Obama

January 17, 2019

Trump’s wall is just the latest incarnation of an old fixation.

April 2, 2018
Elizabeth Dore

As the country prepares for a historic presidential succession, ending the Castros’ nearly sixty-year grip on the highest office, inequality is growing and ordinary Cubans are increasingly disaffected. A report from Havana.

June 13, 2017
Alyshia Gálvez

Three cofounders of the Lehman College DREAM Team in New York City on the past, present, and future of undocumented youth organizing.

April 25, 2017
Aviva Chomsky

How Trump's policies on deportations build off - and diverge from - his predecessors.

March 9, 2017

How U.S. border policies constitute a new kind of state-led “disappearance.”

January 30, 2017

Without a reckoning of how past policies have shaped current migratory patterns, restriction efforts – Democratic and Republican – miss the point.

October 26, 2016

The number of migrants in detention has risen exponentially in the past two decades, under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

August 17, 2016
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.

As relations with Cuba move toward normalization, the transformation of “people-to-people” travel into an element of U.S.-Cuba policy revives old racialized representations of the island and its people.

March 29, 2016
Michael J. Bustamante

Obama sought to “bury the last remnants of the Cold War” in Havana last week, but the path to reconciliation will be long and challenging. 

March 28, 2016
Ada Ferrer

Obama’s recent visit to Cuba - particularly Tuesday's presidential address in Havana - has fueled a tentative hope for a new kind of U.S.-Cuba relations.

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