as tariffs have wreaked havoc on markets around the world, President Donald Trump and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have repeatedly teased the notion of slapping hefty tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals. Lutnick has said these are likely to be introduced before the summer. Trump’s rationale for placing tariffs...
“They just look at you like you’re nothing,” said a housekeeper from the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Buffalo, New York. Sitting with me for a conversation in her East Side apartment, the housekeeper, who requested not to be named due to fear of retaliation, spoke of slashed hours and stagnant pay, arduous and unfair...
The administration says that it is restoring student visa records while it drafts a new policy to allow terminations. The Trump administration is walking back visa record terminations for thousands of students across the U.S. after suffering numerous losses in court and admitting last week that officials do not have the authority to terminate students’...
On Friday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X that the FBI had arrested a state judge in Wisconsin, allegedly over her efforts to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents out of her courtroom while she was adjudicating a case involving an immigrant they were targeting. Patel bragged about the arrest on social...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, concerns a proposed 88-mile railroad that...
A new report from human rights experts urges the United Nations to condemn the “evaporation of fundamental rights” in the United States, where the Trump administration is using high-tech surveillance tools and a nebulous “anti-terrorism” legal framework that has ballooned since 9/11 to weaponize law enforcement against social movements that challenge state power. While the...
ActBlue said that Trump’s order was his latest move to “stamp out all political, electoral and ideological opposition.” President Donald Trump has directed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s primary fundraising platform, just months before the 2025 election cycle, in which numerous congressional seats are up for grabs. Trump’s presidential...
Gaza officials have warned of famine spreading throughout the Strip, threatening the lives of millions. The UN’s food agency announced on Friday that it has run out of all food stock in Gaza after eight weeks of Israel’s humanitarian aid blockade, which has left the entire territory on the brink of — or in the...
For almost a decade now, Florida has served as a laboratory for hardline immigration policies that are later exported to other state legislatures across the country. The recent arrest of Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S.-born citizen who was mistakenly detained under an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold in Leon County, shows the threat that...
Tlaib said the detentions, which occurred over the course of just two months, are “outrageously cruel and inhumane.” In just the first two months of President Donald Trump’s term, immigration officials have detained over 200 people, including children and U.S. citizens, at a bridge in Michigan where it is common for people to accidentally cross...
The White House’s anti-DEI decrees are too “vague and confusing” for educators to follow, the judge said. A federal judge has placed a partial injunction on the Trump administration’s attempts to limit schools and universities from enacting policies or curricula promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), finding that an executive order from President Donald Trump...
“Donald Trump has just made an attempt to re-segregate America,” said legislative researcher Allison Chapman. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would further weaken civil rights protections and make it more difficult for plaintiffs to prevail in discrimination cases in areas such as education, housing, health care and public benefits. “With...