ICE Raids, Trump Tweets, And Democratic Clashes
President Donald Trump in a series of tweets on Sunday wrote that four Democratic Congresswomen of color, including Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Three of the four women were born in the United States, and all four are American citizens. The development comes in the wake of threats from the White House of widespread immigration raids that did not seem to fully materialize Sunday, but which the Trump administration is still reportedly aiming to do over a longer period of time in the coming weeks. It also follows last week’s intraparty clash between Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and the same four congresswomen.
In for Jim Braude, Adam Reilly was joined by Tina Opie, associate professor at Babson College, and Jen Deaderick, author of “She The People,” an illustrated book of the women’s movement.
Has The Boston Globe’s Coverage Of DA Rollins Been Fair?
The Boston Globe’s coverage of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has come under fire from critics who say a recent article lacked context and spread misinformation about the impact of her plan not to prosecute certain low-level crimes. A letter of protest from 19 Boston-area academics says the story stoked “baseless fear and irrationality.” Was their analysis correct, or was the Globe just subjecting Rollins’ new approach to a reasonable degree of scrutiny?
In for Jim Braude, Adam Reilly was joined by Margo Lindauer, the director of the Domestic Violence Clinic at Northeastern University, and Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
Apollo 11 at Fifty Years Old
In 1969, NASA made history when it sent the first manned crew to the moon as part of the Apollo 11 lunar mission. Fifty years later, artifacts from that expedition are on view in an exhibition titled “Small Steps, Giant Leaps” at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, cataloguing humanity’s lunar longings dating all the way back to the Renaissance.
