What’s the big picture here? Why should we abolish ICE?

ICE has been transformed into a paramilitary arm of the Trump presidency. Uniquely among federal institutions its missions, its prerogatives, and its personnel have become instruments not of U.S. executive power…

We are told that the Republican Obamacare repeal bill will distribute money from states (mainly blue) that expanded healthcare under the law to states that did not (mainly red), and that those states will then provide quality care — and that thus an injustice will…

The “Obama wiretapped Trump for political gain” story is a remarkable example of flimflammery in action, but it’s also a prime demonstration of how a particular kind of concocted story actually becomes mechanically connected to another, such that the stories…

Look carefully at what the attack on the free press currently underway is about, and you’ll see that what its proponents really want is to lock the power to debate public issues solely in the hands of their cronies.