Immigrants
According to the fruits of their labor
August 18, 2010A photo-essay about blueberry workers in eastern Maine by photojournalist David Bacon resurrected my own memories of picking blueberries in Maine as a young boy.
Read more
Is this about immigration?
August 17, 2010What's really behind the sudden and righteous-sounding call from the senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, to change the 14th Amendment to the Constitution?
Read more
How establishment media fans anti-immigrant flames
August 10, 2010The anti-immigrant stridency of people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck sometimes leads us to ignore the somewhat more subtle bigotry from more "respectable" media, like the Washington Post.
Read more
Farmworkers fight for rights in the tobacco fields
August 4, 2010GREENSBORO, N.C. - Nine migrant farmworkers have died in fields across the state from heat stroke, and others suffer from nicotine poisoning and exposure to deadly chemicals.
Read more
GOP goes after kids and Constitution
August 4, 2010A key amendment to the U.S. Constitution is in the cross hairs of a frightening Republican campaign.
Read more