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Critics have an even more controversial nickname for ICE’s Everglades detention facility: ‘Alligator Auschwitz’

July 7, 2025July 7, 2025Sara Wood

President Trump and Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis had a giddy name for the temporary ICE facility they built quickly on an airstrip in the Florida Everglades: “Alligator Alcatraz.” “We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison,” Trump boasted July 1 as he toured the detention facility for […]

Democrats and Republicans split on Trump’s unilateral attacks on Iranian nuclear sites

June 23, 2025June 23, 2025Sara Wood

Lawmakers reacted largely along party lines to the Trump administration’s decision to attack three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night. Although supporters and detractors of the decision to bomb the three sites could be found on both sides of the aisle, members of the president’s party were more inclined to celebrate what one, Republican House […]

Everything ‘alt’ is new again: Watchdogs see a mainstreaming of far-right extremism

March 2, 2025March 2, 2025Sara Wood

Remember the “alt-right”? Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News. Groups that monitor extremism say that has changed, and that the extremes have become mainstream. They […]

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s pick to helm EPA, says he received bomb threat with ‘pro-Palestinian themed message’

November 27, 2024November 28, 2024Sara Wood

Lee Zeldin, the rising Jewish Republican star tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Environmental Protection Agency, said he and his family were among other incoming officials targeted with bomb threats, in his case, one that came with a pro-Palestinian message. The FBI said Wednesday it was aware of “numerous bomb threats and swatting […]

Shock jock Sid Rosenberg has become one of Trump’s most aggressive Jewish surrogates

October 31, 2024November 2, 2024Sara Wood

Sid Rosenberg was anxious, despite his decades speaking to the public, as he prepared to take the stage at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. “I was nervous, 100%, when I was about halfway down the red carpet, walking closer and closer to the podium and the microphone,” the conservative talk radio host […]

Differing political views in couples leads to conflict in relationships

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024Arsen Mayer

In today’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, in Israel as in the US, some couples decide not only not to marry a person with antithetical views – but even to split up over such disagreements. By one estimate, as many as 30% of Americans are in relationships with partners who do not share their political viewpoint. In the […]