ICE Started Its Immigration Raids—But Its Agents Got Turned Away
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Virginia, in October.Steve Helber/AP Immigration and Customs Enforcement began its promised raids on undocumented immigrants on Saturday—but they didn’t get off to a good start. Federal immigration agents tried and failed to raid two New York City homes on Saturday. Officials were…
If Politics Doesn’t Shape Your Beliefs About the Climate Crisis, What Does?
iStock/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Unless you’ve lost your home to a super-charged hurricane, evacuated from wildfire country, or survived some other kind of climate disaster, it’s not too hard to live as if we weren’t in the middle of a planetary crisis. Sure, scientists keep issuing dire warnings,…
Reps. Pressley and Omar Just Clapped Back at Pelosi
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during a forum on Friday, May 3, 2019, at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.Josh Reynolds/AP It’s been a week of escalating tensions between various factions of the House Democratic caucus. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed the influence of four of the House’s most liberal lawmakers—Reps.…
Pence Praises Border Patrol After Visit to Detention Centers in Texas
Vice President Mike Pence at the US Customs and Border Protection station in McAllen, Texas on July 12, 2019. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images Vice President Mike Pence offered praise to Custom and Border Patrol after a visit to two detention centers in Texas Friday, despite witnessing conditions of severe deprivation for…
Today Tennessee Celebrates the First Grand Wizard of the KKK
A bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest is displayed in the Tennessee State Capitol despite attempts at its removal. Photographed in August 2017. Mark Humphrey/AP Tennessee is honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader, confederate general, and Ku Klux Klan leader today, according to a state law that Republican Gov. Bill Lee and his predecessors have…
Where’s the Sweet Spot on the Border?
NBC News Karen Tumulty attended a meeting of the League of United Latin American Citizens last week and came away with a warning: the Latino community is not obsessed with border issues to the exclusion of everything else. More unexpected was an undercurrent of unease here that the Democratic Party, in its revulsion over Trump’s…