3 Jun, 2022
Chaos or Community
Fifty-five years ago this month, Martin Luther King, Jr. published his fourth and final book: “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”
3 Jun, 2022
23 May, 2022
A reckoning for workers this November
Among the issues facing voters in the coming midterms are ones all too familiar to working people.
2 Apr, 2022
Grocery workers who are food insecure
Though labor unions continue to rack up significant victories, the most recent being a successful organizing vote at a Staten Island Amazon facility, there are still immense challenges facing workers in an economic and political landscape strongly tilted in favor of employers.
24 Mar, 2022
The deep connections between democracy and nonviolence
In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy.
25 Jan, 2022
Unions Must Help Salvage Democracy
If you’re a Texan with a disability, and you need someone to help you fill out your ballot in a polling place (it’s gotten more complicated for you to get a mail-in ballot), your assistant must fill out a document indicating his or her relationship to you...
31 Dec, 2021
Why the Path to Citizenship Remains Blocked – and Why It Matters
One of the signal stories of 2021 was a narrative of unfulfilled promise: the promise by a new president to open a path to citizenship to 10.2 million immigrants – and the thwarting of that promise by the politics of a particular historical moment...
23 Nov, 2021
Which immigration story will prevail?
Like a gravitational field, there’s a narrative that exerts a powerful pull on U.S. immigration policy...
22 Oct, 2021
Democrats: Don’t Compromise on a Path to Citizenship
Congressional Democrats are now considering a watered-down version of immigration reform, a version they might hope to send through the budget reconciliation process as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” spending bill...
8 Oct, 2021
Vice-President Harris: It’s Your Turn to Step Up for Immigrant Rights
Vice-President Kamala Harris has an opportunity. More than at any time in the recent past, Congress and the Biden administration have the means to open a path to...
21 Sep, 2021
A Setback for Immigrant Rights – and a Reminder of Our Hollowed-Out Democracy
On Sunday, September 19, the U.S. Senate's parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, ruled that a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants wouldn't have enough budgetary impact to qualify for a "fast-track" decision-making process as part of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill now before Congress...
3 Sep, 2021
Immigration and National Identity
It's easy to say, "our immigration system is broken." Or to declare: "we are a nation of immigrants."...
12 Aug, 2021
The path to citizenship is the path to a more democratic America
If negotiations in Congress open a path to citizenship this year for the roughly 10.2 million undocumented immigrants in America, the U.S. economy will grow by as much as $1.7 trillion over ten years...
9 Jul, 2021
Taking a Wrong Turn on Immigration Detention
Last month, attorneys from the Department of Justice joined with counsel for the private prison corporation, the GEO Group, to present oral arguments supporting private immigration detention in California.
17 Jun, 2021
The Urgent Need to Educate America about Climate-Related Migration
The Biden administration has made some admirable moves and gestures toward addressing the immense challenges posed by climate-related migration.
6 May, 2021
Battling Xenophobia
A little more than a year ago, as the pandemic tightened its lethal grip on the nation, a 43-year-old agricultural worker named Nancy Silva received a letter from her employer.