16 Nov, 2022
Re-envisioning Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s worth revisiting some of the holiday’s most cherished expressions. In such a revisiting...
16 Nov, 2022
6 Nov, 2022
Sowing Seeds of Economic Democracy
For good reasons, the spotlights of media have been shining brightly on the fate of our electoral democracy; undoubtedly this intense focus will continue long after the midterm elections.
15 Oct, 2022
Democracy is an act of moral imagination
Shortly before he died, Congressmember and human rights activist John Lewis wrote a farewell to his fellow citizens, declaring: “Democracy is not a state.
23 Sep, 2022
Casting a discerning eye on political theater
The term “political theater” has taken on some pointedly negative connotations in recent days. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flew two planeloads of migrants from San Antonio, Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on September 14, critics condemned the action as “political theater.”
2 Aug, 2022
The immoral, irrational case against DACA
A gross injustice against young immigrants is slowly working its way through the courts. It centers upon a federal judge’s ruling last year that the DACA Program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) was “unlawful,” a ruling that puts in doubt a program that has given tens of thousands of young people brought here as children a temporary, renewable reprieve from deportation...
19 Jul, 2022
Nonviolence is the best antidote to political violence
Aquilino Gonell felt rage. The U.S. Army veteran and 16-year member of the Capitol Police force was listening to Cassidy Hutchinson tell the House Select Commit¬tee to Invest¬ig¬ate the Janu¬ary 6 Attack how Donald Trump had spurred on his followers even though he knew many were armed.
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?”
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...