Human Rights

The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

December 3, 2020 issue

Nigeria’s #EndSARS Movement

The government’s denials about the Lekki Massacre reflect a leadership unaccustomed to being held accountable. But that is changing.

November 1, 2020

ICE’s Bail Bonds and the Migrant Detention Industry

Zukowska grew up undocumented in the US, an experience that politicized her. Today, her writing and organizing centers on immigrant rights.

October 31, 2020

Where Health Care Is a Human Right

How does the single-payer system work in Canada, and does it need reform?

November 19, 2020 issue

The Revival of Church Sanctuary

How a long-abandoned practice became a way for undocumented immigrants to seek protection.

November 19, 2020 issue

ICE’s Bail Bond Scheme

The detention-industrial complex has ever more inventive ways of making money from poverty and misery.

October 27, 2020

Women Not at Home

Ronit Matalon’s Israeli novels follow immigrant families much like her own.

November 5, 2020 issue

Dmitriev: Historian of Stalin’s Gulag

“I wanted to find out about the fate of those people,” he told me, about his vocation as a researcher in the NKVD killing fields of Karelia.

October 7, 2020

Deportation Nation

The deportation system held sway over immigrant communities long before Trump became president, but under his direction it has become even more far-reaching, arbitrary, and cruel.

October 8, 2020 issue

The Wages of Whiteness

Whiteness is a concept that can be made to serve many interests and positions, not all of them compatible.

September 24, 2020 issue