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Migrant Crisis
April 20, 2021
Laura Weiss
Biden’s Disturbing Acceptance of State Violence Against Central American Migrants
The eerily similar deaths of George Floyd and Victoria Salazar demonstrate how our own abusive police practices have been shipped abroad in the name of “deterring” migration.
October 20, 2020
Hilary Beaumont
The Anguish of Watching the Election From the Purgatory of a Border Camp
Asylum-seekers stranded in Matamoros, Mexico, have a plea for voters in November: Elect Joe Biden and “get us out of this hell.”
July 14, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Tragic Politicization of Hagia Sophia
Why Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s push to turn the structure into a mosque is such a loss
October 17, 2019
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Ben Ehrenreich
Sea of Troubles
Inside the effort to rescue Europe’s unwelcome immigrants
August 8, 2019
Paul A. Kramer
The Harsh World of Offshore Borders
How governments use “remote control” policies to prevent asylum seekers coming anywhere close to refuge.
July 5, 2019
Madeleine Wattenbarger
Did the Mexican People Really Win?
One year into the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president's militarized response to crime and immigration dims hopes for reform.
July 3, 2019
Matt Farwell
America’s Once and Future Concentration Camp
Postcards from a homeland outpost where Native Americans, Japanese-Americans, and now lone migrant children have been enemies of the state.
June 13, 2019
Madeleine Wattenbarger
Asylum Seekers Struggle to Navigate Trump’s Broken Border Policy
In Tijuana, thousands face danger, disease, and uncertainty under the administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols.
May 22, 2019
Matt Ford
A Presidency That Will Live in Infamy
While Washington debates Trump's legal maneuvers, his administration is committing acts of cruelty that dwarf impeachable offenses.
March 25, 2019
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Sarah Posner
Right Makes Might
Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe.
March 5, 2019
Piper French
Rescue a Refugee: Get Charged With Trafficking?
In Europe, governments are increasingly prosecuting people who help migrants.
March 1, 2019
Megan Janetsky
Do Venezuelans Actually Want U.S. Help?
Depends whom you ask, and depends on what kind of help.
August 1, 2018
Matt Ford
The Case for Migrant Reparations
How should the United States compensate the parents and children harmed by the Trump administration's family-separation policy?
July 3, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Rod Dreher’s Bad History
On the pernicious ideology at the heart of the conservative blogger's infatuation with Western civilization.
June 28, 2018
Kaila Philo
Merkel calls for the EU to cooperate on migration—which is way down.
June 22, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Trumps Don’t Care
The president can't see the cruelty of his immigration policy. It's not clear the first lady can, either.
October 31, 2017
Irene Hsu
Human Flow
Tries to Capture the Magnitude of the Migrant Crisis
Ai Weiwei's new documentary took two years and more than 200 people to make. Can it capture the plight of millions of refugees?
October 23, 2017
Rahel Aima
Ai Weiwei Takes on the Migrant Crisis
The artist's massive new work "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" examines the plight of refugees. But can it change public opinion?
October 31, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The Migrant Crisis as an ‘Echo From The News’
'Fire at Sea' documents what happens when refugees are completely removed from the fabric of daily life.
February 1, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Is this photo of Ai Wei Wei posing as the drowned Syrian toddler “powerful” or just kind of stupid?
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