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'We want you arrested because we said so' – how ICE's policy on raiding whatever homes it wants violates a basic constitutional right, according to a former federal judge - John E. Jones III, Dickinson College

2 days ago

ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb -- Erica De Bruin, Hamilton College

2 days ago

Repeated government lying, warned Hannah Arendt, makes it impossible for citizens to think and to judge -- Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University

4 days ago

Colorado has emergency domestic violence shelters in only half its counties, leaving survivors without safe housing options -- Kaitlyn M. Sims, University of Denver

2 days ago

Anti-ICE protesters are following same nonviolent playbook used by people in war zones across the world to fight threats to their communities -- Oliver Kaplan, University of Denver

2 days ago

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1 year ago

Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court -- Jean Lantz Reisz, University of Southern California

8 months ago

The Trump administration's anti-immigrant housing policy reflects a long history of xenophobia in public housing -- Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois Chicago

3 months ago

'These people do it naturally': President Trump's views on immigrant farmworkers reflect a long history of how farming has been idealized and practiced in America -- Doug Sackman, University of Puget Sound

5 months ago

How the conservative Federalist Society will affect the Supreme Court for decades to come -- Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Tim Komatsu, UMass Amherst

4 months ago

Pete Hegseth could be investigated for illegal orders by 5 different bodies – but none are likely to lead to charges -- Joshua Kastenberg, University of New Mexico

1 month ago

George Washington's foreign policy was built on respect for other nations and patient consideration of future burdens -- Maurizio Valsania, Università di Torino

21 days ago

Karoline Leavitt's White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell's '1984' -- Laura Beers, American University

1 month ago

As DOJ begins to release Epstein files, his many victims deserve more attention than the powerful men in his 'client list' -- Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, Boise State University

1 month ago

ICE immigration tactics are shocking more Americans as US-Mexico border operations move north -- Kelsey Norman, Rice University and Nicholas R. Micinski, American University

8 days ago

Supreme Court's decision on birthright citizenship will depend on its interpretation of one key phrase -- Morgan Marietta, University of Tennessee

1 month ago

Searching reporters' homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy -- Konstantin Zhukov, Indiana University; Institute for Humane Studies

17 days ago

Trump administration's immigrant detention policy broadly rejected by federal judges -- Cassandra Burke Robertson, Case Western Reserve University

1 month ago

Supreme Court likely to reject limits on concealed carry but uphold bans on gun possession by drug users -- Morgan Marietta, University of Tennessee

2 days ago

Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce -- Ryan D. Griffiths, Syracuse University

3 months ago

'Big' legislative package shifts more of SNAP's costs to states, saving federal dollars but causing fewer Americans to get help paying for food -- Tracy Roof, University of Richmond

5 months ago

Job of homeland security secretary is to adapt almost continuously to pressures from the department, the public and the world at large -- Frank J. Cilluffo, Auburn University

1 year ago

House speaker's refusal to seat Arizona representative is supported by history and law -- Jennifer Selin, Arizona State University

2 months ago

Many wealthy members of Congress are descendants of rich slaveholders − study demonstrates the enduring legacy of slavery -- Neil K R Sehgal, University of Pennsylvania and Ashwini Sehgal, Case Western Reserve University

9 months ago

The disgraceful history of erasing Black cemeteries in the United States -- Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver

3 months ago

Philadelphia continues long history of Black-led protest meetings aimed at fighting racial inequity and prejudice -- Linn Washington, Jr., Temple University

11 months ago

60 years of progress in expanding rights is being rolled back by Trump − a pattern that's all too familiar in US history -- Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College and Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania

11 months ago

Racial profiling by ICE agents mirrors the targeting of Japanese Americans during World War II -- Anna Storti, Duke University

17 days ago

Why rural Maine may back Democrat Graham Platner's populism in the Senate campaign − but not his party -- Nicholas Jacobs, Colby College; Institute for Humane Studies

2 months ago

Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don't realize it -- Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology

11 months ago

Zohran Mamdani's transformative child care plan builds on a history of NYC social innovations -- Simon Black, Brock University

2 months ago

Trump's ability to counter Netanyahu's spoiler tactics in public may have been key to advancing a ceasefire in Gaza -- Boaz Atzili, American University School of International Service

2 months ago

Syria's mass graves: Accounting for the dead and disappeared is crucial for the nation to heal -- Stefan Schmitt, Florida International University

11 months ago

Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict -- Christine Leuenberger, Cornell University

11 months ago

Palestinians have long resisted resettlement – Trump's plan to 'clean out' Gaza won't change that -- Maha Nassar, University of Arizona

11 months ago

Trump's anti-Venezuela actions lack strategy, justifiable targets and legal authorization -- Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

3 months ago

The 'drug threat' that justified the US ouster of Maduro won't be fixed by his arrest -- Eduardo Gamarra, Florida International University

17 days ago

As the Kremlin eyes a thaw with the White House, Russia's pro-war hawks aren't too happy -- Adam Lenton, Wake Forest University

11 months ago

Is a united European voice possible in the age of Trump, Putin and far-right politics? Germany's new leader intends to find out -- Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University

11 months ago

I'm a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here's how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles -- Luke William Hunt, University of Alabama; Institute for Humane Studies

1 day ago

Minnesota raises unprecedented constitutional issues in its lawsuit against Trump administration anti-immigrant deployment -- Andrea Katz, Washington University in St. Louis

5 days ago

Greenland's Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination -- Susan A. Kaplan, Bowdoin College and Genevieve LeMoine, Bowdoin College

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