By Jacob Horwitz Dilhani worked for six years in a Sri Lankan factory that makes clothes for Nike. She is one of millions of South and Southeast Asian garment workers in Big Fashion companies’ supply…
Ecological Restoration By Josephine Woolington In 2000, Sam Lea converted his once-productive Willamette Valley onion field back into wetlands. The third-generation Oregon farmer excavated several ponds and largely left the land alone. Soon, willows arrived…
Demolished Lies About Immigration Commentary by Will Bunch From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working. The youngest of eight children,…
Is U.S. Imperialism By Suyapa Portillo Villeda and Miguel Tinker Salas When we first heard about Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to address the “root causes” of migration in Central America and Mexico, we thought…
The world isn’t ready yet to meet people’s changing needs By Julie Watson TIJUANA, Mexico (AP)—Worsening climate largely from the burning of coal and gas is uprooting millions of people, with wildfires overrunning towns in…
Instead, Private Prisons Benefited By Ted Hesson, Mica Rosenberg and Kristina Cooke PHILIPSBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug 7 (Reuters)—As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention, saying: “No business should profit…
Solitary confinement is torture. By Rachel Reed People held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, were placed in solitary confinement 14,264 times in the past five years alone—a stunning figure that is likely…
By Heidi Altman For too long, extremist lawmakers and commentators have shaped the immigration debate through misinformation and rhetoric that demonizes people seeking safety and a better life. The result is a punitive, enforcement-oriented approach…
Commentary by Nicolai N. Petro and Ted Snider If diplomacy is to have a chance at settling this bloody conflict, then four persistent myths about the war in Ukraine need to be exposed and refuted….
Commentary by Chris Hedges The prosecution for the U.S., which is seeking to deny Julian Assange’s appeal of an extradition order, begun by the Trump administration and embraced by the Biden administration, grounded its arguments…