is a Distinguished Immigration Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, and the former executive director of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). She is writing a forthcoming book, Becoming ...

The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Wired, Mother Jones, Jezebel, Rolling Stone, and Elle, among others.

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The 1896 Democratic Convention, where William Jennings Bryan was nominated as the Democratic presidential nominee. Why don’t Democrats, rather than Republicans, call themselves the “Grand Old Party”?

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The historic labor act faces unprecedented assaults in the Trump era. Here’s what that means for our democracy.

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