Politicians like Ken Paxton, who just secured the Republican nomination for a Texas Senate seat, have built entire careers turning trans Texans into political prey. Not because trans people represented any meaningful threat to the state, but because fear is useful when you have nothing else to offer and when people get a little tired of racism.

That does not mean they do not still use…

It’s good that the federal occupation of Minnesota is ending. But the Trump administration shouldn’t be allowed to pretend it never happened. Justice would require a wave of impeachments, criminal charges, and restitution to the people of the Twin Cities.

The bare minimum of justice would mean serious efforts to repair the damage ICE has done in Minnesota and bring the people who…