For One Separated Couple, Trump’s Updated Muslim Ban Offers No Fixes For One Separated Couple, Trump’s Updated Muslim Ban Offers No Fixes
Basheer Othman still can’t join his wife in the United States.
Mar 7, 2017 / Julianne Hing
Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans Donald Trump Is Trying to Play Black Americans
But we are not going to be played like this.
Mar 7, 2017 / Collier Meyerson
The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again The Real Goal of Trump’s Travel Ban Is to Make America White Again
White House adviser Steve Bannon insists that Muslims don’t have the right “DNA” for democracy.
Mar 6, 2017 / Joan Walsh
Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump Daniela Vargas’s Detention Shows How Vulnerable DREAMers Are Under Trump
When Obama was in the White House, the safest place for young undocumented immigrants was in the public eye. Vargas’s detention shows that’s no longer true.
Mar 2, 2017 / Julianne Hing
Donald Trump Is Making America White Again Donald Trump Is Making America White Again
His executive orders target minorities, and his rhetoric has licensed hate crimes.
Mar 2, 2017 / Column / Laila Lalami
After a Century of American Citizenship, Puerto Ricans Have Little to Show for It After a Century of American Citizenship, Puerto Ricans Have Little to Show for It
Puerto Rico has never been more than a profit center for the US. Now an unelected board governs the island as a de facto collection agency for hedge funds and Wall Street speculato...
Mar 2, 2017 / Nelson Denis
Don’t Believe Trump’s Softer Tone on Immigration Don’t Believe Trump’s Softer Tone on Immigration
Behind his sanded-down rhetoric, there is no deviation from standard anti-immigrant Trump to be found.
Mar 1, 2017 / Julianne Hing
Q&A: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and the Women’s Strike Q&A: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and the Women’s Strike
Her new book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, has become essential reading for 2017.
Mar 1, 2017 / Q&A / Sarah Leonard
Why I’m Bringing DREAMer Lupe Salermón to Trump’s Speech Tonight Why I’m Bringing DREAMer Lupe Salermón to Trump’s Speech Tonight
DACA recipients like Lupe are bravely speaking out at a moment when many are telling them to lie low.
Feb 28, 2017 / Rep. Mark Pocan
The Ways to Destroy Democracy The Ways to Destroy Democracy
A new biography of Hitler offers us a warning from history.
Feb 28, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Richard J. Evans