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Behind the agents, we could see our brothers and sisters watching from the Mexico side of the wall. We could hear them singing.
The racial wealth gap is real. But a guaranteed income is not going to fix it.
As an immigration attorney, I have reasons to feel defeated every day. I take solace in writing letters.
The camp was “one of the most soulfully powerful places I’ve ever been,” says a volunteer medic.
By opening up about her struggles with pregnancy, former First Lady Michelle Obama launches a public conversation about something many women suffer in private.
Purging the identity from federal websites makes transgender people more vulnerable to discrimination. Here's how you can help.
How marginalized groups are working to counteract historical wealth inequality.
Germany, Serbia, and Sweden hosted tens of thousands of migrants three years ago. Can the U.S. take a page from the EU as caravans mass at our border?
“Que sus días cambien pronto y que el amor que sus padres y familiares sienten por ustedes brille fuerte dentro de ustedes y les de fuerza.”
“That your days may soon change, that the love your parents and relatives feel for you glow inside you to give you strength.”
Election night’s most surprising Democratic victory defies the trend of a growing urban-rural chasm.
The story of the Central American refugees is so essentially American that it’s a wonder we can’t recognize how much they belong here.
Throughout history, the biblical story of Exodus has inspired people around the world fleeing persecution.
I want us to go humbly to the very people our culture tried to exterminate to listen to what they can teach us.
Drought, crop failure, storms, and land disputes pit the rich against the poor, and Central America is ground zero for climate change.
Philanthropic organizations invest about 93 percent of their money in Wall Street. But they are starting to make better choices.
A conversation with Edgar Villanueva on decolonizing the nation’s biggest charities.
How my hospital ID has become an “I exist” card.
No longer willing to collude in their oppression, Central Americans are coming to the U.S. in the open and en masse.
O+ Festival was created to address the lack of affordable medical care for a chronically underinsured population: artists and musicians.
Once upon a time, mesquite got no respect. Now this desert survivor is celebrated as a sustainable food source and a symbol of the borderlands.
And I spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re missing.
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