Is comprehensive immigration reform finally about to become a reality? A bi-partisan group of eight Senators has brought the U.S. one step closer with the introduction of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and...
A widow whose husband’s killer becomes a customer in her restaurant, a man who discovers he can dial his old house in Vietnam simply by picking up the phone, and a father raising his young daughter alone in a California...
We’re used to hearing about factory closures in the US and all the jobs being shipped overseas to countries in Asia where workers can be paid far less and labor under far worse conditions. This is the basic labor...
After generations of military dictatorship, Burma has taken significant steps toward democratization in recent months, but the promise of reform has been undercut by explosions of sectarian and ethnic conflict. Last...
During the recently concluded presidential election, both candidates spoke little of foreign policy in favor of domestic issues, notably the economy. Given the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia," announced last...
Last year marked a triumph for the pro-democracy movement in Burma (Myanmar) as the country began to open up after decades of stifling military rule. But this lifting of censorship has exposed an ethnically intolerant...
It’s been decades since the US pulled out of Vietnam, but the environmental legacy of the invasion still lingers across the south of the country. During the 1960s, the US military doused the area with Agent Orange, the...
