Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With It.
“Donald Trump took a broken system and turned it into a machine of unchecked cruelty.”
The Crazy Story of the Professor Who Came to Stay—and Wouldn’t Leave
It’s not easy to evict someone in California. Usually that’s a good thing. (And also, don’t mess with Judith Butler.)
The Fierce Life and Too-Soon Death of My Unlikely Cuban Friends
As the diplomatic freeze comes to an end, Ian Gordon reflects on his unlikely friendship with two Cuban men.
70,000 Kids Will Show Up Alone at Our Border This Year. What Happens to Them?
Officials have been stunned by a “surge” of unaccompanied children crossing into the United States.
Although some have traveled from as far away as Sri Lanka and Tanzania, the bulk are minors from Mexico and from Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, which together account for 74 percent of the surge. Long plagued by instability and unrest, these countries have grown especially dangerous in recent years: Honduras imploded following a military coup in 2009 and now has the world’s highest murder rate. El Salvador has the second-highest, despite the 2012 gang truce between Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18. Guatemala, new territory for the Zetas cartel, has the fifth-highest murder rate; meanwhile, the cost of tortillas has doubled as corn prices have skyrocketed due to increased American ethanol production (Guatemala imports half of its corn) and the conversion of farmland to sugarcane and oil palm for biofuel.
