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Gang Violence
September 25, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Migrant Lies Are Somehow Even More Detached From Reality
Donald Trump has managed to make his “immigrants eating pets” conspiracy even more dangerous.
September 9, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Lauren Boebert’s Attempt to Mimic Trump’s Gang Claims Backfires
The Colorado Republican elevated Donald Trump’s conspiracy theory that Venezuelan gangs have taken over random apartment complexes.
September 4, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump Says Gangs Overran an Apartment Complex. Here’s the Truth.
Surprise, surprise: Donald Trump is spreading more xenophobic falsehoods.
December 17, 2021
Timothy Noah
Why
West Side Story
Leaves Out African Americans
The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place—bear with me—in Los Angeles.
May 3, 2021
Jordan Heller
He’s a Big City Mayor. His Grandsons Are Suspected Gang Members.
Frank G. Jackson rose to power in Cleveland as a champion of the people. But a lawsuit says he has used his influence to protect his family from the law.
October 21, 2020
Laura Weiss
Confronting the Deep Roots of Violence in El Salvador
Roberto Lovato’s “Unforgetting” explores the traumatic history of a country torn apart by wars and gangs—and the dangers of not facing the past.
October 20, 2020
Hilary Beaumont
The Anguish of Watching the Election From the Purgatory of a Border Camp
Asylum-seekers stranded in Matamoros, Mexico, have a plea for voters in November: Elect Joe Biden and “get us out of this hell.”
November 5, 2018
Molly O'Toole
Can Megachurches Save El Salvador?
In a country torn apart by gang violence—forcing many to flee to the United States—evangelicalism is offering gang members a way out.
July 10, 2014
Danny Vinik
Honduras's Murder Rate Is Six Times Worse Than Chicago's. How Can We Send Children Back to That?
June 4, 2013
Saul Elbein
The Most Dangerous Job in the World
How did 900 bus drivers end up dead in Guatemala City?
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