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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

A security guard checks cars at the entrance to Casa Padre, a former Walmart that is now a center for unaccompanied immigrant children, on June 24th, 2018, in Brownsville, Texas.

Social Justice

Inside a Housing Facility for Undocumented Children

Interviews with numerous former employees at facilities run by Southwest Key network, the largest licensed shelter provider for immigrant children caught crossing the border.

Kavitha Surana & Robert Faturechi

Environment

Why California’s Limit on Residential Water Use Doesn’t Really Exist

Lost in the excitement around the legislation is the fact that water agencies have no way to measure how much water their customers use indoors.

Matt Weiser

Environment

How Increasingly Severe El Niños Are Threatening Tropical Forests Around the World

And with tropical forests storing almost 250 billion tons of carbon, their fate has major implications for the Earth's atmosphere.

Claire Salisbury

The iconic Emirates Towers dominate the skyline beside the wide boulevard of Sheikh Zayed Road on December 3rd, 2007, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Economics

Migrant Women Workers From Nepal Are Taking Serious Risks to Provide for Their Families

In response to reports of the abuse of maids in the Gulf, Nepal made it illegal for women to travel to the region for domestic work in 2016—yet many still choose to travel abroad due to lack of economic options in their homeland.

Rojita Adhikari

Social Justice

What Makes Immigration Court Different From Typical Judicial Proceedings?

Essentially, normal assumptions about judicial independence and freedom from political influence do not apply in immigration proceedings.

Fatma Marouf

A man rides his bike past the shuttered Michigan Central Railroad Station November 20th, 2008, in Detroit, Michigan.

Economics

Ford Is Upping Its Stake in Detroit’s Downtown Revitalization

The company just announced its acquisition of the Michigan Central Station in downtown Detroit, an icon of the city's 20th-century glory days and its precipitous fall since.

Laura Bliss

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (L) and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence attend the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Social Justice

Inside the Epic Defeat of Kris Kobach’s Legal Argument for Voter Fraud

In Kansas, federal Judge Julie Robinson levied a decision that demolished the voter fraud argument that Kobach and his supporters have evangelized around the country.

Jessica Huseman