The War on Immigrants
"It's Like Purgatory": How the U.S. Has Undermined the Promise of Asylum
An excerpt from the new book, “The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border and Beyond.”
World
Voices
Trump’s Nationalism Advances on a Predictable Trajectory to Violence. His Supporters Will Kill When They’re Told To.
Those who survived the bloody undoing of Yugoslavia saw the havoc nationalism can wreak. It is hard not to worry about its symptoms now.
Voices
Coronavirus Has Mexico's Workers Pinned Between U.S. Business Interests and Their President's Obsessive Austerity
The pandemic has been used to restrict immigration, violate labor rights, protect defense contractors, and double down on dangerous political rhetoric.
Voices
Boris Johnson's Coronavirus Lies Are Killing Britons
The British government’s failure to provide sufficient protective gear was preventable, and two investigations have revealed attempts to cover it up.
Voices
Watch: The Grave, Three-Pronged Crisis Crippling Brazil and Imperiling the Bolsonaro Presidency
The confluence of these crises has placed Brazil in the greatest turmoil and danger since its 1985 redemocratization.
The Coronavirus Crisis
First the Muslim Ban, Now Coronavirus — Iranian Families Separated by One Trump Order After Another
Trump’s latest immigration freeze puts families who have been waiting years to reunite in further limbo.
Secret Brazil Archive
Brazil Justice Minister Resigns Over Bolsonaro's Interference in Investigations — and Impeachment Talk Ramps Up
Sergio Moro was a key political ally for the president, bringing the Brazilian center-right into Bolsonaro’s now-crumbling coalition.
Trump Retweeted Praise from an Anti-Iran Hard-Liner Who Doesn’t Exist
”This is not and has never been a real person.”
The Coronavirus Crisis
Mehdi Hasan and Arundhati Roy on India, Narendra Modi, and the Coronavirus
Mehdi Hasan speaks with acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy about India’s response to the novel coronavirus.
As Africa Drowns in Garbage, the Plastics Business Keeps Booming
In a Kenyan dump overflowing with plastic waste, waste-pickers risk disease and injury to collect precious scraps for redemption.