This is a pretty amazing story of the discovery of a mass grave of Irish laborers who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic. Basically, the Irish found whatever jobs they could when they arrived in the United States. A lot of this was in the...
immigration
Pramila Jayapal makes a compelling case for the inherent sexism of the debate on immigration with very real consequences for immigrant women. There are a lot of undocumented women working.
Luis Feliz and the immigration advocates trying to eliminate the word "illegal" from our discourse on immigration are absolutely right--the word demonizes human beings and is deeply hurtful and damaging..
The labor historian Cindy Hahamovitch on the already terrible agricultural guestworker program that agricultural interests want to deregulate even more in a new immigration bill. The guestworker program continued but in recent years abuses have gotten nastier. When growers demanded a bigger and less regulated...
Jeb Bush flip-flopping on immigration, now saying he doesn't support a path toward citizenship for undocumented Americans, is a sign that leading Republicans can be serious about winning the 2016.
Robert Stacy McCain, the man who defended the lynching of Emmett Till, has some really good advice for the Republican Party. Double down on white supremacy and reject those anti-capitalist.
This open letter to John McCain and Jeff Flake was both touching and disturbing in a number of ways: Thursday night I heard a banging knock at the door. I looked through the window and immigration agents asked me to open the door, conducting an...
President Obama is proposing quite an expansive set of gun control legislation. It's very impressive and it'll be interesting to see whether it can past. In a sense, this will.
Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a.
If John O'Sullivan and Jonah Goldberg have anything to say about it, Republicans are certainly about the turn the corner in attracting non-whites: “I see that the way we will get the Hispanics and the other groups, the Asians, as part of the Republican Coalition...
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of.
Barack Obama won Cuban-Americans in Florida, 49-47.