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Top DOJ Leaders Quit Over Response to ICE Killing of Renee Good
At least four high-ranking officials at the criminal arm of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Office are quitting over their department’s refusal to investigate the ICE killing of Renee...
FBI Now Investigating Past History of Minnesota Woman Killed by ICE
Renee Good, the Minnesota mother killed by ICE agents last week, is being investigated by the FBI for ties to activist groups.The New York Times reports that federal agents...
Trump and Hegseth Face New War Crime Allegation Over Drug Boat Strikes
He then tried to shift blame for the hastily constructed tariff plan—which was built on bad math—onto the judiciary. He claimed that the nine-justice bench would be at fault...
Transcript: Trump Shooting Horror Worsens as Damning ICE Info Emerges
Sargent: Yeah, I mean, everybody’s a terrorist, right? So the second we learned about this shooting, Kristi Noem runs out and says that this officer was the victim of...
Trump Thinks Seizing Venezuela Makes Up for His Other Bad Policies
Americans are suffering an affordability crisis—it’s just not primarily caused by pain at the pump. In October, the Urban Institute found that over the last eight years, childcare costs,...
Trump’s Authoritarianism Is Getting Worse
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. By the...
Transcript: Trump’s Authoritarianism Is Getting Worse
This is a lightly edited transcript of the January 12 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on...
GOP Pols and Judges Are Accomplices in Democracy’s Destruction
Second, both congressional Republicans and the federal judiciary have allowed Trump to essentially govern entirely through the executive branch, taking over numerous tasks that are normally and constitutionally the...
What the Left Gets Wrong About the Iranian Protests
Iranians have agency. They have been protesting against this regime from its very beginning. In March 1979, one month after Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran, overthrew the king, and...
Military Intervention Will Not Liberate the Iranian People
The scale, persistence, and geographic spread of these protests mark a qualitative shift. According to data compiled by the Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA, at least 544...
