On 2016, David Axelrod, the chief strategist of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, interviewed Jon Stewart at the University of Chicago, my college campus, for his CNN podcast The Axe Files. I was in an audience of students eager to see the former host of The Daily Show return to the public eye, and I’d wanted to ask him a question during the Q&A portion. I didn’t get to, but I am confident that even if I had, my question would not have been as important as Dan Ackerman’s.
The Ashland County Sheriff's Office stated that the deputy was responding to a call reporting an individual armed with a knife in Odanah. The responding deputy fired shots, striking and killing the teen who was an eighth grader at Ashland Middle School.
3. Former Felons in Virginia Show Just How Meaningful It Is to Vote
“In 2016, there were 508,680 potential voters in Virginia disenfranchised because of felonies, including more than one in every five African Americans, according to The Sentencing Project.”
Conservative Christian supporters of Roy Moore are defending the U.S. Senate candidate against charges of sexually assaulting a teenager decades ago — and one of them used the biblical story of Mary and Joseph to rationalize sex between an adult and a minor.
The "we are still in" coalition opened a 2,500-square meter (27,000-square foot) tent pavilion outside a venue in Bonn, Germany, where delegates from almost 200 nations are working on details of the pact aimed at ending the fossil fuel era by 2100.
By contrast, the U.S. government delegation office at the talks covers only 100 square meters.
In this short audio story, Jose describes the day he revealed his undocumented status to his best friend, and the fears and surprises it brought up.
The second film in Immigrant Nation, an interactive project that uses personal narratives to explore our connections to migration, past and present. Here, Republican Mayor Paul Bridges of Uvalda, Ga., stands up for his towns's mainly Latino community.
Adapted from the feature documentary that tells the story of home health aides and their aging clients as they navigate the U.S. eldercare system. Here we meet Vilma — from Costa Rica — and Dee.
With intimate access and striking imagery, Sin País explores the complexities of the Mejia’s new reality of a separated family–parents without their children, and children without their parents.
The first film in Immigrant Nation, an interactive project that uses personal narrative to explore our connections to migration, past and present. Here Joesey Cares for Haru in her final days.