The Supreme Court Is Closed, But Immigration Courts Are Still Packing in Dozens of People at a Time
Immigration court in New York CityErik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty An unprecedented joint coalition of immigration judges, immigration attorneys, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees asked Tuesday to “immediately and temporarily close all immigration courts nationwide” in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The courts, run by the Department of Justice, have remained open—even as local…
An Urgent Call to Make Voting Simpler and Fairer: “The Safest Way to Vote Is From Your Home”
Charles Rex Arbogast/AP On a day when four states were scheduled to hold their presidential primary elections, the coronavirus outbreak has threatened a key pillar of our democracy: the right to safely cast a ballot. While Ohio has postponed in-person voting slated for today, three other states—Arizona, Florida, and Illinois—are proceeding, raising concerns among voting…
Good News: The Federal Government Just Made It a Whole Lot Easier to Access Opioid Addiction Treatment
Boston Globe/Getty For the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have to visit clinics for daily doses of opioid addiction medication, social distancing is nearly impossible. But on Tuesday, the federal government eased some of its long-held restrictions in response to the coronavirus. That’s good news, because continual access to two primary treatment medications, buprenorphine…
Jared Kushner Once Controlled a Firm Now Running a Coronavirus Testing Website
Oliver Contreras/AP Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a top player in the White House’s coronavirus deliberations, several years ago controlled a family business that owned a health insurance company that is now marketing a website that aims to direct consumers to coronavirus testing locations. This firm, which is called Oscar, has often been described…
When Your Primary Is in the Midst of a Pandemic
Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images For the last few months, Abby McEntee, a preschool teacher from the Chicago suburb of Western Springs, has spent each of her Saturdays and Sundays crisscrossing Illinois’ 3rd District to knock doors on behalf of Marie Newman, the former marketing executive making her second attempt at unseating Illinois Rep.…
We Shouldn’t Need to Explain Why Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweet Is Wrong. But Here We Are.
Jacquelyn Martin/AP As the coronavirus pandemic continues to grip the world, so does another contagion, this one spread by political profiteers, opportunists, and grandstanders cashing in on a familiar trade. Whenever a bodily virus hits, a cultural virus tags along: the impulse to scapegoat an entire race, ethnicity, or nationality. “They did it” is the…