Take Off the Masks

When government agents hide behind masks to intimidate the people they serve, we’re no longer looking at law enforcement—we’re staring straight into the face of authoritarianism.

Last May, I asked a simple question: Why are ICE agents hiding their faces?

I wasn’t being cute. I wasn’t trying to stir the pot just for clicks. I was watching my country slip into something that looks a lot less like a democracy and a lot more like a dictatorship. I wrote what I saw, and I still see it today, only now it’s worse.

I’ll say what I said th…