Tag: US immigration
How climate change is driving emigration from Central America
Miranda Cady Hallett, University of Dayton
Clouds of dust rose behind the wheels of the pickup truck as we hurtled over the back road in...
The misguided attacks on ‘This Land Is Your Land’
Will Kaufman, University of Central Lancashire
In recent years, Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” has become a rallying cry for immigrants. And in...
How much power can one image actually have?
Nicole Smith Dahmen, University of Oregon and Paul Slovic, University of Oregon
When the Associated Press published Julia Le Duc’s photograph of a drowned Salvadoran...
Nixon and Reagan tried closing the border to pressure Mexico –...
Aileen Teague, Brown University
Just a week ago, President Donald Trump appeared poised to take the drastic step of closing the U.S.-Mexico border to both...
Why are some Americans changing their names?
Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University
In 2008, Newsweek published an article on then-presidential candidate Barack Obama titled “From Barry to Barack.”
The story explained how Obama’s...
Republican ads feature MS-13, hoping fear will motivate voters
Anthony W. Fontes, American University School of International Service
Campaign advertisements appearing for this year’s midterm elections include a stream of Republican campaign ads linking...
Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis as midterms approach
Marco Aponte-Moreno, St Mary's College of California
President Donald Trump has spoken forcefully about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, calling it a “human tragedy”...
Mexico elects a leftist president who welcomes migrants
Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong
Mexico’s next president will be Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor and outspoken critic of the...
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The US economy likely just entered its longest ever expansion –...
Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. economy likely surpassed an important milestone last month: Americans are now experiencing the longest economic expansion in the...
