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Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.
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.
The legacy of September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.
Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history.
East African countries host seven times more refugees than we do. Their policies look beyond their borders; so should ours.
Watch our release of the documentary short The Rifleman. Then read an interview with the filmmaker.
Noam Chomsky on the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the Biden administration.
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.
We need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.
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.”
The Fourteenth Amendment captures the idea that no people born in the United States should be forced to live in the shadows.
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