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Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.
Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.
Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.
The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.
Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
East African countries host seven times more refugees than we do. Their policies look beyond their borders; so should ours.
Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman on the NRA. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.
The Trump administration has rejected calls for mass humanitarian release and continues to deport detainees to Latin America.
When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots.
A leaked Homeland Security database confirms what many suspected: the U.S. government is trying to punish and intimidate people advocating for immigrant rights.
We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”
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