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Muscle-Flexing at Muslims

Tim Stanley ▪ April 18, 2011

Tim Stanley: Muscular Liberalism

A Nation of (Deported) Immigrants

Adam Goodman ▪ Spring 2011

Sometime in 2012, Valente Valenzuela and his younger brother Manuel will find out whether they will be deported from the United States. Valente, sixty-two, and Manuel, fifty-eight, were born in Mexico, but moved to the United States in 1955, and …

Immigrant Youth Movement Takes a Civil Rights Lesson

Daniel Altschuler ▪ March 21, 2011

Daniel Altschuler: Immigrant Youth Movement Takes a Civil Rights Lesson

Ghosts of a Tortured Past: Europe’s Right Turn

Richard Wolin ▪ Winter 2011

In the annals of European politics, the elections of spring 2010 will undoubtedly be viewed as a watershed. Under the twin pressures of the global financial slowdown and the Greek economic crisis, far-right parties made significant and worrisome electoral gains …

Xenophobia: This, Too, Will Pass

Michael Kazin ▪ Fall 2010

We are currently enduring one of America’s periodic freak-outs about immigration. State legislators rush to enact laws allowing police to grill anyone they suspect of lacking the right documents, leading Republicans advocate repealing the “birthright” section of the Fourteenth Amendment, …

Corn and Country: Nebraska, Mexico, and the Global Economy

Julie Greene ▪ Fall 2010

On June 21, residents of Fremont, a small meatpacking town just outside Omaha, Nebraska, voted by 57 percent to deny work and shelter to undocumented immigrants. Why Fremont, Nebraska, and why now? Some observers, not knowing the Fremont measure was …

Not Your Parents’ Minnesota: Immigration Politics in a Supposed Liberal Bastion

Peter Rachleff and Doug Rossinow ▪ Fall 2010

Minnesota was long known as a progressive stronghold, from its support for Ignatius Donnelly and the Populists of the 1890s and A.C. Townley and his Nonpartisan League in the First World War era to its election of Farmer-Labor governors, senators, …