The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy itself warrant the same treatment?
Posts Tagged: Refugees
Hungary’s authoritarianism, Portugal’s generosity, Italy’s call for solidarity, Germany’s tightfistedness: European responses to the crisis are all over the map.
Closed borders and ICE raids mean crowded detention centers and camps, which is always inhumane. In a pandemic, it’s a global public health threat.
The banality of President Trump’s evil has infected huge swaths of the electorate as well as the federal government. Can it be treated?
Austere “shock therapy” after the Cold War only shocked the East into reaction. In the West, the corporate political center ultimately did the same.
War and militarism are destroying the planet. But if we de-fund the Pentagon, we can save it.
Democrats need to take Trump’s crimes against people and the planet as seriously as those against Joe Biden.
Trump’s asylum ban and kangaroo tent courts threaten to destroy a pillar of international humanitarian law. What can we do?
Lawmakers say frontline communities should be at the heart of the Green New Deal. They must include current and future undocumented immigrants.
It’s about asking whether we need an immigration system that terrorizes the least dangerous people in this country.