Portside

Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

A busy summer

A modern tale in the spirit of Jonathan Swift

The real animal is subsumed by the fantasy, in the way that the real human lives under threat—every man, woman and child under the gun of a government carried away with its own gleeful cruelty—become nameless statistics or worse, fodder for photo-ops

President’s supporters are gleeful but Everglades jail could prove to be a humanitarian and environmental tragedy

The most dangerous thing about Alligator Alcatraz isn’t the alligators. It’s the message...