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The Reality of Central American Migration with Noelle Brigden

Posted November 21, 2017

Trump's demagogic rhetoric on MS-13 is designed to obscure the truth about the reality and origins of mass Central American migration: the roots of...

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Posted November 17, 2017

Last week was a bad week for Republicans and a good week for Democrats—and for Democratic Socialists. It’s now pretty clear that Republicans will...

A History of Human Caging with Kelly Lytle Hernández

Posted November 14, 2017

Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández tells the story of human caging in Los Angeles, from the Spanish Conquest to the mid-twentieth century, in her new...

Don't Criminalize Sex Work with Melissa Gira Grant

Posted November 10, 2017

Journalist @melissagira eviscerates a newspaper investigation that conflates sex work with trafficking. She examines how reporters unwittingly fall...