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Castillo is not a liberal—he’s a leftist with a social agenda.

Political factors such as ideology, the political party of the president who appointed them and who was president at the time they decided the case significantly influenced whether these children were allowed to stay in the country.

Working together as lead site investigators for CommuniVax, a national initiative to improve vaccine equity, we and our teams in Alabama, California and Idaho, along with CommuniVax teams elsewhere in the nation, have documented a variety of stances toward vaccination that simply can’t be cast as “hesitant.”

Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little assistance.

In towns across Israel, another important —and underreported— development is taking place. And it could change how we talk about Palestinians and Israelis.

Children and families have been fleeing to the U.S. for years, particularly from Mexico and the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Maritime farming and seafood-processing industries, typically reliant on foreign labor, will be hit hard by the ban, with Mexico and Jamaica among the top source countries of temporary foreign workers.

Migrant workers in Canada have suffered tremendously during COVID-19.

To date, Chile has ordered close to 90 million vaccine doses—enough to fully vaccinate its population of 19.2 million people twice.

Four experts explain how to recruit more people to become educators in the nation’s public schools.

Brazil is undergoing a strange racial reckoning after bombshell revelations that thousands of veteran politicians had changed their self-identified race between the 2016 and 2020 elections.

Can you be fired for joining a violent mob that storms the Capitol? Of course you can.

What will happen now? QAnon, along with other far-right actors, will likely continue to come together to achieve their insurrection goals.

The data is disturbing.

It is unlikely that Puerto Rico will achieve statehood any time soon.

The Latino population is more reluctant than most other groups to get the flu vaccine and often pays a high price with their health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all people, but not necessarily in the same way.

There are two recent high-profile examples of democracy in decline in the Americas: Peru and the United States.

During Fujimori’s corrupt military-backed rule between 1990 and 2000, Peru’s democratic institutions were dismantled and its democratic values subverted. Dissenters faced death, disappearance and torture.

Despite the veto, California’s struggle highlights a growing national movement to teach ethnic studies in K-12 classrooms.

Women will gain at least 14 seats in the 117th Congress, setting a new record for female representation.