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Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, New Jersey, on Sept. 27, 2021. 

6 months after evacuation, thousands of Afghan families are waiting to reunite

Refugees

​​​​​​​Ahmad Naem Wakili, who worked as a judge in Afghanistan, landed in Arizona after getting evacuated from the country last August. But a bureaucratic quagmire is still keeping his wife and daughter abroad. Thousands of others face a similar legal limbo. 

Adela Diaz says the coronavirus pandemic has brought new urgency to her college major in public health.

A young Latina voter in Arizona reflects on the contentious 2020 election

Una photo con el collage de 8 retratos de jovenes sobre un fondo negro.

Estos son los jóvenes votantes latinos de ‘Cada 30 Segundos’

Every 30 Seconds
An empty water bottle lays on the dirt behind a string of barbed wire

Crimes of compassion: US follows Europe’s lead in prosecuting those who help migrants

Immigration
A young child is shown holding a doll by the arm.

Arizona monastery, motel turned into migrant shelters

Global Politics
Members of the former Tucson Pantsuit Nation group has created a new organization called Project Nexis.

How a convert balances her white privilege and Muslim identity in the Trump era

Justice

A former Pantsuit Nation group goes rogue, searching for a way to balance white feminism and inclusion.

Reporter Rupa Shenoy with Luis Valdez, a former Mexican American Studies studies student who says the program put him on a path that led his recent completion of a phD in public health.

After a 10-year saga, Tucson teachers are validated when a judge calls state law racist

Education

It took 10 years, but Tucson teachers feel validated by a judge’s finding that an Arizona state law is racist toward Mexican American students.

Man standing in front of ranch sign and American flag

This rancher in Arizona doesn’t necessarily want a wall — but he does want more done along the border

Justice

Ed Ashurst says the smuggling of drugs and people across the border needs to be seen as a real, national problem. Something, he says, the government isn’t doing.

The World

In Arizona’s wake, gun control for the mentally ill?

Conflict & Justice

Much has been made of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner’s troubled state of mind by police and former classmates. But if Loughner’s mental issues were a factor in Saturday’s attacks, does it follow that we should screen people for mental illness before allowing them to purchase guns? Is this even possible? And more importantly, do […]

The World

This week’s agenda: China, health care, economy

Global Politics

China’s President Hu Jintao is heading to the United States this week and will meet with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday. Marcus Mabry, associate national editor for The New York Times, and Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC, discuss what they expect to come out of this meeting between […]