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Detainees say officials give them little information and are not doing enough to reduce their risk.

'A growing concern about the disease, slight at first, then becoming deeper and more profound.'

Prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers can expect to see a largely “uncontrolled, unflattened curve” relating to the coronavirus outbreak, an epidemiology professor said.

Joe Biden has racked up endorsements from four of the largest — and most politically influential — unions in the past 10 days, a show of force that has bolstered his standing as the de facto Democratic nominee for president.

This book on modern immigration explores the complex relationship South Asian migrants to the U.S. have with the always contested notion of "whiteness."

Covid-19 ushers in a new political period. What does it look like?

We are experts in income inequality, and our new book, “Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance,” argues that inequality from the Recession has a lot to do with how the government designed its response.

Let the lieutenant governor of Texas, raring to sacrifice himself on the altar of the free market, become a grocery store worker. Let the CNBC pundits become retail cashiers.

"Lawmakers must respond to this pandemic in a way that yanks us back from the abyss and actually prevents future catastrophes."

Cuba's response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, even rich countries, to shame.