Posts in Politics
To Be Asian and Atlantan Today

A horrific shooting in suburban Atlanta is a stark reminder of what’s before us: Hate crimes against Asians in the United States are up 150%, a product of the vitriol contained in phrases like “China virus.” We must recognize this for what it is -- a symptom of an epidemic.

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Feature, Politicspalabra.
Block The Vote

Hundreds of proposed local voting laws threaten the votes of Latinos and others, a new lawsuit charges. The bills are competing against a federal effort to expand mail-in voting and other measures that fueled record turnout last November.

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Feature, Politicspalabra.
A Plastics Polemic

Mexico City’s progressive ban on single-use plastics is hailed as a great step for the environment. But the ban has ignited controversy: It includes tampons with plastic applicators, putting a widely used product out of reach for millions of women

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Feature, Politicspalabra.
Detained. Deported. Infected.

The United States and Brazil have some of the world’s highest COVID-19 numbers. And as U.S. deportation flights continue sending Brazilians home during the pandemic, inadequate health care by immigration officials has aggravated an outbreak in Governador Valadares, a small city in southeastern Brazil with almost 8,000 infections and 267 deaths.

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