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Once, abolitionists had to imagine a world without slavery. Can we similarly envision a world where migrants are offered justice?

How a party spent decades making itself white.

The policy of "prevention through deterrence" has been deadly.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.

The U.S. did not always find it necessary to lock up people seeking asylum.

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.

Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.

For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the American economy.

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.

In Nogales, Arizona, the United States and Mexico agreed to build walls separating their countries.

It wasn't always this way.

Exaggerating the danger of the group only creates new problems.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

Trump's insistence on national solidarity, rejection of globalism, and demand for total patriotism channel Teddy Roosevelt.