The Springfield I know is not the one you hear about in social media rumors. It is a city made up of good, decent, welcoming people. They are hard workers — both those who were born in this country and those who settled here from Haiti.
Faiza Shaheen reviews the memoir of UK Labour party MP Diane Abbot, who has held her seat since 1987. She is the first Black woman to be elected to parliament, and is the country's longest-serving female MP.
Harris will almost certainly win the labor vote, but what will really matter is Trump's ability to cut into her margins with appeals to working-class voters on issues like immigration and trade.
Immigrants are becoming U.S. citizens at the fastest clip in years. New citizens say they are looking forward to voting in November.
Precarious immigration status creates an exploitable labor force, allowing bosses to drive down wages for everyone. Inside the labor case for open borders.
The wave of people claiming there’s a wave of “migrant crime,” where the term came from, and what we can do next
Stories of migration through food is a powerful way to challenge typical narratives; food can be a gateway to understanding where people come from. It’s a kind of portal to our memories.
A portrait of the byzantine madness of America and its cold, dispassionate systems regarding the immigrant experience.
It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.
What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery. The driving force in American politics in the decades after the American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic oligarchy in the South, built on God-ordained economic inequality.
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