How Trump radicalized ICE: A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top — inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy. How ICE uses cruelty and fear to encourage self-deportation. Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants (and more). Julissa Arce on how Trump hides his plutocratic agenda with racist scapegoating. Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross accused of stealing $120 million, stuffing pockets with free Sweet’N Low packets. What’s even worse than the swamp? The company that Trump kept. Paul Waldman on Rick Gates, Wilbur Ross and the lure of Trump corruption. One lesson of the many brazen, conspicuous scandals related to President Trump and others in his orbit: The U.S. government has been massively underinvesting in enforcement and prosecution of white-collar crime.
