Mar 21 5 overlooked politics stories that are worth your time By Saher Khan The 24-hour news cycle is filled with political coverage, but not everything gets the attention it deserves. Here are five politics stories you may have missed in the past week. Continue reading
Mar 15 NYT Book Review of ‘Exit West’: A refugee crisis in a world of open doors By Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of "The Refugees," reviews the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club selection of the month, Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West."… Continue reading
Mar 14 Watch 8:24 To douse growing anti-Semitism, Germans call for Holocaust education for recent migrants By Malcolm Brabant With more than a million newcomers to Germany since 2015, there's been a resulting rise in anti-Semitism. Now there are growing calls to mandate that refugees and Muslim migrants visit concentration camps to help improve their understanding of the country's… Continue watching
Mar 13 Critics, supporters await Trump during tour of border wall prototypes in California By Julie Watson, Associated Press Rallies for and against Donald Trump's "big beautiful border wall" with Mexico are expected to mark his first visit to California as president amid growing tensions between his administration and the state over immigration enforcement. Continue reading
Mar 09 ACLU files lawsuit claiming the U.S. broadly separates immigrant families seeking asylum By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not announced a formal policy to hold adult asylum seekers separately from their children. But administration officials have said they are considering separating parents and children to deter others from trying to enter… Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 3:20 This poet wants brown girls to know they’re worthy of being the hero and the author By PBS News Hour For girls who didn't grow up seeing themselves as the main characters of books, award-winning poet Elizabeth Acevedo wants them to know that their stories are just as important as any other. Acevedo shares her Brief but Spectacular take on… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch 3:21 Suing California, Sessions vows to ‘use every power’ to stop state laws on immigration enforcement By PBS News Hour Attorney General Jeff Sessions accused the state of California on Wednesday of "using every power it has and some it doesn't to frustrate federal law enforcement" on the issue of immigration. The Justice Department is suing the state for three… Continue watching
Mar 07 Watch 8:59 Gov. Jerry Brown: Sessions ‘sowing discord’ instead of proposing immigration reform By PBS News Hour California Gov. Jerry Brown says the Trump administration's lawsuit against the state over immigration is a political stunt, and called Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ claim that California is protecting criminals a lie. Brown and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra join… Continue watching
Mar 05 Watch 2:12 DACA sits in limbo as symbolic deadline passes By PBS News Hour Last fall, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the DACA program would end by March 5 unless Congress acted. But that day has come and Congress has not acted, despite efforts to strike a deal that was ultimately rejected by President… Continue watching
Mar 05 Trump’s DACA deadline just passed. What’s next? By Daniel Bush Here’s where things stand with DACA, and the hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” whose protected status remains in limbo while the issue plays out in Congress and the courts. Continue reading