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The Power of Perception: In Politics, Sentiment Trumps Fact

Karla Ramirez GonzalezMarch 21, 2025March 21, 2025

“Bread went from $3 [in 2020] to $6.50,” said Jack Dozier (YC ‘27), a sophomore from central Virginia. “Same store, same location.” Dozier identifies the kind of inflation nearly every American voter can relate to. Economic data feels abstract. The price of bread is concrete. 

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Terminating Temporary Protected Status: A Lose-Lose-Lose Situation

Kathy MinApril 5, 2018July 7, 2019

“Many of them lose status and become subject to deportation or go into the underground and not have the prospects they currently have in the U.S.”

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Whose Long Island? Immigrants Battle for Rights In Suburban New York

Sanoja BhaumikApril 27, 2017April 27, 2017

“In a lot of minds, Long Island is still a place for rich, white people.”

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Higher Education, Politicized: American Universities Respond to Trump’s Travel Ban

William VesterMarch 2, 2017March 5, 2017

In emails sent to students, press releases, and letters sent to President Trump, universities across the nation condemned the ban with a singular voice.

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Identity Under Attack: Rethinking the Muslim-American Experience

Jacob LevittNovember 17, 2016November 17, 2016

Violence against Muslims has increased in recent years—and might continue to do so.

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Immigration and National Disunity

Julia DingNovember 12, 2016

Julia Ding recaps Prof. Patrick Weil’s talk on immigration and national unity in France and America.

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The New Face of Immigrant America: Welcome to Jackson Heights

Sanoja BhaumikSeptember 6, 2016November 28, 2024

Director Frederick Wiseman’s portrait of a neighborhood reveals the new multiculturalism of the American immigrant experience.

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Unsafe in a Sanctuary City: New Haven Community Resists Immigration Raids

Camila Guiza-ChavezMay 19, 2016May 19, 2016

“Out of nowhere they knocked down doors.”

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