Tag: Xenophobia
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...
It’s time for a new approach to travel
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University
When I overcame a flying phobia, I resolved to make up for lost time by visiting as much of the...
Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrants 90 years ago: Why the global...
Moshik Temkin, Harvard University
Ninety years ago, on Aug. 23, 1927, two Italian immigrants were executed.
The deaths of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the...
Charlottesville attack shows homegrown terror on the right is on the...
Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a man named James Alex Fields Jr. used his Dodge Challenger as...
Macron and LePen are battling for France’s heart and soul in...
Richard Fogarty, University at Albany, State University of New York
On April 24, the day after her second-place finish in the first round...
The rise of anti-immigrant attitudes, violence and nationalism in Costa Rica
Caitlin Fouratt, California State University, Long Beach
Costa Rica is often thought of as the “Switzerland of the Americas.”
With a stable...
Combatting stereotypes: How to talk to your children
Marjorie Rhodes, New York University
How can modern parents raise the next generation to be free from corrosive gender and racial stereotypes? By the time...
Will Trump victory make Angela Merkel leader of the free world?
Johanna Schuster-Craig, Michigan State University
After the election of Donald Trump, commentators have argued that German Chancellor Angela Merkel may become the leader of the...
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...
