By Ella Fassler for Truthout/TheAppeal In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived in the city’s northwest. According to a police…
By Joshua Scheer In a nationally televised primetime address from the White House, President Donald Trump spent much of the speech defending his economic record and touting the strength of…
by Max Blau for ProPublica When Jon Esformes was in his 20s, farmworkers staged protests outside one of his family’s tomato farms, in California’s Central Valley, calling out the fact…
Many migrants who were hoping to reach the U.S. are now stuck in a backlog with Mexico’s refugee agency; others are going home.
By Stephen Prager for Common Dreams Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a…
By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams As a “chilling” report in the New York Times revealed that the Transportation Security Administration is providing the names of all airline passengers to…
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
By Skyler Voss Yesterday, the president blamed immigrants during a speech about inflation, asking, “Why is it we only take people from shithole countries, right? Why can’t we have some…
By Nora Loreto for Truthout On Saturday, December 6, soccer fans around the world will find out where their favorite teams will be playing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.…
By: Mike Ludwig Original for Truthout/TheAppeal When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready…
By Emran Feroz Originally Published by Truthout. After two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington, D.C. last week, several U.S. pundits and politicians were quick with their descriptions of…
By Brett Wilkins | Originally Published at Common Dreams In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an “unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,” a federal immigration officer fired pepper…
Morgan Marietta Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee originally published at The Conversation The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship.…
By Brett Wilkins Original to Common Dreams The Trump administration on Wednesday launched a major operation against what it said are “criminal illegal aliens” in New Orleans but that critics…
By Joshua Scheer The Shooting, the Panic — and a New Asylum Crackdown A deadly shooting near the White House, in which one member of the United States National Guard…
