A Slice of Pizza, Then Handcuffs He was sitting at a table in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, eating a slice of pizza with his teammates, when the agents moved in. Matías Pourrain, a 26-year-old Argentinian midfielder for Miami United Football…
Coffin Homes, Shipping Containers, and $5,000 Rents: The Global Housing Affordability Crisis in 35 Images There is a particular cruelty to a housing crisis: it is slow, structural, and almost entirely preventable. From Hong Kong to Los Angeles, from Seoul’s…
A Once-Principled Critic Reverses Course Mike Rogers used to say the quiet part out loud. In the turbulent weeks after the 2020 election, as Donald Trump flooded the public sphere with fabricated claims of voter fraud, Rogers — then a…
The policy is vague by design. That’s the point — and that’s what makes it dangerous. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month a sweeping new visa restriction policy targeting foreigners he accuses of links to “far-left terrorism.” On…
Something has shifted in the atmosphere of American airports — and it is not turbulence. Across the country, airline carriers are raising their voices against a growing pattern of immigration enforcement operations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement directly…
An Associated Press investigation has uncovered a troubling pattern at the heart of American immigration enforcement: the federal government is detaining and moving to deport the spouses and parents of active-duty and veteran U.S. military personnel. At least 52 family…
The courtroom has become a familiar battleground. On Monday, a coalition of 25 states — the vast majority led by Democratic attorneys general — filed suit against the Trump administration in the US Court of International Trade, seeking to halt…
A Democratic official is avoiding her own party’s convention — and her reasons demand serious attention. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the first Jewish person ever elected to that office in the state, has announced she will not attend the…
The pre-Trump Republican establishment isn’t dead. It’s just waiting. Vice President JD Vance has the clearest path to Donald Trump’s eventual endorsement for 2028, but a significant faction of the GOP — one that never accepted Trump’s remaking of the…
A city long comfortable calling itself progressive is now being asked whether it means it. Ann Arbor, Michigan — a university town that has reliably sent Democrats to office for a quarter century — is hosting one of the most…