authoritarianism

Donald Trump holding a framed plaque next to María Corina Machado inside the White House.
Human Rights, Opinion / Legal Analysis, Politics

Empire Begins at Home

Renee Good’s killing was not an anomaly but a symptom. As authoritarian power consolidates at home while the world watches elsewhere, dignity is traded, institutions kneel, and humiliation becomes strategy. This is not foreign policy. This is domestic empire.

Portraits of Renee Nicole Good, poet, mother of three, and U.S. citizen killed by ICE in Minneapolis in 2026.
Human Rights, Politics

Renee Nicole Good and the Return of Empire

Renee Nicole Good was a poet, a mother, and a U.S. citizen. She was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. Her death is not an isolated tragedy but a warning sign of a political era sliding back into imperial violence, at home and abroad. Europe must respond with the power it already has.

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