U.S Customs and Border Protection has been detaining children in squalid conditions at the border. See which companies sell their goods and services to the agency and where they’re headquartered.
Civil Rights in America
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Fearful Symmetry: The Case of Abortion Rights
As the far right makes ever crazier demands, the mainstream press tries to be even-handed—and plays right into the hands of the Trumpies.
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Texas Tried to Mess with Voting. It Failed.
Grassroots organizers and civil rights groups banded together to stop Texas officials from denying the franchise to voters of color.
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A Trumpified Census Won’t Limit Its Undercount to Undocumented Latinos
The citizenship question will lead to undercounting millions of Latino, Asian, and immigrant households, many with legal status—and nowhere more so than in California.
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The Divider-in-Chief
Trump and his enablers would rather opponents focus on the ethnic, racial, and gender differences he uses to divide and conquer. Don’t fall for it.
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If We Thought Anti-Semitism Would Fade Away, We Were Wrong
The myth of the controlling Jew is so deeply part of Western history that demagogues of any political camp can exploit it.
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Resisting Trump’s Politicization of the Census
Trump’s intention is to undercount noncitizens, and Supreme Court conservatives appear on board.
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Reparations, Really?
Some of the 2020 Democratic candidates don’t have their priorities straight.
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The Highlander Center Won’t Let an Arsonist Extinguish Its Flame of Justice
The Tennessee training center has been a hub of the civil rights movement and progressive organizing since 1932. It appears that hatemongers have again tried to shut it down.
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Voting Rights Aren’t a ‘Power Grab,’ They’re Critical to a Functioning Democracy
This isn’t about partisanship: It’s about systemic racism.