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'I Have No Rights': Minnesota Residents Sue Trump Administration for Racial Profiling, Stops Without Suspicion and Warrantless Arrests

From the Left / ACLU / Mar 23, 2026

As immigration agents patrolled the Twin Cities in January, 30-year-old R.M. and his family insisted on staying home in the suburbs of Minneapolis. That was, until his 5-year-old daughter really wanted ice cream. "I'm brave," she said. "I can go." So they grabbed their passport cards and left for the ice cream shop. When they returned, U.S. ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Pentagon's Press Panic Threatens August Stars and Stripes

From the Left / Clarence Page / Mar 23, 2026

Oh, no. Stars and Stripes is under fire again.

Controversy is not exactly unknown to the legendary military newspaper. Born during the Civil War, Stars and Stripes has taken all sorts of flak and survived, impressively for a publication owned and operated by the U.S. military that nevertheless calls itself an “independent” voice.

As ...Read more

Trump's Iran War Not Likely the Jaunt He's Trying to Sell

From the Left / Clarence Page / Mar 16, 2026

Here we go again.

What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war with Iran broke out?

We have grown wearily familiar with President Trump’s cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his tendency to snatch words out of the air, appropriately or ...Read more

Trump Is Attacking a Crucial Fair Housing Rule That Protects Against Discrimination

From the Left / ACLU / Mar 16, 2026

Just days after being assaulted in her home, L.B., a client at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, was given 14 days to leave her home. Another client, N.S., was denied housing under a blanket "no-evictions" policy that disproportionately excludes Black women. When fair housing protections fail, women -- especially low-income women, women of ...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