Human beings fleeing persecution are not a “flood” or “surge.” And it’s not “illegal” when they cross the border to seek asylum.

Human beings fleeing persecution are not a “flood” or “surge.” And it’s not “illegal” when they cross the border to seek asylum.
The world needs rare earth elements. But this mine threatens the ecosystem and well-being of the people of this Chilean community.
Young people were the country’s biggest export last year.
A look back at the history-making mobilization against the Iraq War that turned ordinary people into a “second superpower” — one we badly need today.
The five detainees include leaders of the campaign that won the world’s first metals mining ban in 2017 — a ban the cash-strapped government may be moving to overturn.
Peru’s deepening crisis is a cautionary tale about democracies that fail to deliver for ordinary people.
Military intervention is not what Haiti needs. But other countries can help Haitians help themselves.
Reducing a humanitarian crisis to an issue of “border security” puts real solutions out of reach.
People from poor countries that can no longer rely on energy assistance from Venezuela are arriving at the border in record numbers.
House Republicans, Euroskeptics, Vladimir Putin, and Jair Bolsonaro are the agents of a new kind of political disorder that parallels the chaos of failing states, economic catastrophe, and climate disasters.