The panic about migration, it strikes me, is really a panic about the future — and about progress. Migrants are individuals making a profound, risky bet that by undertaking the rare and difficult decision to leave home, they can build something new. Behind opposition to migration is often the reverse: a belief that the only way to protect the futur... See more

The system of checks and balances that I believed to exist in grade school has been shattered, as a man with a red baseball cap has torn down the curtain he didn't even try to hide behind. Our emerald city is bleeding and in between beatings we continue to drink the Kool-Aid and joke about moving across borders, when deep down we know we're too com... See more