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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.
The Haitian migrant crisis at the southern border is only the latest stage in a decades-long legacy 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.
Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. 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.
A leaked Department of 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 was shaped by freed blacks’ insistence that everyone born in the United States deserved full citizenship.
It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.
The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.
A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.
Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.
Following the 2014 immigration crisis, Valeria Luiselli began volunteering at a New York City immigration court. This is what she heard.
Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.
Public safety is precisely why sanctuary cities are a good idea.
For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.
Refugee scholars in Europe face tremendous obstacles. Now some universities are trying to change that.
Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.
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