The legal miasma promises to set the tone for the rest of the country’s midterm legal dramas.
Race & Ethnicity
Posted inPolitics
What Voter Suppression Looks Like in Practice
Poll observers in Tennessee recorded dozens of incident reports in their primary, a few months before this year’s highly contested midterm elections.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, died by suicide after being fitted with a tracking device by ICE. ‘That ankle monitor is what killed him,’ a family friend said.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Gary, Indiana, Is America’s Latest Climate Victim
This community has already faced structural racism and disinvestment. A two-week blackout unleashed a humanitarian disaster.
Posted inTAP
Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
Posted inTechnology
South Carolina: From Slaves to Bots
The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.
Posted inEducation in America
Trump Wants Black People Barred From Med School
By targeting medical schools for prioritizing diversity, the Trump administration insists on a century-old belief that Black people are unequipped to practice medicine.
Posted inLaw and Justice
No Minority Is Safe From Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine
ICE is specifically targeting immigrant communities of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
Posted inLaw and Justice
NYC Tenants Sue Over Spying Operation in Public Housing
Under Eric Adams, the city and the NYPD attached video surveillance to free internet routers. Plaintiffs allege this violates their civil liberties.
Posted inPolitics
El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.