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FBI Director Kash Patel, right, and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speak about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment in April 2026. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images

Trump administration’s indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center breaks with norms – and may lack evidence of criminal wrongdoing

It’s unusual for federal authorities to take this kind of action when federal funding is not involved. And the SPLC does not accept government grants.
President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing the White House on April 16, 2026. Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images

Is Trump heading to a Pyrrhic victory in Iran?

Pyrrhus was said to have remarked that one more victory would leave his kingdom ‘utterly ruined.’ Some see echoes in US interventions in the Middle East.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio orders undocumented immigrants handcuffed together and moved into a separate area of Tent City in Phoenix on Feb. 4, 2009. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File

ICE’s heavy‑handed immigration enforcement was tried once before – by Arizona’s notorious sheriff Joe Arpaio in the early 2000s

The Trump administration’s immigration detention policies appear to be, in part, inspired by the heavy-handed tactics of the former Arizona sheriff.
A transgender woman takes part in an International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women demonstration in El Salvador on Nov. 25, 2019. Camilo Freedman/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)

How debate about gender identity could undermine global efforts to protect victims of violence

The US and some voices at the UN are calling for a narrow interpretation of gender to align with sex assigned at birth. That could leave vulnerable groups at risk.
Protesters gather outside a Boston courthouse in July 2025 to rally against the Trump administration’s freezing of contracts and grants to Harvard University. Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Trump administration’s lawsuits against Harvard and UCLA have roots in a decades‑old fight over civil rights law

In 1976, a small Christian college refused to comply with Title IX. The ensuing legal back-and-forth still matters today as the Trump administration places pressure on universities.
Newly arrived South Africans listen to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau deliver welcome statements in a hangar near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century‑long effort to keep some English‑speaking nations white

Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
The University of Florida in Gainesville is one of the universities that signed a memo agreeing to cooperate with ICE. Mireya Acierto

We teach at a Florida university that agreed to cooperate with ICE – and we worry that it is making our students feel less safe

At least 15 Florida state universities and colleges have signed agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that authorize campus police to carry out immigration enforcement.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi answers questions from the media at the U.S. Capitol on March 18, 2026. Matt McClain/Getty Images

What a US attorney general actually does – a law professor spells it out

The combined political and legal roles and responsibilities of the US attorney general can create conflicts. Some attorneys general yielded to political pressure from the president – many did not.
US Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee over “worldwide threats” on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 25 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP

Where is transatlantic intelligence‑sharing headed under the Trump administration?

An International Relations specialist looks at how cooperation between intel agencies on both sides of the Atlantic is holding up under Trump 2.0 and unprecedented geopolitical turbulence.

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