Despite legal and moral opposition, his administration is proceeding with plans to deny refugees entry—part of its larger project of banning Muslims any way it can.
The corrosive effects on American society of Trump's brand of neoliberalism and neofascism are more obvious every day. Any viable resistance must reclaim the social as part of its strategy.
It’s not just the “bad dudes” and others the president has maligned—Trump’s administration does not welcome vast numbers of those looking to gain entry to the U.S. for a particular reason.
After exhausting all of earth's resources, the superrich are ready to colonize other worlds.
European Union leaders will try to find common ground for tackling a growing political drama that is threatening to undermine the entire alliance.
Significant parts of an American language long familiar to us are going down the equivalent of George Orwell’s infamous Memory Hole, quite literally and in a remarkably coherent way.
Two teens fleeing violence in war-torn countries sought asylum in the U.S. A Texas dentist’s report helped ICE send them to adult detention centers.
Tom Sleigh travels to war zones and refugee camps, yet views intervention on his part as transgression. When does passivity become complicity?
As the Trump administration slashes refugee levels, an expert on Central America writes that U.S. foreign policy decisions across the region are at the root of the current refugee crisis.
Dutch conceptual artist Domenique Himmelsbach de Vries takes the plight of refugees as his latest project.
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