When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinzón back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team’s fate. It was the third game of the season for Soccer Without Borders Academy, which hadn’t won a single match it played […]
Not long after the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, DC, Elora Mukherjee found herself contacting her clients with bad news. Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, needed to tell several asylum seekers that their applications had been put on hold—indefinitely. “These policies don’t just […]
This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Stevenson stood in a circle of friends and colleagues in an Orlando, Florida, hotel lobby. Everyone but him wore a lapel pin that read “I ♥ Fossil Fuels.” “You want one?” asked a conference attendee, offering me the […]
The country reportedly asked Washington to station spy planes in the country to help it fight jihadists who have recently gained territory across West Africa.
By 5:30 p.m. on December 1, the December sun had already set when Jake Ephros stopped by his campaign office in Jersey City’s Ward D to pick up a new voter contact list. With about twelve hours to go before polls opened in the city council runoff, Ephros was knocking on as many doors as […]
A group of Republicans tell the president to pound sand, Marjorie Taylor Greene plots a coup against Mike Johnson, and Kilmar Abrego Garcia walks free.