By Mark Richardson Polls show health care will be one of the biggest issues in the 2020 elections, and AARP is st... Read more
On August 12, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new public charge rule that would prevent individuals from... Read more
A federal judge in Arizona has granted preliminary approval of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of... Read more
Madhuri Grewal & Yesenia Chavez The budget for Trump’s turbo-charged immigration enforcement and border milit... Read more
Rep. Daymon Ely and Rep. Joy Garratt It was a mundane and typical American activity. Families doing their back-to... Read more
Maribel Hastings Over the weekend, two of the main daily papers in the United States, The New York Times and the... Read more
Justin Vest Last week, I dropped my kids off for their first day of school in our small Alabama town of not even... Read more
Maribel Hastings y David Torres Racism and prejudice incite violence. That is a fact that this country knows very... Read more
Rachel Hodes As I stepped inside the Cannon House Office Building on a Tuesday in July, I felt like I was taking... Read more
Pablo Pratt As presidential candidates roll out proposals to make college affordable, higher education is taking... Read more
Blanca Banuelos First and foremost, we need to stop calling these places “Detention Centers” and start calling th... Read more
Rev. John Dear This week, we drove back up the remote New México mountains to the “atomic city” for o... Read more
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Advocates for immigrant families and economic opportunity spoke out against a new Trump administrati... Read more
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El Paso’s Strong But Wounded Heart
María García Something clicks inside of me every time I land in El Paso. My shoulders make peace with my neck.... Read more