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As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) on March 26, 2025, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The Trump administration deported 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organizations

ICE Barbie is Gone, but Will Immigration Policy Improve?

From the Left / Clarence Page / Mar 09, 2026

The worst of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s many terrible moments in last week's congressional hearings on immigration control probably came when she admitted to being unfamiliar with the shockingly appalling case of politics/fromtheleft/clarencepage/s-4032586">Read more

ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Dangerous 287(g) Agreements With Local Police

From the Left / ACLU / Mar 02, 2026

Masked, lawless federal agents have become a symbol of the Trump administration's violent drive to deport millions of people. But across the country, thousands of state and local police are increasingly mimicking these abusive federal agents, blending into their operations and intensifying fear in their own communities.

At least 77.2 million ...Read more

The Rev. Jesse Jackson yells to the chairman to get attention for a demand to get a 2/3rd vote during the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 10, 1972. Jackson and his group managed to prevent delegates controlled by Mayor Richard J. Daley from being seated. Although Jackson knew when and how to defy power, he also knew how to cajole the powerful to make room at the table for the excluded. (Dave Nystrom/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

The Ripple Effects of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Vision of Black Economic Power

From the Left / Clarence Page / Mar 02, 2026

Having covered the Rev. Jesse Jackson for more than a half-century, I have an insider’s understanding of why thousands of people lined up to wait patiently last week in Chicago to pay their final respects to the departed civil rights icon.

Jackson knew when and how to defy power, but he also knew how to cajole the powerful to make room at the...Read more

Congress Must Rein In ICE To Improve the State of the Union

From the Left / ACLU / Feb 24, 2026

In times of war and peace, prosperity and depression, American presidents have complied with their constitutional obligation to deliver to Congress an update on the nation.

It's a hallowed tradition, but this year, due to President Donald Trump's own actions, the state of this union is bleak. However, the good news is that We the People are ...Read more

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honored at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual Dr. King Breakfast on Jan. 20, 2025. (Audrey Richardson/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Jesse Jackson Never Lost Hope in Human Redemption, and Neither Should We

From the Left / Clarence Page / Feb 23, 2026

Having covered the late Rev. Jesse Jackson off and on since the 1960s, I am still amused to receive an email from one of my many critics who wants me to know that you don't have to be white to find something to criticize about Black people, as if I didn’t know.

In fact, I've made an impressive collection of what I call “I’m not racist, ...Read more

Welcome to the World of MAGA Machismo, Where Muscles Trump Brains

From the Left / Dick Polman / Nov 16, 2023

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more

Trump and his lawyers think he can get away with anything. It's outlandish.

From the Left / Ruth Marcus / Oct 25, 2019

WASHINGTON -- "The king can do no wrong." That is the ancient legal maxim used to explain why a sovereign should not be held to account for misdeeds. President Trump and his lawyers are now making arguments that make this legal doctrine look wimpy. Their vision boils down to: The king can do whatever wrong he damn pleases, and there's nothing ...Read more