ICE impersonators are not a bug in the system; they are a feature, an entirely predictable consequence of the Trump administration’s attempt to create a violent division between native-born Americans ...

As the Puerto Rican economic recession approached its 10-year mark, the island’s government was preparing to unveil a new budget plan for the 2016 fiscal year. Recognizing the failure of spending cuts ...

Dawn Neely-Randall has seen many things in her 24 years teaching in Ohio schools, but 2014 was different. With the advent of the Common Core State Standards in Ohio, students had to take a pilot ...

On the campaign trail for the 2016 Presidential Election, then-candidate Donald J. Trump spared no words in expressing his opinion on Islam. In an effort to rationalize his promise to block the entry ...

In the current political climate, many disenchanted Americans have expressed, to various degrees of sincerity, a desire to escape to Canada. “If Trump gets re-elected, I’m crossing the border North.” ...

As the world leader in incarceration, the U.S. locks up more people per capita than any other nation. By the end of 2020, there were more than 1.8 million incarcerated Americans. Recidivism clogs the ...

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or ...

The origin of street art is as mysterious and obscured as the people who create it. Historians have traced its roots back to the 1st century B.C.E. when Roman citizens scribbled messages to each other ...

The United States claims to be “the land of the free,” yet its prison system says otherwise, representing a long history of oppression toward people of color. The United States prison system is one of ...

Charles W. Mills is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Born in the U.K. and raised in Jamaica, he is a leading thinker in social and political ...

Image by Himanshu More licensed under the Unsplash License. According to the latest data from the Migration Policy Institute, 2.7 million Indian immigrants live in the United States, with thousands ...

In recent years, adherents to the alt-right, a radically nationalist and xenophobic faction of the American right wing, have increasingly made their presenceknown, both in the digital sphere and in ...