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As he extends Trump-era policies, President Biden discovers that many voters are no longer willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

The thrust of American struggles has been to deracialize but not to decolonize. A deracialized America still remains a settler society and a settler state.

The Chinese Question and Chinese exclusion policies circumnavigated the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and supported the consolidation of British and American power over global emigration and trade.

The Court must decide whether rogue judges have the power to dismantle US foreign policy.

The Court’s decision on Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy upends decades of precedent warning that judges shouldn’t mess with foreign affairs.

Biden’s administration and the Democrat-led Congress are funneling the lion’s share of taxpayer money for “alternatives to detention” into an existing for-profit surveillance program — while spending little on community services.

Nearly 100 years ago, Congress passed a law making it a felony to reenter the US after being deported. Now a judge has found it too racist to be allowed.

Despite its pledges to aid Central America, the Biden administration continues to deny the United States’ role in destabilizing the region.

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If Biden and Harris are serious about addressing migration, they must go beyond the pitifully small increases in humanitarian aid to Central America to end more than 200 years of invasions that are at the root of these causes.