Children descend on Senate to shut down Trump’s baby jails
Children wrapped themselves in Mylar blankets in solidarity with their peers being held in cages by the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2018Children wrapped themselves in Mylar blankets in solidarity with their peers being held in cages by the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2018MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle took Ivanka Trump to task for failing to do anything at all to help children being hurt by her father’s presidency.
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2018It doesn’t keep families from being separated — and if Trump has his way, he’ll be able to keep kids in cages for as long as he wants.
By Caroline Orr - June 21, 2018Rep. Kevin Cramer thinks people are being melodramatic about kids in cages.
By Matthew Chapman - June 21, 2018If anyone was confused about the sincerity of Trump’s effort to escape the bad press from ripping children away from their parents, his silence hours after signing his executive order sealed the deal.
By Tommy Christopher - June 20, 2018The White House remains in damage control mode.
By Eric Boehlert - June 20, 2018Trump’s executive order does nothing to reunite families. Thankfully, Americans are stepping up in droves.
By Emily Crockett - June 20, 2018Trump really didn’t like all the negative press he’s been getting for tearing families apart — so he held a photo op to pretend he had fixed it.
By Tommy Christopher - June 20, 2018By announcing he would sign an executive order to ‘keep families together,’ Trump is admitting what we knew all along — he is responsible for this human rights crisis, and he has always had the power to stop it.
By Oliver Willis - June 20, 2018‘Shocking,’ ‘disturbing,’ and ‘wrong.’
By Eric Boehlert - June 20, 2018When children gathered on the floor of the House to stand up against Trump’s attack on families, Republicans couldn’t handle it — and shut the whole place down.
By Oliver Willis - June 20, 2018Trump’s former right-hand man does just what you’d expect him to.
By Tommy Christopher - June 20, 2018She has the potential to reach millions in an instant, but Ivanka Trump has maintained silence.
By Oliver Willis - June 20, 2018The White House is spending a lot of money to tear children from their families.
By Eric Boehlert - June 20, 2018Michael Grimm, the ex-con running for his old congressional seat, is okay with ripping children from their families.
By Matthew Chapman - June 20, 2018‘If kids don’t eat in peace, you don’t eat in peace!’
By Caroline Orr - June 20, 2018Republican Sen. David Perdue says the thousands of children taken from their families in recent weeks are just a distraction from more important issues.
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2018‘What are you doing?!’ came the angry crowd response to Rep. Michael Burgess.
By Eric Boehlert - June 19, 2018Rep. Elijah Cummings delivered a searing appeal to his colleagues to stand up to Trump’s cruel policy.
By Tommy Christopher - June 19, 2018The State Department’s online event about family travel was overrun by people demanding to know why families are being ripped apart at the border.
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2018Most Americans hate Trump’s cruel policy — and demanding ‘compassion points’ for him on television won’t change that.
By Tommy Christopher - June 19, 2018Kelli Ward argued that it’s fine to separate children from their parents because ‘bad people’ exist.
By Matthew Chapman - June 19, 2018George Takei says Trump’s policy of ripping families apart is more cruel than what his family faced.
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2018The White House’s cruel family separation policy was not spontaneous, but long-planned as an election strategy.
By Oliver Willis - June 19, 2018Hundreds of United Methodists are demanding accountability from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
By Eric Boehlert - June 19, 2018Republicans are scrambling for cover as the controversy widens.
By Eric Boehlert - June 18, 2018Republican Gov. Charlie Baker is openly defying the Trump administration because of its ‘inhumane treatment of children.’
By Eric Boehlert - June 18, 2018Sen. Kamala Harris has had enough of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s lies about Trump’s policy ripping children from their families.
By Emily Crockett - June 18, 2018Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said kids detained at the border have all their needs taken care of. But the one need that matters most is their parents.
By Emily Crockett - June 18, 2018Sessions and Trump are holding children hostage.
By Tommy Christopher - June 18, 2018