Two Years Ago, This Immigration Lawyer Marched on an Airport. Today, He’s Running for State House.
Hassan Ahmad in his law firm in McLean, VirginiaKanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The day after President Donald Trump announced his travel ban two years ago, on January 28, 2017, Hassan Ahmad headed to Dulles International Airport in Virginia hoping to help. A local immigration lawyer, Ahmad says he felt like he had…
Over the Past Five Weeks, Fair-Housing Advocacy Nearly Collapsed
Jitalia17/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During the government shutdown, in which 800,000 federal workers worked without pay or were furloughed for five weeks alongside 1.2 million federal contractors, the Department of Housing and Urban Development was shuttered, with 95 percent of its staff furloughed. The effects reverberated throughout the country. Programs like…
The Best Articles We’ve Read So Far About the MAGA Teens Intimidating Nathan Phillips
KC NOLAND/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A video of a group of white teenagers taunting a Native American man at Friday’s Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC, sent shockwaves across social media as it went viral Saturday afternoon. The clip shows a young man wearing a “Make America Great…
Native American Congresswoman Condemns White Teens Who Taunted an Omaha Elder
Teenaged boys surrounded Nathan Phillips (right) as he sang in Washington, DC, on Friday. KC NOLAND/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Footage of white teenagers taunting a Native American man in Washington, DC, has sparked outrage and prompted a Native American member of Congress to condemn their “display of blatant…
Steve King Was Saying Insanely Racist Things Long Before Republicans Decided Enough Was Enough
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Iowa Rep. Steve King’s openly racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric has finally caught up with him. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to condemn the congressman, with a final vote of 424 to 1. The vote came just a…
Schumer: President Stormed Out of Shutdown Talks in a “Temper Tantrum”
Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump walked out of the latest round of negotiations to end the partial government shutdown after Democratic leaders continued to refuse his demands for funds to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday. Schumer, who along with…