News in Brief Trump’s Opioid Plan and the Bones of the War on Drugs Throughout his insurgent campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump spoke about the nation’s growing opioid epidemic, vowing to… Krish Lingala
News in Brief Trump Can Technically Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his… Derek Kravitz & Al Shaw
News in Brief Human Trafficking, After the Headlines If you were asked to imagine what a survivor of human trafficking looked like, how would you picture… Melissa Gira Grant
News in Brief Kellyanne Conway and the Making of an American President I read Molly Ball’s recent Atlantic article on Kellyanne Conway with some trepidation. I’ve grown tired of Conway’s… Seth Masket
Social Justice What Happens When Blackness Becomes Integral to the Culture of Twitter Social media has given corporations unprecedented access to blackness online, but the relationship is one of consumption without credit. Rachelle Hampton
News in Brief Trump’s ‘Buy American’ Pledge May Be At Risk With His Border Wall In one of his first tweets as president, here’s how Donald Trump promised to spend taxpayer dollars: “We… T. Christian Miller
News in Brief America’s Most Inefficient Immigration Court Is Set to Improve The small immigration court in Imperial County, California, is arguably the country’s most inefficient. Planted squarely in a… Morgan Baskin
News in Brief What’s Wrong With America’s Current Approach to Cybersecurity? It’s almost impossible these days to avoid media coverage of Russia’s role in hacking the 2016 election. So… Gregory Michaelidis
News in Brief The Trump Administration Consistently Ignores Democrats’ Demands for Information When billionaire investor Wilbur Ross was going through the confirmation process to become President Donald Trump’s secretary of… Justin Elliott
News in Brief Flint Has Finally Been Handed a Legal Victory Almost three years after the city of Flint, Michigan, began using its namesake river as a source of… Jared Keller