Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
Whitney Curry Wimbish
Whitney Curry Wimbish is a staff writer at The American Prospect. She previously worked in the Financial Times newsletters division, The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh, and the Herald News in New Jersey. Her work has been published in multiple outlets, including The New York Times, The Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, Music & Literature, North American Review, Sentient, Semafor, and elsewhere. She is a coauthor of The Majority Report’s daily newsletter and publishes short fiction in a range of literary magazines.
Posted inLaw and Justice
ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Immigrants
The agency this month altered more contracts with private prison companies to remove care and protection measures it took advocates years to win.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Noem Attempts to Distract From ICE Execution
A day after one of her ICE agents shot a woman to death in broad daylight, the secretary of homeland security was in Manhattan urging Americans to buy them lunch.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Profiting Off Immigrant Illness, Abuse, and Terror
Staff writer Whitney Wimbish’s Best of 2025
Posted inEducation in America
GOP Forcing Eight Million Student Loan Borrowers Into Repayment
The most affordable of all the federal repayment programs is ending sooner than planned after Trump conspired with red-state attorneys general to kill it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended detention of hundreds of children.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s Health Care Cuts Are a War on Children
GOP funding cuts mean that more children will grow up with the lifelong implications of untreated illnesses.
Posted inPolitics
The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly
Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cup.’
Posted inEconomic Policy
Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Big Tech’s Big New York Gas Pipeline
Gov. Kathy Hochul justified a $1 billion natural gas project by appealing to affordability. But the main reason the state needs the energy is because data centers are hogging it.