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‘It felt like kidnapping,’ Mahmoud Khalil says in first interview after release

‘It felt like kidnapping,’ Mahmoud Khalil says in first interview after release

The New York Times reports: Mahmoud Khalil sat in a Manhattan apartment dotted with posters and signs calling for his freedom and described the moment 105 days before when plainclothes immigration agents had handcuffed him in the building lobby. “All the ‘Know Your Rights’ information and fliers I read and familiarized myself with were useless,” Mr. Khalil said. “There are no rights in such situations.” “It felt like kidnapping,” he said. Mr. Khalil, a 30-year-old Columbia University graduate and U.S….

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The people being disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles

The people being disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles

Emily Witt writes: On Tuesday, June 17th, Nancy Urizar was at her job working in the fund-raising department of a Jesuit boys’ high school in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts when her phone rang. “It was just a normal day for me,” she said. “It was twelve, and I had just come back from lunch.” On the other end of the line was her father’s landlord. Some friends of her dad’s had come over, the landlord told her, and…

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Trump is trying to minimize, ignore or even erase the experiences and history of Black people in the U.S.

Trump is trying to minimize, ignore or even erase the experiences and history of Black people in the U.S.

The New York Times reports: On the occasion of Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery, President Trump took a moment to complain that the national holiday even exists. “Too many non-working holidays in America,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media, just hours after his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, made a point of noting that White House staff had shown up to work. The president’s decision to snub Juneteenth — a day that has been cherished by generations of Black…

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U.S. enters war against Iran

U.S. enters war against Iran

Every time America is on the verge of greatness, we get involved in another foreign war. There would not be bombs falling on the people of Israel if Netanyahu had not dropped bombs on the people of Iran first. Israel is a nuclear armed nation. This is not our fight. Peace is… — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 21, 2025 🇾🇪⚡🇺🇲 | Houthis Say Striking Nuclear Facilities Is ‘Beginning’ Of Real War Mohamed al-Farah, a senior member of Yemen’s…

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Imagine the dictatorial powers Trump will wield if America goes to war with Iran

Imagine the dictatorial powers Trump will wield if America goes to war with Iran

Robert Kagan writes: I can think of nothing more perilous to American democracy right now than going to war. Think of how Trump can use a state of war to strengthen his dictatorial control at home. Trump declared a state of national emergency in response to a nonexistent “invasion” by Venezuelan gangs. Imagine what he will do when the United States is actually at war with a real country, one that many Americans fear. Will he tolerate dissent in wartime?…

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Iranians are uniting behind an anti-war message

Iranians are uniting behind an anti-war message

Nahid Siamdoust writes: Over the Islamic Republic’s four and a half decades, Iranians have tried hard to reform the system from within. They have been thwarted by their own government, but also by the breakdown of the nuclear agreement with the U.S. and other parties when Trump withdrew during his first term, the extreme sanctions that ensued and the recent peace negotiations that Netanyahu hijacked. They are now in an impossible position. On the one hand, many rejoice at seeing…

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WSJ: Stephen Miller has amassed more power in the White House than anyone else

WSJ: Stephen Miller has amassed more power in the White House than anyone else

The Wall Street Journal reports: Stephen Miller wanted to keep the planes in the air—and that is where they stayed. When a federal judge in March told the Trump administration to turn around flights of deported migrants headed to El Salvador, senior officials hastily convened a Saturday evening conference call to figure out what to do. If they didn’t return the passengers, they would be defying a court order, some administration officials worried. Miller, who is President Trump’s deputy chief…

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Florida law school gave a white supremacist an award, then banned him for being antisemitic

Florida law school gave a white supremacist an award, then banned him for being antisemitic

The New York Times reports: Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite. Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism,” the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted. In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in…

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Why the empty-atom picture misunderstands quantum theory

Why the empty-atom picture misunderstands quantum theory

Mario Barbatti writes: The camera zooms in on the person’s arm to reveal the cells, then a cell nucleus. A DNA strand grows on the screen. The camera focuses on a single atom within the strand, dives into a frenetic cloud of rocketing particles, crosses it, and leaves us in oppressive darkness. An initially imperceptible tiny dot grows smoothly, revealing the atomic nucleus. The narrator lectures that the nucleus of an atom is tens of thousands of times smaller than…

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We’re on the brink of a disastrous, illegal conflagration in the Middle East

We’re on the brink of a disastrous, illegal conflagration in the Middle East

Fawaz Gerges writes: Like the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, Israel’s war on Iran is neither legal nor just. It is a war of choice, not of necessity – and should the US or its European allies, particularly Britain, join in, they risk being dragged into another disastrous and unlawful conflict in the Middle East. A US military intervention would be in direct contravention of international law. Already, the US, once the architect and guardian of the…

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Trump might take the U.S. to war. Where are the Democratic leaders?

Trump might take the U.S. to war. Where are the Democratic leaders?

Peter Beinart writes: Given the gravity of this moment, Democratic leaders should be holding news conferences, addressing mass protests, even bringing Congress to a standstill with all-night filibusters in order to prevent an unauthorized, unjustified war. The public is deeply weary of conflict. And yet top Democrats are not boldly rallying them against the possibility of another. This is a serious blunder. It’s a foreign policy blunder because Iran — a corrupt and brutal regime interested primarily in staying in…

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Israel’s attack on Iran is illegal

Israel’s attack on Iran is illegal

Adil Ahmad Haque writes: Israel’s use of force against Iran was and remains plainly unlawful and a manifest violation of the United Nations Charter. The Charter prohibits the use of force except with the authorization of the UN Security Council or in the exercise of the right of self-defense “if an armed attack occurs.” No armed attack by Iran against Israel was occurring on June 12, or was about to occur, or was bound to occur unless prevented by the…

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‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

Ahmed Ahmed and Ibtisam Mahdi report: In the early hours of June 11, before sunrise, 19-year-old Hatem Shaldan and his brother Hamza, 23, went to wait for aid trucks near the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip. They hoped to return with a bag of white flour for their family of five. Instead, Hamza returned with his younger brother’s body wrapped in a white burial shroud. The Shaldan family had lived virtually without food for nearly two months due…

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