Issuing ID cards to immigrants and citizens alike, liberal New Haven charts a course for cities that want to treat immigrants like people.
Mara Revkin
Mara Revkin is an editorial intern at the Prospect.
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Day Laborers Rally in Virginia
Workers and their allies gathered to protest the impending closure of a day worker center that allowed them to safely seek employment, regardless of immigration status.
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RUPERT MURDOCH’S MSM-PIRE HAS ARRIVED.
RUPERT MURDOCH’S MSM-PIRE HAS ARRIVED. It looks like the media mogul has finally bullied the Bancrofts into submission. The New York Times reports that the family has tentatively authorized Murdoch‘s $5 billion buyout of The Wall Street Journal‘s publisher, just months before the debut of Murdoch latest on-air venture, the Fox Business Channel: For Mr. […]
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Offering Noncitizens a Local Identity
With immigration reform stalled at the national level, cities are issuing municipal ID cards to all residents — even those who aren’t U.S. citizens.
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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY UNDER FIRE.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY UNDER FIRE. Public health advocates warn say that Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) is expected to introduce an amendment to the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill that would divert funding away from NIOSH, the agency charged with defining and enforcing occupational safety regulations. The amendment would restrict the sole source of federal support for NIOSH’s Occupational […]
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Suppressing the Truths of War
A new documentary about war correspondents shows how hard it is for them to get their stories on air and in print.
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WATER ICE ON…
WATER ICE ON A HOT(TER) PLANET. Our planet’s ice caps may be receding at a rate of 9% per decade, but Mars’ “frigid arctic landscape”
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AND 1,774 MORE JUST LIKE THEM.
AND 1,774 MORE JUST LIKE THEM. Yesterday afternoon a bevy of child-bearing Republicans and their bewildered male companions convened at the Independent Women’s Forum to lament the scientifically documented “patriotism gap” that is corrupting our nation’s young people. The crowd laid waste to a hydrogenated red-white-and-blue cake while Myrna Blyth and Chriss Winston signed copies […]
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THE IDIOT’S GUIDE…
THE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO IMPERIALIST ETIQUETTE. Friday pop quiz: American success or failure in Iraq may well depend on whether the Iraqis (as the people are called) like American soldiers or not. The preceding statement was excerpted from: A) The Iraq Study Group Report (2006)B) Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam’s Iraq (1990)C) […]