Tag: Public policy

Kenya Vaughn of The St. Louis American recaps Monday night in

A number of reports on the ongoing question of children at the US border:

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)

Following pastoral letters from Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Gay Clark Jennings, some churches in Episcopal dioceses along the border with Mexico have been working to meet local needs of migrant people. However, in the media, there are many conflicting reports and stories about reasons for the migrant crisis. At Vox, Dylan Matthews features an in-depth interview with Cynthia Arnson, the director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars:

“91 percent of the seafood Americans eat comes from abroad, but one-third of the seafood Americans catch gets sold to other countries.”

Paul Greenberg, author of the new book American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood talks with Fresh Air ‘s Terry Gross on seafood, not from the overfishing side, but the related

President Obama spoke on the Oregon shooting last night, as covered by The New York Times’ Mark Landler and Lee Van Der

Katie Rose Quandt in Mother Jones reports on a story where the use of solitary confinement in prisons is being challenged recently in New York, Colorado, Indiana, California, and in congressional