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Obama: Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't
With the passage of a bipartisan financial reform bill yesterday, President Obama should be basking in soaring poll numbers and popularity. He is delivering change in Washington D.C. as promised, scoring major legislative victories in the first two years of Read More …
The White House Confronts Arizona, But Not About Issues of Race
There’s something odd about the lawsuit the Obama administration recently filed against Arizona to challenge the state’s new anti-immigrant law, which gives law enforcement a free pass to conduct racial profiling in order to determine immigration status. It contains almost no language Read More …
The Racial Politics of Gun Control
Most Americans support the right to bear arms, but they also want to prevent gun violence in their communities. It’s that simple, right? Not exactly. In fact, it turns out that the country is fairly divided on gun control along Read More …
Asylum for Guatemalan Women Fleeing Violence
Can women constitute a particular social group for the purpose of asylum claims? The question may sound ridiculous, since we already grant asylum claims based on female infanticide. The Obama Administration also extended political asylum to women who suffer domestic Read More …
France Has a Muslim Problem
The French are no longer living under the pretense of liberal democracy and regulating aversion through tolerance. No, France is really laying the smack-down on Muslim immigrants. A Moroccan immigrant man who has been living in France since 1999 and Read More …