Rising anti-ICE sentiment seen in New Jersey special primary election results
by Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor The results of Thursday’s special Democratic primary to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s former House seat indicate a rising sentiment among voters against federal immigration enforcement that Democrats hope to tap into as they seek to take control of Congress next year. The 11-person race’s erstwhile front-runner, former Rep. Tom…
Human Rights Watch: U.S. democracy in ‘dangerous slide’ under Trump’s second term
In a stark and comprehensive indictment, Human Rights Watch declared that the United States is in a “dangerous slide toward authoritarianism,” fueled by widespread human rights violations and a systematic dismantling of democratic accountability during the second term of President Donald Trump. The assessment, detailed in the organization’s 529-page World Report 2026, portrays an administration…
The Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, was both predictable and preventable
The horrors of October 7, 2023, are etched in blood and grief. Hamas militants stormed from the Gaza Strip, murdering approximately 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, most of them civilians, and abducting hundreds in a spree of atrocity. To call this “unprovoked,” however, is to view a forest fire and deny the existence of drought, tinder,…
Who would go full-tilt MAGA?
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who, in a showdown, would go MAGA Republican. By now, I think I know the types. I have come to know them: the born authoritarians, the ones whom our polarized politics itself has created, the certain-to-be…
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