On May 14, in an Alexandria, Virginia, courtroom packed with supporters, Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered that Badar Khan Suri be released from immigration detention. Suri’s supporters included some of his students at Georgetown University,...
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On Sunday, Poland holds its presidential election, largely offering a choice between candidates from the broad right wing of the political spectrum. In the government camp is Rafał Trzaskowski, representing prime minister Donald Tusk’s neoliberal...
The Trump administration’s dramatic and bombastic foreign policy initiatives have gained considerable attention, whether with respect to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the proposed US takeover of Gaza, Canada, Panama, and Greenland, let alone the tariffs “war.”...
President Donald Trump’s UK ambassador, Warren Stephens, holds shares worth hundreds of millions in the key sectors that stand to benefit from last week’s UK-US trade agreement. Stephens played a key role in pushing through...
The armed conflict between India and Pakistan posed a significant threat to the subcontinent. This would have been a war that no country can afford. On May 10, US president Donald Trump reportedly brokered an...
The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece from Robert F. Kennedy Jr and three other Trump administration officials in which they argue in favor of adding work requirements to Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income...
It’s seventy-seven years since the Palestinian Nakba — the catastrophe. Rather than a single point in time, we might think about it as a disaster whose legacies and possible outcomes are still unfolding. In its...
“Autism destroys families. . . . Autism is an individual tragedy. . . . These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a...
On May 12, a New York Times article titled “Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia” inadvertently revealed the truth about the US-led coalition’s failure in Yemen. The piece noted that while the United States...
Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker was detained and interrogated at Chicago O’Hare airport on Sunday after returning from a trip to Paris. Many have taken the incident as a dire indication of the “constitutional and...
“Taxes,” the Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “are what we pay for civilized society.” Ensuring that citizens pay their taxes is thus a matter of public priority. But when people fall behind...
When it comes to poking holes in the GOP’s claims to now be a populist party of the working class, the effort to shred Medicaid in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy...
