As many as 10 people, most of them students, were shot to death today at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. It is the…
MINORITY REBELLION
Some California cities are siding with Trump on immigration, but it won’t make a difference
Donald Trump held a public bashing session of California’s sanctuary policies on Wednesday. The guests of honor were several elected officials from California, who, like…
AMERICAN STORY
Data disproves the idea that Central American immigrants in the US don’t assimilate
The Trump administration has cited a variety of reasons to justify its drive to stop illegal immigration. The latest, as explained by White House chief…
CATCH AND DETAIN
The twisted legal logic behind Trump’s decision to separate immigrant children from parents
The Trump administration said this week it’s prosecuting every immigrant caught entering the US illegally, a policy that will likely result in the separation of…
BAD CONNECTION
Read the email AT&T sent to employees about the $800,000 it paid Trump’s lawyer
Telecom giant AT&T is trying to untangle itself from Michael Cohen’s growing legal troubles. Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer is under federal investigation for potential…
SWISS CHEESE ENFORCEMENT
Immigrants’ chances of getting arrested depend on where they live in the US
Donald Trump has been extremely effective at enforcing immigration laws—but only in some parts of the US. Arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have risen…
BLUFF & BLUSTER
How Trump’s dramatic trade threats stacked up to reality
Donald Trump has turned international trade into a sit-on-the-edge-your-seat affair. On Monday, he kept US allies guessing on what he would do on steel tariffs…
PROTEST MARCH
The truth about the immigrant caravan: What it is and why it’s coming to the US
The Trump administration is bracing for the arrival to the US of a caravan of immigrants that has been traveling through Mexico over the past…
ZERO AIM
US immigration lawyers are shifting focus to prosecute people who’ve lived in the US longest
Trump administration officials have said any person in the US illegally should look over their shoulder. But data show the risk is greater for immigrants…
IMAGINE IF YOU CAN
“What if the ban were against Israelis?” The US Supreme Court’s hypothetical questions on Trump’s travel ban
The best way to sort out the tricky legal issues around Donald Trump’s travel ban might be through hypotheticals. At least that was the approach…
TOLD YOU SO
Economists are warning Donald Trump about tariffs with a letter from the 1930s
One unintended consequence of Donald Trump’s protectionist impulses is that the dry details of trade policy history are now trendy. So much so that the…
ORANGE WAVE
The National School Walkout is students’ most ambitious gun violence protest yet
Students across the US are again abandoning their classrooms Friday (April 20) to protest gun violence as part of the National School Walkout. The nationwide…
