Tag: Immigration
How Indian American spelling bee dominance may fuel educational inequities
Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
Harini Logan, a cheerful 14-year-old from San Antonio, Texas, made history on June 2, 2022....
More migrants are dying along the US-Mexico border, but it’s hard...
Courtney Riggle-van Schagen, George Washington University and Elizabeth Vaquera, George Washington University
At least 650 migrants died crossing the...
More education for Mexican Americans may mean less diabetes
Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Penn State
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This is what happens to child migrants found alone at the...
Randi Mandelbaum, Rutgers University
A record number of child migrants have arrived alone at the United States’ southern border...
The situation at the US-Mexico border is a crisis – but...
Randi Mandelbaum, Rutgers University
The media create the impression that there is an unprecedented crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border,...
Migrant caravans restart as pandemic deepens the humanitarian crisis at the...
Katrina Burgess, Tufts University
Members of a U.S.-bound migrant caravan from Honduras have been detained in Guatemala and deported before they could reach Mexico. Though...
Why Indian American spelling bee success is more than just an...
Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
Over the past 20 years, Indian Americans have come to dominate the Scripps National Spelling Bee even though they comprise only...
How Minneapolis made Prince
Rashad Shabazz, Arizona State University
It’s been almost four years since Prince’s death, but fascination about the artist, the man and his mythology endures.
On Jan....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
