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Half a Million American Minors Now Live in Mexico

Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, Nicole Denier The Conversation
The migration of U.S.-born minors from the U.S. to Mexico presents unique challenges to the minors themselves, as well as to their families and their communities.

Children Change Their Parents’ Minds About Climate Change

Lydia Denworth Scientific American
“These encouraging results suggest that not only are children increasingly engaged in advocating for their future, they are also effective advocates to their parents,” says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe

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Why Reds Were Better in Bed

Ann Schneider The Indypendent
A counterintuitive if rigorous argument that the sex lives of men and women under the Soviets were better than those in the capitalist West, based on the system's ability to deliver the sort of social benefits unavailable even in Scandinavia.

Child Detention by Israel

Addameer Addameer
In 2017, the number of Palestinian children detained in Israeli prisons reached 1467 children from various parts of the Palestinian territories. Moderator's NOTE: Sound familiar?

Migrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City

Caitlin Dickerson The New York Times
These midnight voyages are playing out across the country, as the federal government struggles to find room for more than 13,000 detained migrant children — the largest population ever — whose numbers have increased more than fivefold since last year
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