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For Thanksgiving, America Stops Splitting Up Families Like Mine
Posted: November 27, 2014President Obama's executive order protects people like my grandmother. Image credit: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesTopics: Foreign PolicyImmigrationNationalismProgressive Media...
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Our Castro Complex
Posted: December 18, 2014From our 1963 archive, this piece explores the tension between the United States and Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Wechsler writes, "Indeed, there have been...
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Islam's Voices for Peace
Posted: January 7, 2015In 'Islam' Means Peace, The Progressive's managing editor Amitabh Pal reports on the history of nonviolence in Muslim societies around the world—a much-needed perspective today,...
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Decision Time for Marco Rubio
Posted: January 28, 2015Rubio is already in trouble with constituencies with whom he should be well-connected. Image credit: Getty ImagesTopics: CorporationsElectionsMoney in...
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Bobby Jindal’s Desperation Is Showing
Posted: February 6, 2015Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is trying hard to ingratiate himself with his base—too hard. Image credit: Kyle Plotkin/TwitterTopics:...
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The Nonthreatening Muslim: Navigating Immigration to the USA
Posted: February 9, 2015"Miss . . . Khan?”The customs official stops, looks up at me, looks back down at my passport, and hesitates. That’s always how it starts.Topics: CultureForeign PolicyHuman...
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As Oscars Near, 'American Sniper' Draws Protest
Posted: February 11, 2015“It’s important for people of conscience to be critical of the ways Hollywood perpetuates war and racism, quite frankly, through film." Image credit: Ed RampellTopics:...
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Wisdom From the Kitchen Table
Posted: March 9, 2015I come from a long line of strong women. Women who left home and made a new life in a foreign land. These women’s blood flows in mine. I know their stories because they were...
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The Extraordinary Cesar Chavez
Posted: March 12, 2015Editor's Note: This week in 1968, Cesar Chavez ended a twenty-three-day fast in solidarity with American farm workers, joined by four thousand supporters.Topics: ActivismFood and...
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Globalization and Its Discontents
Posted: March 17, 2015Writer Mohsin Hamid’s life has straddled three continents. His new collection of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches From Lahore, New York, and London, taps his...
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Ted Cruz Has Nothing to Offer the Country
Posted: March 26, 2015Imagine a politician so desperate to stay relevant that he runs out and takes the most contrary position possible to any rational argument. We don’t have to imagine, though, since...
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In Immigration Debate, Candidates Stake Ground but Miss Point
Posted: May 19, 2015More and more Republican presidential candidates, declared and undeclared, are entering the immigration reform debate.Topics: Civil RightsCriminal...
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Chattanooga Shooting Fuels Anti-Muslim Reaction
Posted: July 25, 2015Photo by Matt DiGirolamoTopics: GunsImmigrationArab AmericansReligion
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Tragic Numbers
Posted: September 10, 2015With the publication of the incredibly powerful photograph of Aylan Kurdi, the boy who drowned while fleeing the fighting in Syria, let’s hope the world pays attention to that...
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Immigrant Food Workers Deserve A Break Today
Posted: October 13, 2015If there is one common language across the food system in America, from the fields to the dishwashing rooms, it is Spanish.Topics: Food and AgricultureImmigrationLatinos
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No “Moderates” in the GOP Field
Posted: November 24, 2015In the Republican presidential primary, they put smiley faces on policies that would be devastating to all of us.Topics: ElectionsImmigrationRepublicansLatinosWomen's Rights
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Registry for Muslims Has Already Created A Decade of Profiling and Fear
Posted: November 30, 2015Did Special Registration for Muslims make us safer? Hardly. And the negative impacts linger.Topics: Civil RightsImmigrationNational SecurityArab Americans
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Homeland Security Targets Families Seeking Asylum
Posted: January 7, 2016A person fleeing persecution is supposed to present herself to an immigration officer to claim asylum. Following the law is not illegal.Topics: ImmigrationLatinosLatin America
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Marco Rubio's Florida Problem
Posted: January 14, 2016Could Rubio save the GOP from its third consecutive humiliating defeat in the quadrennial struggle for the White House?Topics: ElectionsVotingImmigrationRepublicansRightwingLatinos
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Wisconsin is Not Arizona!
Ruth Conniff14,000 people converged on the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin to protest anti-immigration bills proposed in the Senate.Topics: ActivismImmigrationLatinos
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