Jeffrey Kaye, a special correspondent for PBS, argues that policies to encourage immigration may actually hurt immigrants. Governments, corporations, recruiters, and even human smugglers all participate in what Kaye, author of Moving Millions: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration
Science writer Greg Critser knows the world may be a strange place in 2050 if humans are living longer: one in four people will be over 65, compared to one in nine today
Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School, characterizes snitching not as a single act but as an entire system of law enforcement and criminal justice. Especially since the War on Drugs began, she said, the U.S. has seen an increase in the use of informants and “the trading away of guilt,” changing the way we mete out justice, the length of sentences, the determination of who to prosecute, and the prison system.
Joyce Appleby, author of The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
Colette LaBouff Atkinson, Associate Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine this year, is a couple months into her post as Zócalo’s poetry editor, selecting published and unpublished works to post here every week. Atkinson stopped by Zócalo’s offices to read from her own collection of poems, Mean
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