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The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

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By Nikesh Shukla (editor), Chimene Suleyman (editor) — 2025

From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of white supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. See more...

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We Need to Talk about an Injustice | Bryan Stevenson

In an engaging and personal talk—with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks—human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been...

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American Democracy Cannot Breathe

Yes, we must radically transform policing in America. But we cannot stop there. We must transform the pervasive systems of economic and carceral injustice that are choking our common life.

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Policing, Mass Incarceration and Community Trauma

The impact of systemic racism in the U.S. legal system on affected communities.

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How America’s Justice System Is Rigged Against the Poor

There are invisible cages that extend far beyond prison walls. Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America’s jails and prisons.

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Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System

In this 2010 video, Prof. Daniel D'Amico argues that one of the reasons why minorities are grossly overrepresented in U.S. prisons may lie with the criminal justice system itself. Laws about drug prohibition, for example, are supposed to be color blind.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAn individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality

Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families.

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Damien Echols Says He Is Proof Arkansas Sends ‘Innocent People to Death’

To many, Mr. Echols’s celebrated release from death row in Arkansas in 2011 constitutes its own argument for abolishing capital punishment.

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Immigration and Assimilation