Yvonne Abraham

4 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

Among the many rambling statements President Donald Trump made in the Oval Office during his meeting with Canadian PM Mark Carney on Tuesday, one stood out: The president took credit for Carney’s come-from-behind electoral victory on April 28. “I think I was probably the greatest thing that happened to him,” Trump said. For once, the president was telling the truth. According to early polls, Carney and his Liberal Party seemed destined for a humiliating defeat.

6 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

The Trump administration’s persecution of trans people — endorsed by the extremists on the Supreme Court on Tuesday night — is not just about trans people.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

“They can’t do anything. We’re recording them.”There is so much to abhor in the footage of federal agents smashing a car window in New Bedford to seize a Guatemalan immigrant on Monday. In the video, obtained by The New Bedford Light, the armed agents try to coax him out at first – “I want to talk, just talk,” one says. The man and his wife do not fall for that lie. They ask to see an arrest warrant, and are ignored. They calmly say they will get out of the car when their immigration lawyer arrives.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

Facts can be awfully stubborn things. And they’re especially inconvenient for the Trump administration. Why bother with a debate over the facts when you can fix it so they don’t exist in the first place? It’s much easier to deem racial health disparities a myth if there’s no longer a massive reservoir of government data showing otherwise, for example. And it’s easier to suggest vaccines cause autism if you scrub the data suggesting that theory is a massive and deadly crock.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Yvonne Abraham

When it comes to targeting immigrants, the second Trump administration — not yet 100 days old — has already achieved a level of sadism that makes its previous term look like a love-fest, family separations and all. In addition to detaining and disappearing students and migrants with valid visas and legal residency, Trump II is shredding constitutional rights and making a mockery of habeas corpus — assisted so far by the extremists on the Supreme Court who seem supremely disinclined to stop him.