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Florida's Secretive Immigration Detention Center, Explained

From the Left / ACLU /

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a new immigration detention facility has appeared almost overnight. It's the latest example of the Trump administration's extreme approach to immigration enforcement, and it's drawing significant, well-deserved outrage.

In just eight days, a former airstrip was converted into a large-scale immigration detention...Read more

Federal law enforcement officers patrol on the National Mall on Aug. 12, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/TNS)

Let's Fight Crime, Not Each Other

From the Left / Clarence Page /

When your only tool is a hammer, psychiatrist Abraham Maslow famously observed, all problems begin to look like nails.

That nugget of wisdom comes to mind as President Trump implements his federal takeover of the District of Columbia’s police force and the deployment of 800 National Guard, a big hammer against local crime problems in a city ...Read more

Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order: What Happens Next

From the Left / ACLU /

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to end the constitutionally guaranteed right to birthright citizenship. The American Civil Liberties Union and our partners swiftly sued to block that cruel and lawless action, as did other groups of plaintiffs around the country.

The Trump administration ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Al Green of Texas speaks during a press conference at the Painters District Council No. 30 union hall on Aug. 5, 2025, in Aurora, Illinois. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, right, and a large group of Texas Democrats gathered to address the remapping of districts in Texas. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Time for Democrats to Get Serious About Their Political Future

From the Left / Clarence Page /

Gee, what’s happened to the “silly season" of U.S. politics?

That’s what many of us in the daily journalism trade used to call the periods, usually in late summer or near holidays, when news media put an unusually intense focus on lighthearted or frivolous stories due to a shortage of more serious news.

We currently have no such shortage...Read more

Fort Dix To Hold Thousands as Trump Militarizes Detention System

From the Left / ACLU /

As announced in a letter from the Department of Defense, the Trump administration plans to use Fort Dix, the U.S. Army post that is part of the triservice Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, to detain immigrants. The South Jersey military base will hold up to 3,000 beds for use by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

With this expansion to Fort...Read more

A protester holds a sign outside the White House demanding the release to all files related to Jeffrey Epstein in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2025. President Donald Trump's administration said it would seek the release of grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein, as the president sought to dispel lingering political fallout over his team's handling of the late financier's sex trafficking case.  (Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Trump Drives Wedges Into His Own Movement

From the Left / Clarence Page /

Remember when then-candidate Donald Trump said during an Iowa campaign rally in 2016 that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and...Read more

Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains

From the Left / Dick Polman /

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more

Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.

From the Left / Ruth Marcus /

WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more

 

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