More than 7,000 Massachusetts residents have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the first 15 months of the Trump administration, a rate nearly five times that under the Biden administration.
Social scientists have been studying democracies backsliding into authoritarianism — and what works to arrest the slide — for quite a long time. They’ve analyzed more than 100 years’ worth of data to address these questions.
This is our Paul Revere moment. Sound the alarms. Light the lanterns. Spread the word that now is our time to ride.
