Aymann Ismail

Last month, I traveled to Minneapolis to report on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s presence. While there, I documented intense struggles between local residents and federal agents—an important story with deadly consequences. But I also heard constan... See more

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I am in the passenger seat of a stranger’s car in Minneapolis, four days after Renee Nicole Good was killed here. I’m riding with ... See more

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Trump administration’s justifications for bombing Venezuela and arresting its president shifted in real time this weekend. Was... See more

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It was around noon when I stepped off the train, surfacing into Lower Manhattan’s particular brand of winter blight—when the cold ... See more

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. On one abnormally warm February morning this year, a long-aspiring Trumpworld star entered the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Un... See more