Marcia Brown is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. Her email is mbrown@prospect.org.
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Did Pete Buttigieg Get Hidden Campaign Support From a Real-Estate Developer?
An allegation of a campaign finance violation in Rhode Island highlights Buttigieg’s backsliding on campaign finance transparency. Read more
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What’s the Next Step for Equal Rights?
Virginia plans to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment next year, kicking off a battle over its fate. Read more
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An Outcry for Action
Extinction Rebellion’s solution to climate stalemate involves a radical change to how government works. Read more
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This 27-Year-Old Candidate for Congress Plans to Tackle Everyday Gun Violence
Robert Emmons Jr. is challenging 27-year incumbent Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary. Read more
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Filipino Workers Who Refused to Break a U.S. Strike Now Jailed for Union Activism
The Duterte regime plants ‘evidence’ on call center union members who declined to scab when U.S. workers walked off the job. Read more
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Canada Must Decide Whether the U.S. Is a Safe Country for Migrants
The ‘safe third country’ agreement between the U.S. and Canada is on trial in Canada’s federal court. New Democratic Party MP Jenny Kwan says the agreement, which makes it harder to apply for asylum, is immoral. Read more
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‘We Own This’: Trump Administration Defends Decision to End DACA in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
The case rests on whether that decision is reviewable by the courts or not. Read more
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Protests in Canada as Federal Court Hears Key Immigration Case
Arguments began Monday on Canada’s ‘safe third country’ agreement with the U.S., but protesters and plaintiffs argue that the agreement should be immediately suspended. Read more
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Democrats Bet That Virginians Are Ready for Gun Safety
At a forum in southeastern Virginia, candidates embrace a cause that once was political poison. Read more
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Will Virginia Go Blue?
While Democrats win its statewide elections, Republicans have clung to a narrow legislative majority. But next week’s elections may end their reign. Read more
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‘Why We Wear Red on Thursdays’
Unlike other unions over the last 30 years, CWA has continued to strike—and continued to win. Their enduring preparedness starts with something as simple as wearing red. Read more
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An Obscure Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications for Undocumented Immigrants
The Court heard a case about whether to allow states to set immigration policies. Here’s what it was like inside the courtroom. Read more
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Federal Judges Have Stopped Trump’s Scheme to Block Millions of Legal Immigrants
The ‘public charge’ rule won’t take effect today. But its origins show the Trump administration’s true intent. Read more
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Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico Have Staged a Protest. These Are the Conditions They Endure.
In refugee-style camps from Matamoros to Tijuana, hundreds of asylum seekers are forced to wait under the Remain in Mexico policy—with dangerous implications for public health. Read more
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How Immigration Courts on the Border Could Become (and May Already Be) a ‘Deportation Machine’
As part of Trump’s Justice Department, immigration courts are compelled to enforce his political agenda. Read more
Victor Juhasz
Cancel Student Debt—Almost All of It
An obscure, decades-old provision called “compromise and settlement” authority could allow the Department of Education to opt out of collecting trillions in debt. Read more
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How Mexico Is Doing America’s Deportation Work for Us
Seeking to relieve the pressure from asylum seekers in border towns, Mexico bused asylum seekers south. The country’s practices could violate international law. Read more
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Why Sonia Sotomayor Fears for the Judiciary—and for Justice
Last week, Trump took his fight against asylum seekers straight to the top, and the Supreme Court okayed it. Sotomayor and Ginsburg thought that set a scary precedent. Read more
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African Asylum Seekers to the U.S. Stuck on the Mexico-Guatemala Border
Long-distance victims of Trump’s war on immigrants, African migrants have few options for refuge and fewer ways to support themselves while they wait. Read more
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New Jersey Moves to Rein In Wasteful Tax Breaks for Businesses
Inspired by a recent Kansas-Missouri pact, Garden State lawmakers may warm to reforms that scale back competition with New York and Pennsylvania over jobs. Read more
