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Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, New Jersey, on Sept. 27, 2021.

6 months after evacuation, thousands of Afghan families are waiting to reunite

February 21, 2022Refugees

Ahmad Naem Wakili, who worked as a judge in Afghanistan, landed in Arizona after getting evacuated from the country last August. But a bureaucratic quagmire is still keeping his wife and daughter abroad. Thousands of others face a similar legal limbo.

Adela Diaz says the coronavirus pandemic has brought new urgency to her college major in public health.

A young Latina voter in Arizona reflects on the contentious 2020 election

January 13, 2021

Una photo con el collage de 8 retratos de jovenes sobre un fondo negro.

Estos son los jóvenes votantes latinos de ‘Cada 30 Segundos’

June 18, 2020Every 30 Seconds

An empty water bottle lays on the dirt behind a string of barbed wire

Crimes of compassion: US follows Europe’s lead in prosecuting those who help migrants

June 6, 2019Immigration

A young child is shown holding a doll by the arm.

Arizona monastery, motel turned into migrant shelters

March 7, 2019Global Politics

Members of the former Tucson Pantsuit Nation group has created a new organization called Project Nexis.

How a convert balances her white privilege and Muslim identity in the Trump era

August 30, 2017Justice

A former Pantsuit Nation group goes rogue, searching for a way to balance white feminism and inclusion.

Reporter Rupa Shenoy with Luis Valdez, a former Mexican American Studies studies student who says the program put him on a path that led his recent completion of a phD in public health.

After a 10-year saga, Tucson teachers are validated when a judge calls state law racist

August 25, 2017Education

It took 10 years, but Tucson teachers feel validated by a judge’s finding that an Arizona state law is racist toward Mexican American students.

Man standing in front of ranch sign and American flag

This rancher in Arizona doesn’t necessarily want a wall — but he does want more done along the border

October 3, 2016Justice

Ed Ashurst says the smuggling of drugs and people across the border needs to be seen as a real, national problem. Something, he says, the government isn’t doing.

In Arizona’s wake, gun control for the mentally ill?

July 4, 2014Conflict & Justice

Much has been made of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner’s troubled state of mind by police and former classmates. But if Loughner’s mental issues were a factor in Saturday’s attacks, does it follow that we should screen people for mental illness before allowing them to purchase guns? Is this even possible? And more importantly, do […]

This week’s agenda: China, health care, economy

June 30, 2014Global Politics

China’s President Hu Jintao is heading to the United States this week and will meet with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday. Marcus Mabry, associate national editor for The New York Times, and Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC, discuss what they expect to come out of this meeting between […]