Immigrants Seek Damages Over Raid of Chicago Apartment Building — ProPublica

Immigrants Seek Damages Over Raid of Chicago Apartment Building — ProPublica

On the night of the military-style raid at a Chicago apartment complex, a loud boom woke the Nigerian man who lived in Unit 215. Tolulope Akinsulie stood up from his bed and saw heavily armed federal agents rushing into his apartment. He then felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his right ankle, […]

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Israel’s Supporters Are Playing Into the Hands of the Antisemitic Right

Israel’s Supporters Are Playing Into the Hands of the Antisemitic Right

By conflating Judaism and Zionism, institutional leaders have made Jews everywhere less safe. Ad Policy A United Jewish Appeal sign outside a synagogue. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd. / NurPhoto via Getty Images) For several years now, Jewish communal leaders and institutions have been warning of a precipitous rise in antisemitism in the United States—and for […]

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Democrats After the Voting Rights Act—Plus, Jewish Anti-Zionism

Democrats After the Voting Rights Act—Plus, Jewish Anti-Zionism

Jon Wiener: From The Nation magazine, This is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the hour: Jews against Zionism: During the firs part of the 20th century, 100,000 Eastern European Jews joined a socialist organization we call the Bund, and they believed that Jews should fight for full rights wherever they were, not […]

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The Right Wants to Erase Minority Representation. We’ll Register Millions to Stop Them.

The Right Wants to Erase Minority Representation. We’ll Register Millions to Stop Them.

May 13, 2026 Their insult will arouse us—and put Republican incumbents’ own seats at risk. Ad Policy Democratic South Carolina State Representatives Hamilton Grant and Annie McDaniel look over a proposed congressional map during a meeting in the Blatt Building at the South Carolina State Capitol in Columbia on Friday, May 8, 2026.(Sam Wolfe / […]

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The Democrats Are Five Years Too Late to the Voting Rights Fight

The Democrats Are Five Years Too Late to the Voting Rights Fight

Virginia Democrats’ appeal to the Supreme Court to save their state’s new congressional map is a sad case in point. Ad Policy A “Vote Yes” sign urging voters to support a referendum to redraw Virginia’s Congressional map.(Valerie Plesch / Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Democratic Party is reeling. The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. […]

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The Rapid-Fire Political Education of Zohran Mamdani

The Rapid-Fire Political Education of Zohran Mamdani

Can New York’s mayor govern as a democratic socialist? (Matthew Hoen / NurPhoto via Getty Images) This article appears in the June 2026 issue, with the headline “Mamdani’s New Era.” My route to Knockdown Center—the cavernous music venue in Maspeth, Queens, where New York’s mayor and his supporters celebrated the first 100 days of what […]

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