Nov 28, 2021 | History, Immigration, Salon.com
Lyndon B. Johnson with the 6th and 7th grade students in the class he taught in 1928 and 1929. Cotulla, Texas. CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
Last month I found myself in a friend’s kitchen, perched on a wooden stool while pointing a cracked iPhone screen at my laptop’s voice recorder. I was interviewing a pair of climate activists in their 20s, who were hunger striking to protest ongoing political inaction in the face of climate change....
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Apr 18, 2021 | History, Immigration, Salon.com
Less than a year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit America, leading to a surge in hate incidents against people of Asian descent, I spoke with “Star Trek” actor George Takei about a graphic memoir he had written. The erstwhile Ensign Sulu described living in a Japanese-American internment camp as a small child. His book was a harrowing depiction of a shameful chapter in American history: During World War II, roughly 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage (a majority of them U.S....
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Jul 8, 2020 | Immigration, Salon.com
Palantir | Peter Thiel | Border Patrol agent arresting a man Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons
One of Silicon Valley’s most despised companies is secretly going public.
Palantir Technologies, a Silicon Valley data-mining company appropriately named after the seeing stones used by Sauron for surveillance in “The Lord of the Rings,” has secretly filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public....
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Jan 17, 2020 | Immigration, Salon.com
Karlie Kloss and Ivanka Trump Christoph Dernbach/Ian Tuttle/Getty Images
Karlie Kloss, the sister-in-law of President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, revealed on the show “Watch What Happens Live” that she will not vote for the Republican president in 2020.
“I’m sure I’m not the only person in this country who does not necessarily agree with their family on politics,” the “Project Runway” host told host Andy Cohen in a segment which aired Thursday night....
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Jan 17, 2020 | Immigration, Salon.com
Tom Homan, former ICE Director Fox News
Tom Homan, a former Trump administration official who served as acting ICE director for more than a year, claimed Wednesday to “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade that the president’s immigration policies have led to less rapes across the country.
“Look, I think you’re going to get 400 miles of wall by the end of the year....
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Aug 17, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Immigration, Race and Racism
Published: Salon (August 17, 2016) To understand precisely how Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has changed America, one need only look at a new pair of surveys. In April the Southern Poverty Law Center discovered that the Trump campaign has triggered an...
Jul 31, 2016 | Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Immigration, Race and Racism
Published: Salon (July 31, 2016), The Good Men Project (July 26, 2016) “What would it take for you to vote for a third-party candidate?” This question was posed to me by a good friend who, after supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign, became so...
Jul 16, 2016 | Abortion, Civil Liberties, Conservativism, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Gay Rights and Other LGBTQIA Issues, Immigration, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans
Published: The Good Men Project (July 16, 2016) As The New York Times recently reported, there are an awful lot of social issues in which Donald Trump doesn’t now or didn’t in the past line up with his new vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. These...
Jul 4, 2016 | Civil Liberties, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), History, Immigration, Military-Industrial Complex/Security State
Published: Salon (July 4, 2016) As America celebrates its 240th anniversary, the Donald Trump campaign confronts us with the vivid possibility that our democracy could look vastly different if he’s elected. No, I’m not implying that Trump is another Adolf Hitler. You...
Jul 3, 2016 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Immigration
Published: Salon (July 3, 2016) If Bernie Sanders supporters can learn anything from Brexit, it is that the English-speaking world is in the mood for a certain type of right-wing populism. On one side of the pond, the anti-immigrant and anti-free trade sentiment that...