Law

Richard Falk UN

A Conversation With Richard Falk, Part 2 A Conversation With Richard Falk, Part 2

On Israel, Palestine, and his work as a UN special rapporteur.

Jan 31, 2018 / Patrick Lawrence

Trump Is Trying to Deport Her—She’s Attending His State of the Union

Trump Is Trying to Deport Her—She’s Attending His State of the Union Trump Is Trying to Deport Her—She’s Attending His State of the Union

Maru Mora Villalpando is one of a dozen activists attending tonight’s speech whose life hang in the balance.

Jan 30, 2018 / Julianne Hing

MuslimBan protest

How the Courts Have Stymied Trump How the Courts Have Stymied Trump

Along with citizen activism, they have proven to be an important safeguard of constitutional liberty—but the Supreme Court has yet to weigh in.

Jan 30, 2018 / David Cole

Las paredes de esta iglesia son lo único que separa a Amanda Morales de la deportación

Las paredes de esta iglesia son lo único que separa a Amanda Morales de la deportación Las paredes de esta iglesia son lo único que separa a Amanda Morales de la deportación

Episodio 1: La historia de una madre indocumentada y su lucha por mantener a su familia unida.

Jan 30, 2018 / Photo Essay / Laura Gottesdiener, Malav Kanuga, and Cinthya Santos Briones

The Walls of this Church Are the Only Thing Standing Between Amanda Morales and Deportation

The Walls of this Church Are the Only Thing Standing Between Amanda Morales and Deportation The Walls of this Church Are the Only Thing Standing Between Amanda Morales and Deportation

Episode 1: The story of one undocumented mother’s struggle to keep her family together.

Jan 30, 2018 / Photo Essay / Laura Gottesdiener, Malav Kanuga, and Cinthya Santos Briones

Ravi Ragbir Immigration Protest

Ravi Ragbir Was Freed by the Movement He Helped Build Ravi Ragbir Was Freed by the Movement He Helped Build

While it was a judge who ordered Ragbir released, it was immigration-rights activists who brought him home.

Jan 29, 2018 / Jake Offenhartz

George Zimmerman trial

In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong In the Legal System, Talking White Is a Precursor to Justice—and That’s Wrong

If the legal system keeps treating AAE as a lesser form of English, it can never claim to view black people with the same legitimacy as white people.

Jan 29, 2018 / StudentNation / Jordana Rosenfeld

LAX Protest

Trump’s Xenophobic Vision of America Is Inciting Racist Violence Trump’s Xenophobic Vision of America Is Inciting Racist Violence

Attacks against Muslim, South Asian, Sikh, Hindu, Arab, and Middle Eastern communities in the US were up a staggering 45 percent in 2017.

Jan 27, 2018 / Suman Raghunathan

Democrats Don’t Grasp the Dreamers’ Sense of Emergency

Democrats Don’t Grasp the Dreamers’ Sense of Emergency Democrats Don’t Grasp the Dreamers’ Sense of Emergency

Immigrant communities are demanding that Dems mount a fight that’s commensurate with what they rightly see as an existential threat.

Jan 26, 2018 / Joshua Holland

Anti-deportation protest

The 4 Most Shocking Proposals in the White House Immigration Plan The 4 Most Shocking Proposals in the White House Immigration Plan

Trump’s proposed DACA deal attacks bedrock principles of the immigration system.

Jan 26, 2018 / Julianne Hing

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