The Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was both a legal and cultural earthquake. It sent a powerful message that racism would no longer find refuge in the American Constitution.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

White House border czar Tom Homan pushed back on Monday against claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Border Patrol agents racially profiled suspects during raids. Speaking with ...

Today, the Supreme Court issued a "shadow docket" ruling staying a district court decision that had enjoined ICE from engaging in racial and ethnic profiling in immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.

Every liberal justice on the Supreme Court issued a scathing dissent in the decision to let ICE resume its racial-profiling tactics. The Supreme Court on Monday accepted another emergency request from ...

In May, presidential policy chief and certified nativist Stephen Miller called in all 50 ICE field directors and pitched a temper tantrum, as a source present at the meeting told the Washington ...

The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate roundups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing. An art installation that displays black-and-white images of people ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On Thursday, the Trump administration ...

On July 11, Federal District Court Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (Central District, California) issued an important ruling imposing a temporary restraining order racial profiling in "roving" ...

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Building, which connects to the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering, on a sunny afternoon in June 2025. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) The ...

Enactment of Donald Trump’s megabill will, among many other things, finance a huge expansion of the administration’s already torrid mass deportation of immigrants. When that happens, what for many ...