New Today -- 20 February 2017

Perspective

Seventy-five years after FDR's Japanese internment order, Trump prepares mass immigrant roundup

The attack on immigrants has been prepared by both the Democratic and Republican parties, which have jointly cultivated a climate of anti-immigrant xenophobia to advance their policies of war and social counterrevolution.

News & Analysis

Trump White House under mounting pressure from anti-Russia campaign

Seven congressional committees are now engaged in investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections, including contacts with the Trump campaign.

After one month of the Trump administration, protests continue across the US

Thousands protest in Boston against Trump's threats to science

US-European tensions remain despite reassurances on NATO

US conducts show of force in South China Sea

Huge demonstration in Barcelona in defence of refugees and open borders

Proposed Trump state visit provokes crisis in British ruling circles

Federal reserve report reveals exploding levels of US household debt

Arizona invites lawyers for death row inmates to provide execution drugs

Baltimore public schools face $129 million budget deficit, plan mass layoffs

Iowa makes massive mid-year budget cuts targeting public education

Indiana governor declares disaster in East Chicago over lead contamination

Anger grows over Michigan school closures

IYSSE

Student representative body denounces right-wing positions of professors at Berlin's Humboldt University

The election of Donald Trump, the danger of war and the political tasks facing young people

Commentary

A reply to New York Times op-ed author Myles E. Johnson on racialism and "critical thinking"

Arts

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Bruckner symphony cycle in New York

Workers Struggles

New York transit union pushes through concessions contract