October 9, 2025

Hi everyone. Ian Gordon here with a special cover package for our November+December issue, "American Gulag."

The project investigates the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump’s immigration police state: the surge in funding and manpower, the troubling arrests by masked agents, the increasing use of problematic tech, the incessant cruelty of the messaging, and the shadowy profiteers cashing in on the administration’s anti-immigrant crackdown.

The package is a feat of fast, deep reporting, impressive data digging, eye-opening charts and graphs, compelling art, and smart packaging. And it couldn’t be more timely, in a moment when the administration is sending troops to Chicago, deporting migrants to Africa’s only absolute monarchy, and even threatening to arrest immigrants at the Super Bowl.

—Ian Gordon

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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