Over the course of 36 hours at the tail end of the three-month legislative session, Indiana lawmakers made significant policy changes that fundamentally alter how state universities conduct themselves.
The Trump administration on Friday abruptly moved to restore thousands of international students’ ability to study in the United States legally, but immigration officials insisted they could still try to terminate that legal status despite a wave of legal challenges.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
From a recent peaceful student rally at Columbia University came a chant that summed up their protest – “FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DEAD AND YOU’RE ARRESTING US INSTEAD.”
A sign is seen above a branch of Oxfam, in central London, UK [File: Simon Dawson/Reuters]
Billionaires’ wealth globally grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, global advocacy group Oxfam International says, as some of the world’s political and financial elite prepare to attend an annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland.
In its latest assessment of global inequality timed to the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, Oxfam on Monday said the combined wealth of billionaires rose by $2 trillion to $15 trillion last year.
Afghan men load up food packets that were distributed as aid by the World Food Programme. Last weekend, all USAID contracts supporting humanitarian aid from WFP and other agencies in Afghanistan were canceled.
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Well, I see that Trump’s effort to remake America into a gulag has claimed another victim: Americorps.
If you are unfamiliar with Americorps, a recent description from the Brennan Center might be helpful.
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: U.S. President Donald Trump stands with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon after signing an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The NAACP is challenging the Trump administration in a new federal lawsuit that accuses the U.S. Department of Education of violating the civil rights of Black American students with its broad anti-DEI policies..
People attend a protest against the deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.Robyn Stevens Brody/Sipa USA/AP
The title of this post is taken from T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, the final poem of a series of four poems written over a six year period (1936-1942). The collection was eventually published as the Four Quartets. The poems are about a nation and a culture under threat, this final one written during the London air raids of WWII.
More than 500 people this year have already left the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service. Nearly 200 of those departures were people who work in weather forecasting offices, which had already faced serious understaffing.
President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador.
In fact, it’s happening.
US President Donald Trump speaks with Vice President JD Vance as they meet with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 14, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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An interfaith prayer vigil for Kilmar Abrego Garcia is held at the White House on April 14, 2025, during the visit of El Salvador's president. Abrego Garcia was wrongly deported to a prison in El Salvador. His wife and children await his return. , Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images
Yesterday was the day democracy in our nation officially died.
Over 700 Greater Lafayette residents rallied around the Courthouse in a “Remove! Reverse! Reclaim!” rally, April 5, 2025. This rally, organized by many local groups including Indivisible, featured numerous colorful signs including “Morons are Gas Lighting America,” “Love Your Neighbor No Deportation,” “Hands Off Social Security, Our Bodies, Medicare/Medicaid, and Our Free Speech.” The rally included chanting, speeches, singalongs, and a march across the bridge from West Lafayette to Lafayette, Indiana.
The Governor of Indiana issued the following executive order, "Enduring Student Safety at State Educational Institutions"
Indiana Executive Order 25-39 https://www.in.gov/gov/files/EO-25-39-.pdf
Jewish Voice for Peace Indiana Responded:
The highest form of freedom in a democracy isn’t just the right to vote or protest — it’s the right to speak truth to power. To call out corruption. To challenge lies. To stand firm when the powerful demand silence. This is the freedom that sustains all others.
And it’s the one Donald Trump tried to crush yesterday with the stroke of a pen.
For Americans living in the Southern United States, poverty rates above the national level, lower rates of economic mobility, and high rates of economic inequality are persistent features of life. A key factor explaining these trends, especially among children, is the Southern economic development model.
Donald Trump is selling his economic chaos with a simple story:
“In the years 1945-1981, before Reagan and Clinton (and pretty much all of both parties) embraced ‘free trade’ neoliberalism, a single worker in an American factory could buy a house, take a nice vacation every year, get a new car every two or three years, put his kids through college, and retire with a comfortable pension. All because we made things in America.
