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Kamala Harris’s new immigration stance is consistent with the Biden Administration’s broader strategy to focus on “root causes” in Central America through government aid,...

The Vice President is now toeing the administration’s line on keeping out people fleeing danger in their home countries.

On Citations Needed, they were pointing out that prolonging the war in Vietnam became a political risk, so politicians then had real incentive to end it. Vietnam was also a war in which the public knew a lot of what was going on, which affected the extent to which prolonging it was bad politics. Even with Iraq, once the “Collateral Murder” video came out it became a political risk for the Iraqi government to have the continued presence of U.S. troops in their country. There’s no such risk...

7 Genuinely Great Podcasts on Climate Change and the Natural World Informative podcasts are a great way to get up to speed on complex topics. Why Global Citizens Should Care Climate change threatens to deepen existing inequalities worldwide. The United Nations calls on companies and governments to immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent catastrophic consequences. You can join us in taking action on this issue here.  Climate change is both simple and immensely complicated.  It�...

A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Defund the Police" during events to mark Juneteenth — which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States — amid nationwide protests against racial inequality, in New York City on June 19, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid Biden has told activists to hold off on calls to "Defund the Police" until after the Geor...

Stop Comparing the Capitol Riot to Banana Republics. It’s Lazy—and Wrong. Commentators have relied on fallacious allusions to the developing world to explain a problem unique to the United States. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images The Trump-incited insurrection at the Capitol on Wednesday was a fitting coda to a presidency that came into this world likening Mexicans to “criminals and rapists” and that has, along the way, accepted and enabled white supremacists to a degree unprecedented in re...