Here Are 2017’s Best Protest Posters
Jessica Hill/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The year is nearly over, and politically speaking, it hasn’t been pretty. Plenty of outrageous, terrifying, shameful things have happened since Donald Trump took office, but from the very first day of his presidency, a massive contingent of the nation has taken to the…
Here Are the Biggest Legal Challenges Facing Trump’s Agenda in 2018
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s lawyers have had quite the year. Between lawsuits claiming the president illegally accepted gifts from foreign governments and a defamation case from an Apprentice alumna who has accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, the White House legal team has faced one…
Trump Is Going After Immigrants Without Criminal Records In a Big Way
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The full reality of President Trump’s bombastic promises on illegal immigration is finally taking shape, and the picture is, unsurprisingly, bleak. After several reports pointing toward an increasing trend of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeting undocumented immigrants with no criminal background or low-level offenses—the…
The Trump Administration Set a Record-Low Refugee Cap. Now It’s Falling Far Short of It.
Refugees arrive in Greece last month. The Trump administration has slashed the number of refugees the United States will accept.Angelos Tzortzinis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In September, President Donald Trump cut the annual limit on the number of refugees who can come to the United States from 110,000 to…
Escaping a Wildfire and Fighting to Stay Here
Luis, a DACA-recipient, lost his home when the Tubbs Fire swept through Santa Rosa on October 8th. Brian L. Frank When he first smelled smoke, Luis just thought a neighbor was having a barbecue. But the scent lingered, and the 25-year-old aspiring neuroscientist soon learned that a forest fire was barreling straight toward his home in…
Jeff Sessions Gives In and Sends Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities
RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images For the first time since September, when a federal judge curtailed the Department of Justice’s power to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions awarded grants on Monday to 36 jurisdictions the agency says are noncompliant with federal immigration authorities. The grants are part of a nearly $1 billion initiative through the Department’s Community Oriented Policing…