In the detention centers and the separation of immigrant families, we can see how the fragile protections of the Constitution and the courts and the ideals of our nation are endangered by a reckless president.
The government of this island nation—like the government in nearby India—responds minimally or not at all to violence against minority Muslims.
A Human Rights Commission report says almost 40 percent of Muslim, Jewish and Sikh residents of the city surveyed had experienced some kind of harassment.
Historians and critics on both sides of the Atlantic say the president's comments, which included calling immigration "a very negative thing for Europe," will encourage white nationalists.
The Democratic Party claims to support the interests and campaigns of black and brown, but if it doesn’t make good on that story, it’s no better than the opposition.
The president’s furious contemporary rants and rallies, along with the cages for immigrants, have certainly brought Nazism to mind, but it might be more illuminating to think of them as echoing an earlier moment in history.
Racial diversity in the hands of the ruling elites—political and corporate—is a tool for preserving white privilege, wealth and power.
We have not seen such overt racism from a president since Woodrow Wilson.
American organizers legitimize Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, who is at the heart of the extremism plaguing his country.
Americans who are rightfully outraged with Trump and his administration’s injustices have every right to nonviolently protest and show their dissent.
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