POTUS

Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook Is Open on the Table. Read It.

The path from democracy is much shorter than the path to it. And we are sprinting down it.

Courts

Bodycams Caught ICE Agents Calling Latinos “Tonks.” The Supreme Court Said That’s Fine.

Bodycams Caught ICE Agents Calling Latinos "Tonks." The Supreme Court Said That's Fine.

Crime

The Data Has Been Saying This for a Century. Certain People Just Weren’t Listening.

For decades, the data has told us that immigrants are not a threat to public safety. Yet, the political class continues to enforce policies based on a refusal to read…

Money

Trump’s $200 Spy Rule Crushed Border Communities to Catch Ghosts

When the Trump administration wanted to look tough on cartels, it didn't go after the Sinaloa cartel's bank accounts in the Caymans. It went after Evangelina Ornelas's grocery store in…

Courts

The Right Found Its Perfect Horror Story. The System It Ignores Is the Real One.

A pharmaceutical delivery driver walks into the home of a wheelchair-bound woman in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and sexually assaults her. Qaisar Ali, 39, of Brockton, now faces charges including assault…

Courts

Trump’s New Birthright Citizenship Order Is a Constitutional Contempt Play

The White House is serving up a staler helping of the legal arguments the Roberts court already refused to swallow.

Crime

Every System Failed at Once in Philadelphia, and a Man Ended Up Dead on the Pavement

A British national from Essex, identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a member of a transnational criminal organization, was shot dead in Philadelphia after allegedly attempting to defraud…