Colombian-born DREAMer Catalina Cruz has lived in New York City since she was nine. She is an attorney, with a history of working on tenants’ protection, immigration law, and workers’ rights.
Aretha Franklin, who died today at the age of 76 in her home in Detroit, was known for her unbelievable musical talent and majestic career, but the Queen of Soul was also a longtime warrior in the fight for social justice.
Asylum-seeking families and children who turn up in Mexico and at the US southern border from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador are escaping terrible violence and poverty.
Omarosa Manigault Newman’s Unhinged, the latest in a growing number of insider exposés about the Trump White House, appears to contain 15 years of evidence that Donald Trump was an exploitative, racist, and misogynist boss—all characteristics that Manigault Newman says she deliberately overlooked and even helped to normalize.
Natural-birth advocates consider labor induction one of the main elements of the “cascade of interventions” modern medicine uses to assist—or alter, depending on one’s view of it—the process of childbirth.
Golden thermal blankets have become the quintessential symbol of migrants in Italy, where they are handed out to those rescued trying to reach Europe by sea.
In 16th century Europe, a Protestant priest seeks to disrupt the social order by joining a variety of religious revolts and wars happening in Europe. His real name is unknown, but his pseudonyms include Gustav Metzger, Lucas Niemanson, Lienhard Jost, Gerrit Boeckbinder, Lot, Hans Grüeb, Ludwig Schaliedecker, Titian and Ismael. His adversary is the villain Q, a spy working on behalf of the Catholic Church to maintain the status quo.
The gender wage gap in America, it is often quoted, is 20%—meaning that for every dollar a man makes, a woman makes $0.80. That is true, but only if you’re taking a broad look at it.
There is a misperception that a cesarean section be a quick, manageable, somewhat pain-free way of giving birth. They are often considered by patients, hospitals, and doctors (especially in the US) to be a low-risk, practical alternative to vaginal birth, since c-sections be planned and managed with more certainty. “No one gets sued for doing a c-section,” is a common refrain in the world of obstetrics; obstetricians are some of the medical specialists most likely to be sued, and have to pay for costly malpractice insurance.
In its latest move to bring the health insurance market closer to the pre-Affordable Care Act era, the Trump administration has extended the duration of so-called short-term health insurance plans.
“I am a daughter of an immigrant,” Ivanka Trump told Axios in a breakfast interview this morning (Aug. 2), discussing her father’s immigration policies. “My mother grew up in communist Czech Republic.”
New parents face “the social insecurity of our time,” wrote Marco Rubio this morning in USA Today, with Missouri representative Anna Wagner. The pair were presenting a new parental leave bill, with a unusual “conservative” financing solution behind it.
Jeff Sessions is worried. In a July 30 address at the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Religious Liberty Summit, the US attorney general claimed that “a dangerous movement, undetected by many, is now challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom.” US religious groups were being labeled as “hate groups,” he said, simply for following their beliefs.
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Like many other Republican state governments in the US, Indiana’s has been passing laws with the aim of limiting abortion by adding requirements for women seeking the procedure.
So Michael Cohen has turned on his highest-profile client, Donald Trump.
There is little doubt that Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles who died today at 66 after complications from shoulder surgery, will be remembered as a true genius of the automotive industry.
Social welfare is a sneaky thing. Lower your guard a few minutes, listen to a passionate breakdown of the social benefits every citizen should have, and before you know it, you think maybe you do deserve them.
Humans are mammals. Therefore, they can breastfeed their offspring, and they should. There is no shortage of evidence of the tremendous health benefits that come with breastfeeding—for both the baby and the mother. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends exclusively breastfeeding babies until they are six months old, and continuing partial breastfeeding for the first year.
The Trump administration is behind deadline. A court has ordered that all immigrant children who were separated from their parents be reunited within the month: Kids who are younger than five years old are supposed to be reunited by July 10. The remainder of the estimated 3000 kids are supposed to be reunited by July 26.
It’s the final countdown: The trade war with China is on—or it will be, in a matter of hours. At 00:01 am EST on July 6, Donald Trump’s list of tariffs on Chinese imports will take effect.
Immigration has become a defining topic of elections and politics globally, from the US to the UK. Germany was the latest to capitulate to xenophobic tendencies, with chancellor Angela Merkel dialing back her policy of welcoming refugees and immigrants to appease immigration hawks within her own government.
Immigration may be at the center of the American political debate, but a new Harvard University study shows Americans are missing a crucial piece of information.
So far this year there's only been one pregnancy-related death in Borgne, Haiti.
