Why Were These Interfaith Leaders Arrested at the US-Mexico Border? Why Were These Interfaith Leaders Arrested at the US-Mexico Border?
They were dragged away by the Border Patrol for bearing prophetic witness against the mistreatment of refugees and asylum seekers.
Dec 11, 2018 / Sasha Abramsky
Sanders and Warren Are Challenging the Post–Cold War Foreign-Policy Establishment Sanders and Warren Are Challenging the Post–Cold War Foreign-Policy Establishment
It is time to think anew. The United States needs dramatic changes in its policies and the institutions that enforce them.
Dec 11, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Notebook: Asylum Seekers Improvise a New Border Bureaucracy The Notebook: Asylum Seekers Improvise a New Border Bureaucracy
In Tijuana, migrants and officials are breaking the law to create some semblance of order.
Nov 30, 2018 / Lolita Brayman and Robert Langellier
They’re Refugees, Fleeing Gang Violence and Domestic Abuse. Why Won’t the Trump Administration Let Them In? They’re Refugees, Fleeing Gang Violence and Domestic Abuse. Why Won’t the Trump Administration Let Them In?
How one immigration case has led to a major impact on asylum claims.
Nov 28, 2018 / Laura Gottesdiener and John Washington
Caravan Migrants Carry Hopes Northward as Their Journey Resumes Caravan Migrants Carry Hopes Northward as Their Journey Resumes
Fleeing poverty and violence, three young men from Honduras join thousands who dream of better lives in the United States.
Nov 14, 2018 / Madeleine Wattenbarger
4 Years After the Forced Disappearance of 43 Students, a Father Is Still Looking 4 Years After the Forced Disappearance of 43 Students, a Father Is Still Looking
The disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa is not over for Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño.
Nov 12, 2018 / StudentNation / John Washington
Education Is in the Crosshairs in Bolsonaro’s Brazil Education Is in the Crosshairs in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
The president-elect seeks to ban from the classroom political opinions, debates, and any issues that could be construed as leftist.
Nov 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Michael Fox
Why the Refugee Caravan Is So Big—and What We Need to Do About It Why the Refugee Caravan Is So Big—and What We Need to Do About It
“Central America just couldn’t take it anymore.”
Nov 2, 2018 / Laura Carlsen
Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Supercharged Right-Wing Cultural Politics Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Supercharged Right-Wing Cultural Politics
The new president-elect is an agent of the world’s most reactionary tendencies, many of them exported from the United States.
Oct 29, 2018 / Greg Grandin
A Letter to Brazil, From a Friend Living Under Duterte A Letter to Brazil, From a Friend Living Under Duterte
Brazil is on the verge of electing a Duterte-style fascist. What can the left do?
Oct 26, 2018 / Walden Bello