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Sandra Sanchez, a Honduran woman and asylum seeker, preparing lunch for her daughter.

Social Justice

The Real Intention Behind the Recent ICE Raids Is Intimidation

While only 35 arrests were reported during the most recent, multi-city raids, the campaigns have caused widespread fear and tangible impacts on the daily routines of immigrant families.

Sarah Holder

Social Justice

Trump’s Supreme Court Challenge Has a Historical Precedent

The story of President Donald Trump's short-lived threat to get a citizenship question on the census in defiance of the Supreme Court mimics the story of President Andrew Jackson and Worcester v. Georgia, decided in 1832.

Bethany Berger

A Portuguese woman keeps many of her belongings in a storage unit for fear of sudden eviction.

Social Justice

A New Law in Portugal Makes Housing a Right

The Basic Housing Law is a reaction to a significant and rapid escalation of housing prices and dearth of affordable homes.

Peter Yeung

A water intake pipe for oil sands operations leads downhill to the Athabasca River on April 28th, 2015, north of Fort McMurray, Canada.

Ideas

Why the ‘Necessity Defense’ Is Crucial to the Climate Struggle

Many Americans don't realize that breaking a law can sometimes be legally, as well as morally, permissible.

Kelsey Skaggs

Economics

Hedge Funds Have Remained Exempt From Money Laundering Regulations. Here’s Why.

Investment companies such as hedge funds and private equity firms have escaped multiple efforts to subject them to rules meant to combat money laundering.

Heather Vogell

Social Justice

What Does Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Mean for Women’s Reproductive Rights?

The deeply conservative judge's position on the court is one of many threats toward abortion rights.

B. Jessie Hill

Union activists and supporters rally against the Supreme Court's ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME case.

News in Brief

Nevada’s Unions Show How U.S. Labor Groups Can Adapt in a Right-to-Work Reality

Unions in the state have been unable to force public-employees to contribute to collective bargaining funds for almost 65 years, and yet they have managed to thrive.

Ruben J. Garcia