Refugees

Today in History for September 16th

Its Sept. 15, but because time has lost all context and meaning and we live in a ever-spinning technicolor nightmare kaleidoscope, we are entering week three of the one-sided feud Donald Trump has against federal weather agencies for questioning his incorrect…

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer unveiled a $6-billion tax cut Sunday in his first campaign swing through British Columbia. Scheer visited the home of a couple in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey to promise he will cut the tax rate on the lowest federal incom…

Faced with the escalating conflict in Idlib, authorities are beginning to get tough with Syrian refugees. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times/Representational Image) When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced in early September that Turkey could be forced t…

Art is, in part, a record: of abiding truths, of how ugliness and beauty coexist in the world, inextricably intertwined, and how we must acknowledge both, if not make peace between them. The American photographer Fazal Sheikhs portraits of Somali refugees tak…

But beyond the material question of enrichment is the spiritual one of ennoblement. Of what can Americans be more proud than that we so often opened our doors to those for whom every other door was shut? All of which makes this a moment of unique shame for t…

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a fierce dissent on Wednesday after a majority of her colleagues allowed President Donald Trump’s effort to ban most migrants from Central America from seeking asylum in the United States to go forward while legal c…

The immigration issue already had a noticeable impact on the race during the first round of Democratic debates in June. On the first night, Mr. Castro pointedly asked the other candidates to join him in supporting the repeal of a statute that makes crossing t…

You could feel the pride pulsating across Canada on Saturday afternoon as Mississauga-born Bianca Andreescu beat higher-ranked Serena Williams in straight sets at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. The 19-year-old ignored the hype surrounding Ms. Wi…