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The school-to-prison pipeline has emerged quickly, but the corrosive effect of criminalizing children will be felt for generations to come.

Opponents of gun control spent the last twenty years undermining local approaches to gun policy.

Will Obama’s new immigration reform agenda lead to real changes for the millions of immigrants living in legal limbo?

What can we expect from comprehensive immigration reform? In this Nation Conversation, Aura Bogado breaks down the range of possibilities for America's undocumented.

It’s time to end the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians.

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.

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