| Dec 5, 2018 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric hasn’t just infected U.S. politics. Now it’s made its way south of the border. As a caravan of hundreds of migrants arrive in Tijuana, some residents there have started taking up Trump’s ideology. Juan Manuel Gastélum, the...
| Nov 7, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWith the Muslim Ban, the promotion of torturer Gina Haspel to CIA director, and increases in hate crimes, it’s been a rough year for us Muslims in the United States. So hearing the words “Salam Alaikum” as Ilhan Omar took the national stage on Election Night to accept...
| Oct 30, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump recently sent a threatening tweet in response to an estimated 7,000 migrants traveling together to the U.S.-Mexico border. If Mexico refuses to halt the caravan of men, women, and children seeking refuge, Trump warned, he’ll “call up the...
| Oct 23, 2018 | Editors Picks|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAs the GOP’s fears of a progressive wave in November grow, Donald Trump has made it his personal mission to make everyone else afraid, too. Over the past few week’s he’s been telling evermore fantastical tales of dangerous riffraff inching their way up to the U.S....
| Jul 9, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWhat goes around comes around. This familiar phrase explains why Central American families and children are coming up to our back door, seeking asylum in the United States. And they will keep coming — even if the Trump government resumes tearing small children away...