After a failed US intervention exposed Afghan civilians to Taliban threats, Washington is retreating from its humanitarian…
ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ…
The US may be stepping back from some engagements on the world stage. That’s not necessarily bad news for the rest of…
Children with a parent or family member who is detained, or are part of a drawn-out immigration court case, are twice as…
After the regime ‘disappeared’ their children, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Maya relentlessly demanded justice…
Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively…
When officials lie time and again, people don’t know what to trust. And when this happens, citizens cannot deliberate,…
A US district judge is weighing whether the surge of ICE agents in the state violates the US Constitution or falls within…
Voters in places like Aliquippa and Braddock aren’t becoming more radical; they’re responding to decades of disinvestment…
Militarized immigration enforcement used to be confined to near the US-Mexico border, far away from most Americans’ front…
Since the republic’s beginning, it has been uncontested law that to invade someone’s home, the government needs a warrant…
A scholar of modern Iran looks at Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, and examines what he believes and why his…
Ambassadors play a middle role between the countries where they serve and the one they represent. Trump insists their loyalty…
Renee Good’s death was the consequence, writes a First Amendment scholar, of a kind of politics in which the state survives…
The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global…
“When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that…
Federal agents have pepper-sprayed, tackled and detained people recording their actions. If you post your recordings of…
Although she’s the world’s reigning pop star, attitudes toward Swift are split markedly along both partisan and gender…
A 1951 defense agreement between the United States and Denmark allows the US to build military installations on Greenland…
Iranian universities have long been places of reform and political imagination – as well as targets of censorship and…