Two different accounts from two of the Prospect’s co-founders
Civil Rights in America
Posted inLaw and Justice
DHS Claims Videotaping ICE Raids Is ‘Violence’
The expanded definition has justified assaults on journalists who have documented detentions of immigrants.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
How Bad Slavery Was
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Free Speech Police
Under the Trump administration, every law enforcement agency is an immigration agency. And that often means attempting to deport people for their political beliefs, particularly about Israel.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The ICE Sweeps Are Classic Racial Profiling
Trump’s ‘post-racial’ war on DEI notwithstanding
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Trump’s War on Gay, Lesbian, and Trans People
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is gay and married. Hello?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Does the Supreme Court Really Believe in the Constitution?
States are supposed to lose representatives in the House if they infringe on voting rights. So far the Court has ignored that part of the 14th Amendment.
Posted inWorking in America
AI Surveillance Won’t Stop Theft, but It Might Stop Unions
The loss prevention industry is excited about using technology to combat shoplifting. But workers are getting caught up in the dragnet.
Posted inPolitics
The One Type of Democratic Identity Politics That Will Actually Work
If they want to win back the working class, they need to get in touch with its justifiable anger.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Freedom-Loving Minutemen of Massachusetts Strike Again
Just down the road from Lexington and Concord, American patriots scurried to defend their immigrant neighbors.