The Gestapo in New Jersey: When ICE went rogue, Democrats went limp
Just over one year ago, the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city tried to walk into an immigrant detention center to see what was happening inside. Ras Baraka was arrested for trespassing. Charged like a common loiterer. For attempting to inspect a facility that sits on poisoned ground in the heart of the state’s notorious…
More than 43,000 New Jersey residents lost food assistance in Trump’s budget law
The numbers arrived quietly, buried in federal tables and monthly reports, but their meaning is neither technical nor abstract. In New Jersey, participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program fell from 830,058 people to 786,858 in six months, a drop of more than 43,000 residents, while the state managed to add just 1,100 jobs during…
Forty years ago today, millions of Americans joined hands across America
Forty years ago today, millions of Americans joined hands in one of the most ambitious charitable events in U.S. history. On May 25, 1986, an estimated 6.5 million people formed a human chain stretching nearly 6,600 miles from New York City to Long Beach, California, in an effort to raise money and awareness for hunger…
Greed is not merely a symptom of what ails America, it’s the disease
The enduring magic of Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, lies not in its comforting holiday sentiment, but in its stark, diagnosis of the American soul and in its uncomfortable, prophetic clarity. We return to it not just for sentiment, but for a diagnosis. The story of a building and loan in…
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