Justice

Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense

Natasha Lennard

- Jan. 22

The Trump administration is taking a brute-force approach to push trans people out of public life.

A man walks through debris at a mosque damaged by Eaton Fire in Altadena. (Photo by Ringo Chiu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Disasters Like the LA Fires Always Hit the Poor the Hardest. Trump Wants to Make It Worse.

Matt Sledge

- Jan. 22

An executive order from Trump helps ensure that inequities of the federal aid distribution system will keep favoring the white and wealthy.

A temporary security fence is seen near the U.S. Capitol building ahead of the presidential inauguration Jan. 13, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

I Protested Trump’s First Inauguration. But I’m Not Marching Against Him Today.

Natasha Lennard

- Jan. 20

There is little point in going to Washington today to oppose Trump’s return — Trumpism never left. There are more urgent tasks now.

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, an asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Voices

Why My Memories of Being Taken From My Mom at the Border Came Flooding Back

Najenyi Dominguez

- Jan. 19

I was separated from my mom at age 10. Donald Trump's reelection has reignited my family's fears.

The guard tower flanks the sign at the entrance to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., in Terre Haute, Ind., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. The facility houses a Special Confinement Unit for male federal inmates who have been sentenced to death as well as the federal execution chamber. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Out for Blood

Biden Commuted Their Death Sentences. Now What?

Liliana Segura

- Jan. 18

As three men challenge their commutations, others brace for imminent prison transfers and the finality of a life sentence with no chance of release.

Men inspect their home following an Israeli airstrike in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, on January 15, 2025, as the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continues. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP)

Voices

Gaza Changed the World

Evan Wexler

- Jan. 16

There is no more status quo, no going back, and yet, after the ceasefire, so much will remain the same.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators face of with a line of police outside the Stata Center at MIT, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. Police detained at least three members of a group of close to 100 demonstrators who held signs criticizing MIT for research they claim was being conducted for Israeli military drones. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Israel’s War on Gaza

MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties

Akela Lacy

- Jan. 16

A new report from MIT Coalition for Palestine details Israeli-funded research into everything from drone swarms to underwater surveillance.

Rupert Murdoch talks with the media in London, Friday, July 15, 2011.

The Trump DOJ Loved Leaking, as Long as It Was to Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers

Shawn Musgrave

- Jan. 12

The Trump administration spied on reporters to catch leakers. At the same time, it was leaking to right-wing media.

Out for Blood

She Lost Her Dad to Trump’s Killing Spree. Now She Wants Biden to Clear His Name.

Victoria Valenzuela

- Jan. 11

Alfred Bourgeois’s daughter is convinced of his innocence. In the four years since his execution, she has waged a sometimes-lonely battle to prove it.

President-elect Donald Trump is sentenced to an "unconditional discharge" following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money criminal case.

A Tale of Two Justice Systems: Only Trump Gets Convicted of 34 Felonies and Receives No Punishment

Jessica Washington

- Jan. 10

Public defenders and legal professionals said they never see the leniency offered to Trump given to other defendants.