Undocumented activist Marco Saavedra talks with The Nation's Francis Reynolds and Aura Bogado about the struggle to crack open an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. 

As Roe v. Wade turns forty, NARAL seeks to mobilize a younger generation of activists.

Rejecting proposals to tighten borders, a network of grassroots groups calls for reform based on “human, labor and civil rights for all.”

To be decent, an immigration reform bill must set out a path to citizenship that isn’t paved with broken glass.

The president's inaugural address touched all the important bases, except one.

Whatever reform passes in Washington, poverty in the global South will continue to drive migration.

State Assemblyman Dov Hikind was deeply involved in the Jewish Defense League, which the FBI listed as a “violent extremist Jewish organization.” Other officials should be questioning him, not the college.

How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.

Post-legal drones, the bin Laden Tax and other wonder of our American world.