It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 ...

On September 17, 2025, one month before I was to teach my annual social justice reporting class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the campus lowered its flag to half-mast in ...

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Mahmoud Khalil has garnered the most headlines during the crack-down on pro-Palestinian dissenters, yet he is not the only one. Americans are often mystified when doubt is cast on America being ...

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the detention cases of Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, and Rümeysa Öztürk, TC ’20, on Tuesday. Mahdawi was detained by Immigration and ...

Over 100 people dressed in black gathered at the 116th Street and Broadway gates on Monday to support Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, ahead of his Tuesday hearing—at which a ...

Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston is a Reagan appointee who has been on the bench for 47 years. Last June, he received a threatening postcard. Handwritten in all caps, it ...

Mohsen Mahdawi and Rumeysa Ozturk. Photos by Caleb Kenna/VTDigger and Rodrique Ngowi/AP A panel of federal judges heard arguments Tuesday in the ongoing court cases of two international students who ...

A federal appeals court in New York heard arguments Tuesday in cases involving two graduate students who claim they were unlawfully detained earlier this year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as ...

(NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court in New York will hear oral arguments Tuesday in cases involving two graduate students who claim they were unlawfully detained earlier this year by Immigration and ...