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August 5, 2019
Adrian Carrasquillo
El Paso Has Exposed the Ugly Reality of the “Immigration Debate”
It's not about immigration. It's about race.
August 1, 2019
Matt Ford
Status Quo Joe
Biden seems to believe that everything in America was rosy until Trump took office, and he's offering himself as a time machine.
July 12, 2019
Matt Ford
Trump’s Day of Terror
His planned raid against undocumented immigrants on Sunday recalls some of the darkest chapters in American history.
July 5, 2019
Madeleine Wattenbarger
Did the Mexican People Really Win?
One year into the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president's militarized response to crime and immigration dims hopes for reform.
July 3, 2019
Matt Farwell
America’s Once and Future Concentration Camp
Postcards from a homeland outpost where Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, and now lone migrant children have been enemies of the state.
June 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
Pelosi Bows to Conservatives on Border Funding
In the name of party unity, the Speaker again sells out the Progressive Caucus—and stiff-arms the Democratic base.
June 27, 2019
Alex Shephard
Julián Castro was the first debate’s big winner.
June 27, 2019
Gregg Levine
Is cruelty a winner?
June 25, 2019
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Melissa Gira Grant
White Mom’s Burden
For years, Cindy McCain warned of dangerous men coming to enslave American women and girls. Now Trump is running with it.
June 25, 2019
Gaiutra Bahadur
The United States’ Debt to Immigrants
Suketu Mehta’s new book reckons with the colonialism and exploitation that have uprooted so many people.
June 19, 2019
Alex Shephard
Trump’s Kick-Off Rally Showcases What the President Does Best
Turns out the last refuge of a scoundrel isn't patriotism—it's racism.
June 13, 2019
Madeleine Wattenbarger
Asylum Seekers Struggle to Navigate Trump’s Broken Border Policy
In Tijuana, thousands face danger, disease, and uncertainty under the administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols.
June 13, 2019
Ed Burmila
The State of Emergency
If Trump wanted to give himself sweeping new powers, could anyone stop him?
June 5, 2019
Mark Weisbrot
Tariffs Are a Bad Response to an Imaginary Border Crisis
The migrants that do arrive in the U.S. are fleeing situations exacerbated by decades of bad American foreign policy. Tariffs on Mexico would continue that pattern.
May 22, 2019
Matt Ford
A Presidency That Will Live in Infamy
While Washington debates Trump's legal maneuvers, his administration is committing acts of cruelty that dwarf impeachable offenses.
May 21, 2019
Alex Shephard
Is Trump DOA in the Rust Belt?
A Republican "autopsy" of 2018 losses in Wisconsin shows a party struggling to reconcile racist policies with midwestern politics.
May 17, 2019
Matt Ford
The House of Roberts
If America is becoming a monarchy, it's not Trump who's king.
May 13, 2019
Matt Cameron
ICE’s Brazen Arrests Are Impeding Justice
Placing federal immigration agents in local courthouses is not only cruel and dangerous, it violates states' rights.
May 9, 2019
Aaron Miguel Cantú
Vigilante Men
New Mexico’s GOP establishment treats border militias as the good guys.
May 2, 2019
Alex Shephard
Democrats Can Win on Immigration
As Trump continues to stoke fear, 2020 presidential contenders have the opportunity to offer policy.
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