Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents shot seven rounds into the vehicle of a New York father while his five-year-old son was in the car on the afternoon of Thursday, October 8. Oscar Belgal, a Dominican man, who had just picked up his son from school, was hit in the neck but survived the shooting. He is currently being detained by ICE in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn after being discharged from the hospital Thursday night. His lawyers have reported that he still has a bullet lodged in his body more than 24 hours after being shot.

From the firing squad to the solitary cell, the carceral system operates through “human sacrifice,” as Ruth Wilson Gilmore puts it: “The power to put humans in cages also derives from the power to kill — not only by way of the ritualized punishment of the death penalty, but also by life sentences, as well as the ritual of serially excused police killings that transformed #BlackLivesMatter from a lament to a movement.” The death penalty revival, and the wider ecosystem of criminalization rhetoric and policy in which it lives, is symptomatic of a larger, sharply cynical abandonment of life-affirming values and practices.

President Donald Trump's ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, has resigned after allegations of improper conduct but says she’ll “vigorously defend” herself.

Using its favored policy in the face of inflation, the Federal Reserve Board, under its new Chairman, Kevin Warsh, pushed up short-term interest rates in September. This action may have some impact on the rate of inflation, but probably not much. Raising interest rates may curtail inflation under some circumstances, but the major factors bringing about the current, continuing inflation are unlikely to be much affected by the Fed’s recent interest rate increases. But those other factors are out of bounds: the Fed can’t alter them, and the current administration in Washington won’t.

Over the past 15 months, I’ve traveled to 22 states and participated in more than 100 events with people living with the consequences of what Congress called the “One Big Beautiful Bill” — and many of the people we meet call the “One Big Ugly Law.” That law deeply slashed programs like SNAP and Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the wealthy, along with record high budgets for ICE and the Pentagon. We started in April 2025 with town halls in Warren, Michigan and Racine, Wisconsin, before the bill passed. In Warren, I met Steph, who runs a local food pantry.

The ICE raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar is an extremist escalation in Trump’s long-running threats — and the checks to stop him aren’t working.

In 1908, on one of his five presidential runs, legendary socialist organizer Eugene Debs embarked on a whirlwind tour across the country on his own train, the Red Special. His mission: spread the soci...

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The former special counsel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by personal insults rather than new revelations.

The conservative justice had previously resisted calls from environmentalists to recuse himself.