We spoke to Saturday Night Live’s Sarah Sherman about doing body horror at a time of real horrors, the hope at the heart of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, and her emergence as a top local canvasser for Bernie Sanders’s last presidential run.
A system of concentration camps is being built and it's time the nation reckon with this monstrosity before any more people are killed. ICE detention camps now threaten to become a central instrument of repression under the Trump administration.
Reader Comments: No Kings, No War - Largest Demonstrations in U.S. History; Treason in the Futures Markets; ICE in Airports - What Could Go Wrong - Everything; Filipino & Women Labor Leaders in Farmworkers Movement; Iran War Global Implications;
The future of protesting in the US may have been decided in a cramped courtroom in Fort Worth, Texas, last week. An appeal is coming, but the conviction of several protesters on charges of providing “material support” for terrorism is a chilling sign
Although the congressional elections in November 2026 may push MAGA back for a while, the longer-range prognosis for US democracy depends primarily on the grassroots mobilization of the widest possible spectrum of the American population.
Women who wake up every morning unsure when they will see their families again. Women who hold each other up, because sometimes it is the only support we have. Pregnancy becomes a higher risk here. Here are the stories of women in ICE detention.
Reader Comments: U.S.-Israel War on Iran; Bombing Creates Toxic Chemical Warfare Black Rain Over Tehran; Kristi Noem Is Out; More on New Wave of Protest Music; Conversation with Professor Angela Davis in New York; Lots of Cartoons;
The Trump administration’s crackdown on Somalis in Minnesota ignores a longer history: decades of US intervention that helped produce the violence and displacement Somalis fled.
Somali immigrants in the U.S. haven’t just fled violence—they’ve fled climate catastrophes that the U.S. has helped create. Missing from Trump's hate filled discourse is the pervasive role of climate change in people’s decisions to move from Somalia
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
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