历史学

Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world’s largest system of migrant incarceration.

And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil.

Debates over women’s right to bodily autonomy and how the government might best protect women marked the 2024 US presidential race.

There are always some good people who try to help out when disaster strikes. Tents, blankets, medicine and food enable refugees to survive at a minimal level. But none of this solves the underlying question of what to do with them if they can’t or won’t return to their homelands.

Today, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains an average of 37,000 migrants each night. To do so, they rely on, and pay for, the use of hundreds of local jails.