Human Rights

As African Americans comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population, but own a mere 0.4 percent of TV stations, minority representation in media ownership is lacking.

Today, ‘scum villages’ for ‘antisocial tenants’ in Amsterdam. Perhaps tomorrow it will be containment camps for surplus labor in all capitalist economies.

Operation Streamline turns trespassing across an international border into a criminal offense for the first time in US history.

The US has portrayed Guangcheng as a hero at the same time it hunts down Julian Assange for similar acts.

Gaza remains under Israeli siege, making life more difficult.

No two deportations are alike, but what every deportation shares is hardship.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a bold progressive and, from the 1930s until her death, one of the most well-known and admired people in the United States and around the world.

My recreating characters based on my late uncle, whose drug problem addled our whole family, doesn't make me despicable; it makes me an American writer.

The question of whether a sacrifice has been worth the effort often remains an open question for a very long time.

The public increasingly rejects anti-immigrant policies and harsh federal drug laws, but border security is still obsessed with drug enforcement and stemming immigration.