How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters
Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.
Our 4th anniversary party was a blast, Filmmaker Alex Rivera on his border sci-fi cult classic 'Sleep Dealer.' And humanitarian Scott Warren talks about his high-profile trial and the aftermath.
Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived." And Mexico and the US fund "water resiliency" for the Rio Grande, plus more news.
Todd Miller on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, and its fragility, and Pablo De La Rosa on Mexican communities pushing back against SpaceX, plus more from across the border.
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Support for Trump going way down in the Rio Grande Valley. And just how much are private companies making on immigration detention again?
The eery glow of immigration detention prisons at night. It's not border security, it's an act of war. And bring on the peacemakers.
Dr. Melody Glenn on the false narrative about Fentanyl, and a bipartisan congress built the largest immigrant detention system in the world. Advocate Jesse Franzblau talks about how we dismantle it.
Another National Defense Area declared in the Rio Grande Valley. What will this mean? And the philosophy behind a provocative housing project in Mexicali for those who dream another world is possible.
What does security actually mean as billions are funneled into walls and armed agents? And a historian explains the complicated story behind the new binational Tijuana River agreement.
A road trip through the American West leads to a haunting lesson about a past atrocity, plus a community-led solution in Mexicali to fight climate change. And, a new militarized zone in Yuma.
Immigrant communities under siege from the Trump administration, a fascinating podcast conversation about tech surveillance, Gaza, and U.S. borders with Todd Miller and Amali Tower, and more!
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