Trump’s Monstrous Call
In Donald Trump’s campaign, a new kind of unapologetic brutality is coming to the home front.
Fall 2025
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Booked: A Suitcase Full of Passports
An interview with journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian about her new book, The Cosmopolites, and the buying and selling of citizenship.
The Polish Right in Triumph
The tide of anti-refugee hysteria sweeping Europe brought Poland’s right-wing, autocratic-leaning PiS (Law and Justice) party a stunning victory in last weekend’s elections, pushing the country’s electoral left even further to the margins.
A Nation of Migrants
Thinking of the United States as a nation of immigrants may promote inclusivity in a time of rising xenophobia, but it also serves to exclude and obscure what the U.S. really is: a nation of migrants.
The Outside-Inside Game
A dialogue between two veteran immigrant rights advocates who have watched the movement grow, diversify, and sometimes contradict itself over the past three decades.
Fit for Citizenship? A Photo Essay
Even as America defined itself as a “nation of immigrants,” it sought a more perfect union by engineering the masses at its gateway.
American Orientalism
From the late nineteenth century to our post-9/11 era, Americans have imagined South Asians simultaneously as exotic and barbaric, magical and menacing—to the detriment of those immigrants who are already most vulnerable.
From the Margins: Introducing Our Spring Issue
Featuring essays by Vivek Bald, Michelle Chen, Anjali Kamat, Mae Ngai, and more, our Spring issue examines the power of borders—real and imagined—and what they look like from the perspective of those they seek to exclude.
Updating Debs’s Dream
Nearly every morning, hundreds of immigrants from Latin America come to my affluent town in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. to work. They build or clean million-dollar houses, cook and wash dishes at fast-food and fancy restaurants, care for the …
New Haven Rising
As “eds and meds” reshape working-class New Haven, labor and community groups are joining forces to transform the service economy and build a more democratic city.
Executive Justice?
Both law and history are on Obama’s side when it comes to executive action on immigration.
How Immigrant Activists Changed L.A.
Since the 1990s, immigrant and labor activists in Los Angeles have worked together to build a powerful progressive movement.
Introduction: The Promises and Limits of Progressive Cities
To dwell solely on the grim events in Washington is to neglect the more complicated and, potentially, more hopeful reality taking shape in American cities today.
Introducing our Winter issue.
Passports for Sale
Until recently, becoming a citizen of a country has largely been regarded as priceless—a rare intangible privilege that can’t be bought or sold. This perception is starting to fade.
Will the Rise of the Far Right Mean More Human Trafficking in Europe?
By depriving immigrants of rights, governments help foster the demand for illegal trade in human lives.
