The Trump-Republican government shutdown has clearly hurt Trump and the Republicans, as we’ve seen in polling and in last week’s elections. This has given the Democrats the upper hand, and now they’re using it. Senate Republicans have caved and given Senate Democrats essentially everything they wanted in a deal to reopen the federal government. And…

Fear and loathing of illegal immigrants has become the political distraction of our age. That fear and loathing was created for and cynically leveraged by oligarchs and xenophobic Republicans telling lies. They are loud, falsely moralistic, and pushing a narrative that is disproportionate to any measurable harm. Multiple studies have found that immigrants are less…

This is not just Heidy Sanchez Tejeda’s story — it’s a reflection of what can happen to any loving, law-abiding family caught in a broken system. Heidy was deported despite having no criminal record, ...