Even ICE Agents Hate ICE
Orit Ben-Ezzer via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Customs and Border Protection is in charge of apprehending undocumented immigrants within 100 miles of the border. ICE does the same thing for the interior of the country. But ICE is actually two agencies: the Enforcement and Removal Operations division, or…
Andrés Manuel López Obrador Wins Mexico’s Presidential Election
Jose Pazos/Notimex/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Mexican voters on Sunday elected leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador as their next president, sending a strong rebuke to Enrique Peña Nieto, the country’s current president, whose popularity has tanked amid rampant violence and corruption. Exit polls had López Obrador winning…
Trump: If Democrats Abolish ICE, You’ll “Be Afraid to Walk Out of Your House”
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at Democrats and activists who have called for abolishing or replacing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ICE agents “are the guys that go in and take MS-13, and they take them out,” said Trump, referring…
Just How Evil Is the Evil Dex?
Griffith Park Observatory, where it all started.Photo credit: Kevin Drum/Evil Dex Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bear with me here. This story has a long windup and an uncertain payoff. You have been warned. As you all know, I’m awake all night on Thursdays thanks to my weekly dose of…
60 Years Ago You Couldn’t Stargaze in London. Now You Can.
Nick Ansell/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Slate and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The famed Royal Observatory in Greenwich, United Kingdom, is reopening more than 60 years after London’s smog forced its closure in 1957. The Royal Observatory was…
We Should Try to Understand Even the People Who Hate Us
John Schultz/Quad-City Times via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Sean Illing interviews Robert Wuthnow, author of The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America. The title makes it pretty clear what the book is about, and Illing is annoyed that we’re all once again being…