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The Department of Homeland Security was established to keep Americans safe. Under President Trump, it has so shifted its focus to illegal immigration that other aspects of its mission are suffering. [...]
The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency has. [...]
At a health care town hall in his swing state, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, test-drove his party’s new political pitch to an audience disappointed in the outcome of the shutdown. [...]
Public intellectuals have declined due to self-censorship, administrative demands, and corporatization of universities. Academic freedom is in sharp decline, with nearly two-thirds of faculty curtailing teaching and research activities due to [...]
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block, authors of the new book, Strike While the Needle is Hot: A [...]
Modern medical science gave Dick Cheney one of its greatest gifts when he received a donor heart in 2012 at the age of 71. Thirty-four years earlier, Cheney had suffered [...]