Amid stalled voting rights legislation in Congress, mass mobilization may be needed to provoke action.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Biden Administration ICE Contracts Encourage Forced Labor
A contract signed in April with the detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas, continues $1-a-day wages for those detained.
Posted inThe Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers
Embracing and Resisting: The Variable Relationships Between Worker Centers and Unions
In some cities, the two kinds of worker organizations frequently collaborate. In other cities, not so much.
Posted inLaw and Justice
⏩ David Dayen and Marcia Brown Discuss Rio Grande Controversy on The Young Turks
Executive editor David Dayen and writing fellow Marcia Brown discuss the controversial videos of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Despite Border Patrol Denials, Questions Still Loom Over Rio Grande Video
Was an immigrant crossing genuine or staged?
Posted inLaw and Justice
Did CNN Air a Staged Migrant Crossing of the Rio Grande?
An unusual video has been flagged by activists as deliberately manufactured to present a story of a border crisis, possibly with the participation of the Border Patrol.
Posted inLaw and Justice
⏩ Dispatches From the Border: Behind the Scenes
Watch writing fellow Marcia Brown’s behind-the-scenes videos of her on-the-ground reporting at the Matamoros asylum camp.
Posted inPolitics
The Crisis in State Governments Isn’t the Budgets, It’s the Governance
Statewide tax revenue paints a better-than-expected picture, but the political climate says something else.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Final Day of the Matamoros Asylum Camp
The Biden administration has prioritized clearing out this tent camp of migrants, some of whom have waited years to enter the U.S.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Quiet Winner of the Texas Energy Crisis
Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, is poised to profit heavily off Texas’s briefly surging energy prices during the snowstorm. The Biden infrastructure program could be its next conquest.