Ami Bera: “It doesn't take a fiscal crisis--and it shouldn't take a fiscal crisis--for us to look at programs and evaluate programs…”

Right now, American scholar Min Zin remains wrongfully detained in China, and Beijing continues to target scholars, human rights advocates, and diaspora communities whose work or speech it finds unwelcome.

It's a different Republican Party, and, I think, shame on us as Democrats if we don't actually try to understand it.

RFK Jr. is driving out dedicated public health experts because they refuse to rubber-stamp his dangerous views on vaccines.

But those exchanges depend on trust and the ability to study, speak, and engage without fear of harassment or arbitrary detention.