Tag: migration
Migration and the shadow of war
How did the real story of a migrant boat disaster escaped our attention.
We must stop family separation—and we can do it now
The Biden administration has tools it can use right now to put kids and families first in immigration policy.
Temporary relief for millions of essential immigrant workers could be a...
Immigrant rights advocates will continue to take to the streets and pressure their elected officials to make good on their campaign promises for a pathway to citizenship.
The GOP’s border stunt isn’t helping anyone
Right-wing governors are following Abbott in confronting the migrating families with “Keep-Out” military-style force.
Climate change will make parts of the US uninhabitable. Americans are...
Research shows that climate damage will wreak havoc on the southern third of the country, erasing more than 8% of its economic output and likely turning migration from a choice to an imperative.
The story behind the world’s first private refugee sponsorship program
“There are seven countries right now designing programs based on what they’ve learned about ours.”
The other Mexican migration
Instead of building a senseless border wall to keep people out of the US, our leaders ought to be looking across the border for ideas on how to build a better healthcare system.
We already have a border wall. It’s an environmental disaster.
"We’ve inhabited this land for so long, since the beginning of time and so not allowing that migration to flow disrupts people’s systems. We know the impacts [the border wall] has already had on our environment.”
Supreme Court denies Trump administration’s ban on asylum for immigrants who...
The trump administration's ban conflicts with current immigration law.
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Despite media knocks, Maine’s Graham Platner qualifies as this year’s breakthrough Senate campaign star
Who knew a year ago that a scintillating Maine campaign could be a national spark plug to a new progressive movement?
Pendulum justice: The greater MAGA’s orgy of outrages, the more change looms
Under duress, wealth shares its spoils,/ But never forsakes its octopus coils.
US-Iran ceasefire deal opens fragile path out of war as Israel threatens to keep...
The interim framework could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and pause a war that killed thousands, but unresolved disputes over sanctions, Iran’s nuclear program, frozen assets, and Israel’s military operations leave the deal vulnerable before it is even signed.
A climatic presidency
Donald Trump gets hot, hot, hot.
Decades of research link pesticide use around homes, farms to childhood cancer
A new comprehensive meta-analysis published last month in the International Journal of Cancer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln analyzed findings from 88 epidemiological studies spanning more than 40 years.