CUNY Colleges to Get Anti-Discrimination Coordinators

CUNY Colleges to Get Anti-Discrimination Coordinators

By: Jonathan Custodio | thecity.nyc THE CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. Amid increased pressure from federal and state leaders, New York colleges must designate a staffer by next year to address hate crimes and discrimination under a new law applying to both public and private institutions. […]

Trump Administration Wants Mandatory Social Media Disclosure for Immigrants in Green Card and Citizenship Applications

Trump Administration Wants Mandatory Social Media Disclosure for Immigrants in Green Card and Citizenship Applications

By Mary Campbell | Editorial credit: sdx15 / shutterstock.com In a move that has sparked concerns over privacy and free speech, the Trump administration has proposed a policy that would require immigrants applying for green cards, citizenship, and other immigration benefits to disclose their social media handles. The policy, part of a broader immigration reform […]

Widening the Net: Trump Escalates Immigration Cruelty & Chaos; Takes Aim at Core Democratic Principles

Widening the Net: Trump Escalates Immigration Cruelty & Chaos; Takes Aim at Core Democratic Principles

Editorial credit: Marie Kanger Born / shutterstock.com  Washington, DC – The Trump administration continues to intensify its attacks on immigrants and refugees, aiming to stoke fears and make the lives of immigrant families so unbearable that they “self deport;” purging long-settled immigrants through unsparing detentions and deportations and laying groundwork for broader random mass deportations; […]

Can Congress Ban a Speech Platform to Prevent Chinese Government Manipulation? A Free Speech Analysis

Can Congress Ban a Speech Platform to Prevent Chinese Government Manipulation? A Free Speech Analysis

By Esther Claudette Gittens | Editorial credit: Rokas Tenys / Shutterstock.com The rise of platforms like TikTok and their alleged manipulation by the Chinese government has sparked fierce debate in the United States. Some argue that such platforms pose a national security threat due to potential propaganda, surveillance, and data harvesting. Others counter that banning […]

How Liberals Lost Comedy − and Helped Trump Win

How Liberals Lost Comedy − and Helped Trump Win

By Nick Marx, THECONVERSATION | Editorial credit: Artist Nadia Russ / shutterstock.com  Throughout the 2024 election cycle, reproductive rights were an electoral vulnerability for Donald Trump. Though popular with the Republican base, his appointment of antiabortion judges gave serious pause to many key voting blocs, including undecided young men. In pursuit of these voters, Trump’s strategy […]

Jury Acquits Daniel Penny in Chokehold Death of Jordan Neely

Jury Acquits Daniel Penny in Chokehold Death of Jordan Neely

By Gwynne Hogan, THE CITY | Editorial credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY While Penny left without addressing the press, Neely’s father expressed his heartbreak at the verdict. A jury on Monday acquitted Daniel Penny in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded F train in a killing that electrified the city.  Penny, a 26-year-old […]