ICE killed a Maine father during an operation targeting someone else
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot while driving to work, leaving conflicting federal and eyewitness accounts of why an immigration agent opened fire.
Eruptions of rage in Minneapolis and across the US over the cop murder of...
The reason these other cities are seeing these uprisings in response to the police murder of George Floyd is because each of these cities has it’s own brutal, militarized police force which regularly abuses black and poor people too.
Ohio lawmakers approve most extreme abortion ban in the nation
The bill would ban abortion at six weeks into a woman’s pregnancy.
Trump’s policy agenda is an all-out war on kids
What we’re witnessing at our border is one part of a war against all children – whether by cuts to schools, child nutrition, health care, safe air and water, or family-supporting jobs.
NYT presents social security cuts as ‘solution’ to problem of social security cuts
It’s hard to improve on economist and FAIR contributor Dean Baker’s observation that corporate media’s calls for cuts to programs for the elderly under...
America the unfree
Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.
U.S. Escalates Battle to Keep Guantánamo Force-Feeding Tapes Hidden
A federal judge had given the government until Friday to release footage in which a Syrian detainee was force-fed. The government has now appealed.
Who gets to talk about how police need to change?
A FAIR study of NYT coverage from George Floyd to Tyre Nichols
Justice Department inspector general to investigate DEA program linked to massacres in Mexico
The inquiry stems from stories by ProPublica that showed the DEA’s vetted unit in the country has had a history of leaking sensitive information to drug traffickers.
Killer presidents
From Duterte to Trump, a new crop of populist leaders are reviving a tried and true method of demonstrating leadership – killing people.