March 2025

Lawyers representing Mahmoud Khalil, the recent Columbia graduate arrested by ICE this weekend  for his pro–Palestinian campus activism, will appear before federal District Court Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan Wednesday morning. Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian graduate student who served as a key negotiator for Columbia students demanding the university divest from companies that support Israel’s […]

The glass bottles that Annie Bassin uses to bottle her wellness beverage come from China and became 25% more expensive when President Donald Trump imposed a tariff during his first term. Now that he has added another 20% tariffs to goods coming from that country, Bassin sees little choice but to raise the price on

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As Principal Mark House greeted students at the John F. Kennedy campus in the Bronx last month, a student staggered toward him, face covered in blood. Initially, House thought the 16-year-old had been in an accident and started escorting him to the on-site health

The sirens from an ambulance woke up Sade Greene at the Lenox Terrace apartment complex at the beginning of the month. The bell had rang for her famous neighbor down the hall, 92-year-old Hazel “Ma” Dukes, who Greene recalled as a “great mother bear” always asking her about her family.  Dukes, the longtime civil-rights leader

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In the fall of 2022, the New York Police Department began posting videos online to promote one of its latest initiatives: the Community Response Team, an elite unit formed under the city’s new mayor, Eric Adams. Punctuated by dramatic music and quick cuts, the first video, dubbed “True