1. 2018’s Record Number of Women Candidates Are Set to Blow Up Politics as Usual
From Rebecca Traister: What’s the fastest way to fix a broken system? Take it over, say the record number of female candidates running for office in 2018 for the first time.
2. Aid Workers Arrested by Border Patrol for Helping Migrants Cross Border
The charges come in the wake of a report by No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos that indicated at least 3,586 gallon jugs of water — left to aid migrants — were destroyed in the desert region near Arivaca, Ariz., by U.S. Border Patrol agents between 2012-2015.
3. Why It’s Time for Visual Journalism to Include a Solutions Focus
“One significant benefit is the portrayal of people and communities as active agents rather than passive victims. While access to resources matters greatly for what groups can achieve, a solutions perspective investigates how individuals respond to problems “as positive agents of change.”
Rey Pineda, a priest in Atlanta, is a DACA recipient. While his Southern parish is divided on immigration, they do not want to lose their priest.
5. How to Save a Town from Rising Waters
A first-of-its-kind program aims to resettle not just individuals, but to resettle the entire community together, as a whole, by constructing a brand-new town and filling it with the displaced occupants and culture of Isle de Jean Charles.
6. On Faith and an Incurable Cancer Diagnosis
Kate Bowler, Duke University professor of Christian history and author of Everything Happens for a Reason: and Other Lies I’ve Loved’ talks with TIME’s Elizabeth Dias about how the diagnosis changed her life and her faith.
7. ‘An Assault on the Body of the Church’
That’s what one Catholic priest called the Trump administration’s decision to end temporary protected status for some 200,000 Salvadorans — many of whom make up their tight-knit communities.
8. Photos from the Women’s March 2018
Have any favorite signs?
9. 8 Immigration Stories That Explain What’s at Stake for DACA
While Democrats and Republicans go back to the drawing board on DACA, here are eight stories to catch you up on the fate of Dreamers and DACA recipients.
“In times like these it is important to remember that border walls, nuclear missiles, and surveillance systems do not work, and would not even exist, without the cooperation of engineers. We must begin teaching young engineers that their field is defined by care and humble assistance, not blind obedience to authority.”
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