They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the ...

In April 2024, as he was secretly completing his eighth feature film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian writer-director, received word that his final legal appeal had been ...

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Trump began his second term by signing a spate of executive orders, many echoing directives from his first administration. He promised tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico (as Dean Baker wrote ...

Trump’s inauguration ushers in uncertainty and terror for immigrants and advocacy groups as they brace for the massive immigration crackdown he has already ...

Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all goods ...

On a Sunday in the summer of 1959, in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, Senator John F. Kennedy rose to address the banquet of the annual meeting of the American Society for ...

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...