Republican Senator Lindsey Graham—sometimes called the most immigration-friendly GOP member of Congress—has called for ending the practice of granting citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. Other Republicans have...
The critic, journalist, and essayist has two new books just out—one a meditation on two anti-terrorist trials and what they tell us about our post-9/11 world (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny...
The uproar over a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan shows no signs of abating and is shaping up to be a divisive issue in the upcoming mid-term elections. Faiza Patel of the Brennan Center and by...
On July 29th, the State of Arizona is expected to implement the controversial immigration law, SB 1070. To stand in solidarity with those fighting the law, groups in New York have organized a march across the Brooklyn...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons operates two “Communications Management Units” - experimental prison units in Illinois and Indiana designed to isolate prisoners from the general population. Two-thirds of the prisoners...
Last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the State of Arizona to halt the enforcement of SB 1070, which is set to be implemented on July 29. Earlier this year the ACLU, MALDEF and the National...
Last week an estimated 15,000 people convened in Detroit for the US Social Forum, only the second such gathering to take place in this country. With over 1,000 workshops, fifty People's Movement Assemblies and...
Every year since the 2007 US Social Forum in Atlanta, organizers and members of community groups working in Chinatowns across the country have been meeting to discuss movement-building and sharing expertise and...
Plans to build mosques in downtown Manhattan near the World Trade Center site, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and in Midland Beach, trudge forward, meeting resistance at every step. This past Sunday, there was yet...
For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked about “severe...
