Immigrant Bashing Is All About Racism
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What is it that gets so many conservative whites so enraged about immigration? Are they afraid immigrants will take away their jobs? Or do they just not like non-white people very much? Steven Miller, a political science professor at Clemson, decided to test this using…
Trump Says White Supremacist Terror Is Fake News. These Chilling Cases Prove Otherwise.
Suspects in custody in Portland, OR, and Orange County, CABeth Nakamura/The Oregonian/AP; Ken Steinhardt/The Orange County Register/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four days after a homemade bomb blew through the window of a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota, in August 2017, Sebastian Gorka, then a national security aide to President…
Trump Announces New Taxes on TVs and Air Conditioners
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It says something weird that this news is getting only slight attention: President Trump escalated his trade war with China Tuesday, identifying an additional $200 billion in Chinese products that he intends to hit with import tariffs. The move makes good on the president’s threat…
Kavanaugh’s Record Doesn’t Bode Well for Voting Rights
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, his Supreme Court nominee, in the East Room of the White House on Monday.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, could determine how the court rules on cases that shape the future of…
This GOP Congressman Has Begun a Huge Fight Over a Key Environmental Law
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) is a major proponent of reforming the bedrock National Environmental Policy Act.Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A linchpin environmental law is now being scrutinized by…
The Feds Are Locking Up Immigrant Kids—Who Have Committed No Crimes—In Juvie
Migrant children at a temporary shelter in Florida in June.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after reaching the United States and turning himself over to Border Patrol, Alonzo, a 16-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, was invited to speak with a psychologist at the Bristow, Virginia, shelter where…