Opinion

Sanders comes to Vegas.

While Trump’s razor wire, rhetoric, and “national emergency” are an unwelcome and menacing display of fear and deception, U.S.-Mexico border communities will always be linked and continue to provide socorro for one another.

As a nation, we should do no less for a people who have given so much and yet have been recognized for so little.

“Our relatives are all considered ‘aliens,’” said the Yaqui elder and activist José Matus. “They’re not aliens…. They’re indigenous to this land.”

A lesson in solidarity and resistance.

The day we arrive in Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, the southern Mexican state that borders Guatemala, all is quiet.

This is my political life.

If the American ideal of a color-blind meritocracy is ever to truly exist in our college admissions, it’s clear we need to level the playing field long before the college admissions process starts.

No mames.

The New York Democrat has been insulted on a weekly basis since being sworn in after the midterm elections in 2018.

And it’s complicated.

I heard something I did not expect to hear from a patient as part of my bedside care.

Here on the militarized frontier, organizations like Border Angels, Al Otro Lado, human rights supporters and the journalists who come here to document history have been spied on.

Relations between the two countries are deteriorating fast, too.

People in Mexico have been generally supportive of the president’s measures to prevent theft, despite widespread shortages and explosions at pipelines where oil has stopped and tapping has occurred.

Donald Trump Jr.’s words were insulting not only to those who teach our children, but those who care for them following disasters, whether those disasters are natural or manmade.

He shouldn’t worry though. There are other fish in the sea—and some he doesn’t even have to fly all the way to Asia for.

The next act in the great drama unfolding in Venezuela will be determined by one central question: Will the unity forged in the opposition hold up?

Obama did not, in fact, have a policy of separating children, but he did have the practice of separating thousands of children from their parents.

Our research shows that these types of policies remain fairly common among liberal democracies.

This is how social change works these days in Cuba, my home country and the subject of my academic research.