North America

'Spirit Run': A new memoir details one man's journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage

October 19, 2020

In his memoir, "Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land," Noe Álvarez shares how the communal run helped him reclaim a relationship with the land and reconnect with his parents' migration and life of labor in the agricultural fields of the northwest.

Immigration

Canada is granting residency to some asylum-seekers working in pandemic health care

The World

August 25, 2020

Earlier this month, Canada’s immigration minister Marco Mendicino announced that the country will grant permanent residency to some asylum-seekers who have been working in institutions hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic: hospitals and long-term care homes.

Can this radical approach to dairies save US farms?

Civil Eats

March 12, 2019

Canada's practice of limiting milk production ensures a stable market for its dairy farmers. It’s also being touted as a potential solution to the US dairy crisis.

Justice

Thousands of immigrants with ‘protected status’ face possible deportation

The Center for Public Integrity

November 08, 2017

Trump administration deciding fate of those allowed in years ago due to war, natural disasters.

Justice

Trump says he will make 'fast decision' on Comey replacement

Agence France-Presse

May 13, 2017

President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey — a move that was still reverberating around Washington.

Global Politics

Trump firing Comey: ‘It helps every authoritarian in the world’

The World

May 10, 2017

Journalists and academics across the globe see alarming parallels between the US and deeply troubled countries whose leaders go after those who investigate them.

Conflict

US House passes Obamacare repeal in win for Trump

Agence France-Presse

May 04, 2017

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Republican repeal of Obamacare.

Global Politics

How to get the conservative climate message to Trump? Put it on TV.

The World

May 01, 2017

Conservative climate groups target Trump with TV ad.

Food

What happens when you eat seafood at every meal for a year?

FRONTLINE

April 25, 2017

And is there a sustainable way to eat this much fish?

Justice

Asked — again — about anti-Semitism, Trump condemns it as ‘horrible’

The World

February 21, 2017

President Donald Trump condemned the latest rash of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the US by calling them a “very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”

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