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Scott Hechinger is an American civil rights attorney, former public defender, and the founder and executive director of Zealous, a nonprofit organization that supports historically overlooked experts leverage media, technology, and storytelling to shift public notions of health and safety. He is also an appointed lecturer at Columbia Law School, the University of San Francisco School of Law, and the University of Chicago Law School.

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Trump’s plot to tear the country in two

Paul Waldman

An extreme close up of Donald Trump and a bar of text that reads "Trump 2.0 Year One"

Trump 2.0 rehashed ‘America First.’ But this time, it’s against the world.

Julia Jester & Jake Traylor

A photo collage of menacing-looking ICE agents with Trump pointing overlayed

Something darker is taking shape inside Trump’s ICE

Zeeshan Aleem

A photo illustration of a person holding an iPhone while filming an ICE agent

There’s a reason the DOJ wants to stop Minneapolis citizens from filming ICE

Scott Hechinger

Court blocks ICE agents from detaining peaceful protesters in Minneapolis

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Democrat rips ‘spineless’ Minnesota GOP officials for refusing to stand up to Trump

Allison Detzel

cell phone case with picture of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei

Trump calls for end of Iranian regime

Erum Salam

A silhouette of President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House.

Trump threatens tariffs on European allies to force Greenland sale

Clarissa-Jan Lim

President Donald Trump meets with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Jan. 15, 2026 in the Oval Office.

The real reason Machado gave her Nobel medal to Trump

Zeeshan Aleem

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What the Brooke Rollins $3 meal meme shows about Team Trump’s economic blindness

Helaine Olen

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at a podium

Justice Department investigates top Minnesota Democrats amid ICE protests

Ken Dilanian & Clarissa-Jan Lim

A line of ICE agents with guns drawn at nighttime.

Court blocks ICE agents from detaining peaceful protesters in Minneapolis

Clarissa-Jan Lim

A very tight portrait of President Trump fills the frame as he is talking to the press outside of the White House.

Why Trump’s pitiful new health care ‘plan’ is even worse than it appears

Steve Benen

Chris Hayes blasts White House’s ‘content-first’ approach

Allison Detzel

A photo illustration of a whistle in front of Renee Good's vehicle after being involved in a shooting by an ICE agent during federal law enforcement operations.

Trump’s latest smear of Renee Good

Jarvis DeBerry

Former Rep. Billy Long during a Senate Finance Committee nomination hearing on May 20, 2025, on Capitol Hill.

Why Billy Long’s ‘joke’ about Iceland becoming an American state was not well received

Steve Benen

Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

RFK Jr: A ‘good mother’ knows not to trust experts on matters of public health

Steve Benen

Guns confiscated at New York City public schools at a news conference on May 25, 2022, in New York City.

Trump’s Justice Department rejects federal ban on mailing concealable firearms

Steve Benen

Press secretary Leavitt talks outside the White House, in a frame showing a very tight profile with members of the press in the background.

The White House wants the left to stop sounding so much like Trump

Steve Benen

President Trumps walks out of the White House at night, holding a large black umbrella.

Trump’s Minnesota threats suggest he may be close to unleashing what he’s always wanted

Philip Bump

Ashley St. Clair.

Elon Musk’s ex Ashley St. Clair is using ancient legal arguments to fight a modern problem

Jessica Levinson

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Washington, D.C.

How ICE could sink a deal to fund the government

Hayes Brown

Rep. Kristin Noble.

New Hampshire Republican is defiant after reportedly hyping ‘segregated schools’

Ja'han Jones

How Maine’s governor is preparing for her state to become ICE’s next target

Allison Detzel

The badge of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 09, 2025 in New York City.

Democrats condemn ICE lawyer’s return to work after report links him to racist account

Ja'han Jones

A view of Arctic Command in Nuuk at night, shot from a high angle.

European troops arrive in Greenland as Trump targets allies with new tariff threats

Steve Benen

Federal law enforcement officers during confrontations with residents in Minneapolis.

I’m a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here’s how ICE observers are helping.

Nicole Bedera

Federal judge blocks ICE from interfering with peaceful protesters

Democrats’ path to the majority in the House: Affordability

Velshi: What should happen with Trump and the Nobel Prize

Minneapolis braces for marches as Trump’s DOJ targets local leaders

‘Disgusting, un-American’: House Dem responds to ICE’s racial profiling, violence in Minnesota

‘Sometimes his jokes become reality’: ‘Morning Joe’ panel reacts to Trump’s election remark

Trump struggles with economy polling in early 2026 as DOJ probe into Jerome Powell kicks off

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    ICE funding jumped $75 billion. Here’s my plan to redirect the windfall.

    U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

  2. Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin talks with reporters on Jan. 12, 2026 in Pittsburgh.

    What Mike Tomlin leaving the Steelers might mean for the NFL

    Keith Reed

  3. Emissions rise from the Royal Dutch Shell Plc Norco Refinery in Norco, La.

    Trump’s EPA is giving companies a license to make Americans sick

    Hayes Brown

  4. A window, acting as a prism, multiplies an image of Donald Trump on a TV.

    Trump’s ‘morality’ can be summed up in 5 words

    Kristen Monroe

  5. Vice President JD Vance claps as President Donald Trump smiles.

    This new DOJ fraud division gives Trump a tool no president should have

    Austin Sarat

  6. The arson attack on Beth Israel isn’t typical of Mississippi. But the response to it is.

    Stuart Rockoff

  7. People hold signs reading "Who will ask the questions" and "Less news we all lose" outside the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette building.

    Another local newspaper shuttering is bad news for America

    Keith Reed

  8. Elon Musk pauses and looks down against a black background.

    Countries have begun banning Grok over its porn scandal. Could the U.S. be next?

    Ja'han Jones

  9. A man looks at the screens at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History.

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    Zeeshan Aleem

  10. An illustration of Plato with duct tape over his mouth

    Texas A&M wants to ban a 2,000-year-old male philosopher from my college class

    Martin Peterson

  11. Vice President JD Vance.

    Vance’s ‘door to door’ rhetoric is reminiscent of Gestapo

    Ja'han Jones

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