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Another Death in Minneapolis

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When Alex Pretti went out to protest ICE actions in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, he surely knew that Renee Good had been shot and killed about two weeks earlier.

Forbearance

We’ve stopped talking again
so the earth has no color.
Everywhere the chlorophyll has paused,
light burning over the day’s lessons
as hunger burns
the mouth I can’t make eat.
A little rice? A little soup?
I’d rather die
reading the early texts
you sent about my breasts.
I wouldn’t take a picture—
infidelity!—
and so instead had conjured them
with words,
for which, with words,
you gave me back a tongue
we dragged across the skin
of common thought.
Such is our lot,
our shared disease or gift.

“Emperor” Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance

As President Donald Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, his son-in-law Jared Kushner presented his vision of turning the Gaza Strip into an upscale seaside resort with gleaming skyscrapers and entirely new cities. The proposal is said to require an investment of at least $25 billion, and Kushner’s presentation showed a map of the besieged territory divided into different zones.

‘It’s a Really Scary Time’

On Friday night at a bar in Park City, Utah, a man approached Representative Maxwell Frost and said to him, “We are going to deport you and your kind.” The 28-year-old man then yelled a racial slur and punched Frost in the face before running away, according to court documents reported by KUTV and a social-media post by Frost.

Minneapolis Is a Second Amendment Wake-Up Call

Last week, as rumors swirled about an impending ICE surge that would target the Somali population in Maine, where I live, I called my barbershop to schedule a last-minute appointment. I didn’t want a haircut, but I worried that I needed one. I am a light-skinned Black American: My hair and beard are thick and curly. On Thursday, I had both cut extra short in an effort to look less like someone ICE might find interesting.

Pete Hegseth Should Stay Out of Minneapolis

This story was updated on January 24, 2026, at 8:46pm ET.
The Trump administration has once again immersed the United States in a crisis. The officers who are supposed to be protecting America’s borders have again been unleashed on an American city—this time, Minneapolis. The authorities in Minnesota want the Border Patrol and ICE forces to leave; the U.S. government’s response has been to continue to allow them to operate without any limits.

The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push

In the second Trump administration, immigration policy is made with big round numbers. There’s a formula: First the White House sets an ambitious goal—1 million deportations a year, 3,000 immigration arrests a day. Then it presses the federal workforce to meet the target. Last year, Trump officials pledged to double staffing at ICE by adding 10,000 new deportation officers by January 2026.

Trump’s Rift With American Allies

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Earlier this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech in Davos in which he spoke about the end of the American-led, rules-based world order.