The decline of industrial unions and significant demographic changes portend challenging times for the region’s Democrats.Â
Immigration
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There Is No Border Crisis: There Are Frightened Children, Fleeing Death
America’s response to child refugees from Central America is downright shameful.
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7 Foreign Policy Crises That Show Republicans Prefer Disaster to Solutions
Leaders like Cheney seem more concerned with appearing muscular than solving global conflicts. In fact, attempt a solution, and you’ll be called weak.
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Katrina v. Border Crisis: The Trouble With ‘Optics’
It isn’t only that we talk about image when we should be talking about substance. It’s also that we don’t understand what images do and don’t do.
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Why There Are No Easy Answers to the Latest Border Dilemma
A chronic problem becomes acute, and ideas for what to do about it are in short supply.
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Shifting Tactics, Moral Monday Movement Launches a New Freedom Summer
Fifty years after the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman, North Carolina activists move from civil disobedience to big voter mobilization push.
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Watch Paul Waldman on Washington Journal
See the Prospect’s contributing editor not react to a caller’s assertion of a particular sort of enagement by members of a political party with a moose appendage.
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Photo Essay: Moral Mondays’ Potent Symbols and Creative Actions
So far in the 2014 North Carolina legislative session, lawmakers have witnessed weekly actions: a silent protest, a sit-in in the Speaker’s office, and prayerful bread-breaking by the activists of the Moral Monday movement, chronicled here in a photo
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Meet the Billionaire Brothers You Never Heard of Who Fund the Religious Right
The Wilks brothers, whose fortune comes from fracking, give tens of millions to right-wing groups and anti-choice “pregnancy centers,” anti-LGBT groups, and organizations affiliated with ALEC.
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Eric Cantor Defeated and Nothing Changes — Not Even Prospects for Immigration Reform
Yes, immigration reform is probably dead for now. But it was probably dead yesterday, even before Cantor was vanquished.
