A pregnant woman who was not seeking an abortion, was denied health care for her heart condition because she was pregnant and doctors did not want to risk harming the pregnancy. She died as a result. Her name was Ciji Graham and Pro Publica journalist Lizzie Presser reported on her story. “I think one of the things that's really disturbing in her medical records is that neither of the cardiologists that Graham saw spoke to her about her pregnancy and the risks of continuing it without getting the heart care that she needed,” she said. “And that silence around pregnancy, and its risks, that's being normalized by these bans is deeply, deeply concerning.” Georgetown law professor Michele Goodwin emphasizes that this is one of many tragedies that have taken place as a result of abortion bans. “We have these reproductive health care deserts throughout the United States, and we see the kind of suffering that's being reported, and then so much more that doesn't end up getting reported, that just simply gets lost in the mix of things,” she said. “And that's the real tragedy.”

President Trump threatens to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge between the U.S. and Canada. Mitch Landrieu, former Infrastructure Coordinator in the Biden administration, says the threats show the president’s “corruption, incompetence, and cruelty.” Former Export-Import Bank of the United States chairman Fred Hochberg says, “Infrastructure takes steadiness, resolve, a lot of money, and it makes all of us more productive.”

The FDA’s decision not to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine application “seems to be a way to discourage bringing these types of technologies to the market,” said Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an Infectious Diseases Physician. This is the latest in a series of actions by the Trump administration that has undermined mRNA research.

Donald Trump is walking in the footsteps of past autocrats by naming government buildings and initiatives after himself. Jason Stanley says Trump’s “self-aggrandizing” actions turn the United States into a “cheap vehicle” for his family.

Author Jennifer Finney Boylan’s remarkable life has been examined across five memoirs through humor, well-placed anecdotes, and pitch-perfect detail. Her latest memoir, "Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us", explores the transgender experience, but also love, family, and the ever-constant of change.

The Trump-aligned Fifth Circuit Court in Texas just handed the Trump administration broad authority to lock up scores of detained immigrants, provided it can get them to Texas, Louisiana, or Mississippi. As legal challenges to their detention soar, the Trump administration has begun transferring arrests from Minnesota and other places to Texas, where their challenges can be heard by courts that are friendlier to the White House. While federal law dictates that migrants detained inside the country may be released while their cases work their way through courts, Vox's Senior correspondent, Ian Millhiser, says, "Trump has started to apply the rules that apply to people at the border to every immigrant in the country."

Dilley, Texas calls itself “A slice of the good life,” but for hundreds of detained families, life there looks very different. Letters written by detained children and shared with ProPublica paint a harrowing picture of life inside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. Ali breaks down the Trump administration's new strategy of quickly transferring migrants to Texas, where appeals are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a court widely seen as favorable to the administration’s immigration agenda.

The Trump administration is repealing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. “Of all of Trump's outrages - invading Greenland, putting tariffs on us, you know, election tampering - of all the outrages, I think this actually might be the most consequential because it leads to more deaths,” said Jay Inslee, the fmr. governor of Washington and longtime climate activist. “This is personally deadly for Americans...there is a legal obligation to rein in these pollutants when you find there's a danger to health.”

The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known legal weapon, targeting dissenters with administrative subpoenas. MSNOW Legal Analyst Melissa Murray says the Trump administration isn’t using them “to fight crime or enhance public safety, but to minimize public dissent.” Tech reporter Joseph Menn warns, “This isn’t an isolated case.”

The Washington Post faces more turmoil as the embattled CEO and publisher Will Lewis steps down after a wave of layoffs at the newspaper. The Post’s billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, declared in 2016, “Democracy dies in darkness,” but critics say he is now turning out the light. Former Executive Editor Marty Baron said, "Things have been made dramatically worse by the behavior of the owner.”

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes says voters are “sick and tired” of President Trump’s repeated claims that he should have won the 2020 elections. “People want government to just do its job. They want reasonableness. They want predictability.” 

Aldous Huxley’s magnum opus “Brave New World” is eerily relevant in today’s America. It explores our cultural fixation and addiction to distraction in a world of unbridled mass consumerism. Alarmingly, it depicts a world with little hope for change when there is little desire to change.

This week, The Washington Post suffered mass layoffs that gutted the venerable newspaper’s staff by a third. Billionaire owner Jeff Bezos was once lauded for his stewardship of The Post. But former deputy editor Ruth Marcus writes, “He seems content to let the paper limp along, diminished in size and ambition.”

The labor movement has been at the forefront of social change for much of American history. Unions and labor leaders have been instrumental in many political movements that helped to shape the society we live in today. “Not only can labor challenge the oligarchy, they can challenge the corporate bosses,” author Thom Hartmann tells Ali Velshi. “They also stand up for democracy… Unions are democracy in the workplace.”

Throughout American history, labor unions have played an important role promoting the rights of workers, immigrants, and other marginalized groups building this country. Black labor leader A. Philip Randolph helped to organize a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement, the March on Washington. As the United States endures another era of great political upheaval, unions and other labor activists have another opportunity to make a difference in American society today.

ICE is now the most well-funded law enforcement agency in the country—and it’s spending that money on powerful surveillance tools. From facial recognition and phone tracking to spyware, data brokers, and drones, ICE is expanding its tech arsenal under Trump’s mass deportation push. Technology journalist, Jacob Ward joins Ali to discuss what these tools do, how they work, and why critics warn that these tools infringe upon the privacy and free speech rights of immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

As Minnesotans respond to and resist the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, "rapid response" groups have organized to keep an eye out for federal agents and alert their neighbors. St. Paul City Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim, who volunteers as a part of one such group, says that "our main goal is to observe" and that "we know our streets and our neighbors the best." Kim says she views the group's work as "a form of nonviolent protest" to hold the federal government accountable.

Greg Ketter, the owner of Dreamhaven Books & Comics in Minneapolis, went viral for putting words to what so many are feeling right now. He is angry. And he knows what book banning & the suppression of dissent means: “the chipping away of our freedom.” #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

Throughout history, economic boycotts have been a powerful tool for social and political change. Now, it's being employed as Americans seek ways to voice their opposition to the federal government's aggressive immigration crackdown and the corporations that work alongside the Trump administration in enabling it. Martin Luther King spoke of the "power of economic withdrawal," and it's a force with which Americans are using once again.

The day Alex Pretti was killed in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen penned a song titled “Streets of Minneapolis.” Protest songs are a part of American history, and while they won’t solve our problems on their own, they can empower listeners and turn moments into memory. Then, they turn memory into moral reckoning.

Observing and documenting law enforcement is a right protected by the Constitution. As people take to the streets to protest Trump’s immigration crackdown, it’s important to be armed with the knowledge of how to safely and legally protest and observe ICE operations. Yeng Her, a Minnesota-based Organizing Director of the Immigrant Defense Network, joins Ali Velshi to inform viewers how to exercise your constitutional rights without impeding law enforcement.

Corporate America is notoriously silent when it comes to speaking out against President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. But Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen says corporate leaders need to speak out against injustice. “The success of Ben & Jerry's is because we used our power as a corporation to support the people.”

Twice in three weeks, federal immigration agents have killed American citizens in the streets of Minneapolis. Twice, our own government put out narratives to paint the victims-- Renee Good and Alex Pr...

Twice in three weeks, federal immigration agents have killed American citizens in the streets of Minneapolis. Twice, our own government put out narratives to paint the victims-- Renee Good and Alex Pr...

Alex Pretti was described by the government as approaching federal agents with a handgun when he was shot dead. But the video released since the incident shows Pretti with his hands empty when interac...