For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system targeting Muslims. It now reaches activists, immigrants, and the left.

For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system largely for Muslims. It now reaches immigrants and the left. Less than two weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, President George W. Bush told Congress that the war on terror “begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there.” Twenty-five years later, his line reads as a confession: the war on terror was designed to have no borders and no…

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