https://dan.thedigradio.com dd Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:16:48 +0000 https://dan.thedigradio.com en https://dan.thedigradio.com/Overview Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:16:48 +0000 dd https://dan.thedigradio.com/Overview Featured Articles <img width="1400" height="1515" width_o="1400" height_o="1515" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/626f4651362cb27c1087d858fad4bbd1d7673856f39011d96f432451fc2120fe/I48_Daniel-Denvir_Cameron-Masters.png" data-mid="230396462" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/626f4651362cb27c1087d858fad4bbd1d7673856f39011d96f432451fc2120fe/I48_Daniel-Denvir_Cameron-Masters.png" />n+1, September 2024 Do BorderImmigration politics and the nativist cycle “If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.” These were the words not of Donald Trump, but of President Joe Biden, speaking in January in support of a bipartisan immigration deal then being negotiated in the Senate. As often happens, Biden’s impolitic pronouncement captured the larger dynamics at play. The Democrats are defending themselves against Republican attacks on immigration by going on offense — but for the most part, they’re doing so on Republican terms. <img width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ebd33b505bcd90b983ee5cb7574feff29824ef49fe7754450b61af583f04f27b/lafaye-gaskins-900x600-1.jpg" data-mid="213601149" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/ebd33b505bcd90b983ee5cb7574feff29824ef49fe7754450b61af583f04f27b/lafaye-gaskins-900x600-1.jpg" /> Philadelphia Magazine, June 2023 LaFaye Gaskins, Whose Conviction Was the Subject of a Philly Mag Investigation, Freed From PrisonI visited Philly last week to spend time with LaFaye Gaskins, whose murder conviction I investigated for this magazine in 2016. Gaskins, 54, walked out of prison on the morning of Friday, June 9th, after spending 34 years behind bars on a life sentence for a murder there was no evidence he had committed. “It makes me feel like I’m a tourist coming to a city that I don’t know,” he told me. “And I’m just walking around trying to figure everything out. That’s how I feel. Even when I went to my old neighborhood, it’s totally different.” <img width="640" height="424" width_o="640" height_o="424" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/88042a005aaf3f0db2022bad4f3a8a1261c69866ec56c025fc28c3d159c6bc19/34165202502_e6c473893b_z.jpg" data-mid="213601107" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/88042a005aaf3f0db2022bad4f3a8a1261c69866ec56c025fc28c3d159c6bc19/34165202502_e6c473893b_z.jpg" /> n+1, April 2018 ZOMBIE LIBERALISMA plea for liberal nationalism ignores what it has looked like in practice In February, US Citizenship and Immigration Services deleted language from its mission statement that described the country as a “nation of immigrants.” It was yet another sign that a belief pervasive in the Trump White House—that arrivals from Latin America, Asia and Africa posed a threat to an American identity truly rooted in European culture—was spreading to other institutions of government. Last year, Trump invoked Blut-und-Boden nationalism before an audience in Warsaw. “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” Trump said. Published Works Slate, May 2023 JUST BUILD THE HOMES n+1, December 2021&nbsp; BORDER CRISES Jacobin, August 2020 AFTER 2020 THERE’S NO GOING BACK TO THE OLD AMERICA Jacobin, June 2020 DONALD TRUMP IS A MENACE TO AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. BUT HE DIDN’T COME OUT OF NOWHERE. Jacobin, April 2020 BERNIE MUST RETOOL HIS CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION, NOT DISMANTLE IT The Guardian, April 2020 IN TRUE NATIVIST FASHION, TRUMP IS BLAMING IMMIGRANTS FOR US PROBLEMS&nbsp; New Republic, April 2020 HOW DEMOCRATS LET THE RIGHT WIN ON IMMIGRATION Jacobin, February 2020 THE DEEP ROOTS OF TRUMP’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT POLICIES Jacobin, February 2020 HOW NATIVISM WENT MAINSTREAM Jacobin,&nbsp;January 2020 WHAT A BERNIE SANDERS PRESIDENCY WOULD LOOK LIKE Jacobin, November 2019 TODAY’S SOCIALIST REVIVAL BEGAN ON THE STREETS OF SEATTLE 20 YEARS AGO Jacobin,&nbsp;November 2019 BERNIE SANDER’S NEW IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL IS INCREDIBLY STRONG Jacobin, April 2020 HOW BERNIE SHOULD TALK ABOUT BORDERS New York Times, February 2019 THE CASE AGAINST ‘BORDER SECURITY’International Viewpoint, July 2018 THE ROOTS OF TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION BARBARITYThe Appeal, April 2018 CASSCADE OF OVERTURNED CASES MAY EMERGE IN WAKE OF PHILLY DA’S BAD COP LIST Slate, March 2018 TRUMP’S CALL TO EXECUTE DRUG DEALERS MAY BE DICTATOR-INSPIRED, BUT ITS ROOTS ARE ALL-AMERICAN The Appeal, March 2018 PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEY GENERAL SHUTS DOWN BIDS FOR FREEDOMIn These Times, February 2018&nbsp; &nbsp; WE CAN FIGHT FOR GUN CONTROL WITHOUT LOCKING PEOPLE UP The Appeal, January 2018 PHILADELPHIA MEDIA SLAM NEWLY ELECTED DA KRASNER FOR FIRINGS BUT HOUSE CLEANING ADVANCES HIS PROMISE OF EQUAL JUSTICE Slate,&nbsp;January 2018 THE OPIOD CRISIS IS BLURRING THE LEGAL LINES BETWEEN VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR The Nation, December 2017 &nbsp;&nbsp; THESE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ARE MAKING A KILLING OFF THE OPIOID CRISESThe Nation, November 2017&nbsp; PHILADELPHIA JUST ELECTED THE MOST RADICAL DA IN THE COUNTRY—NOW WHAT?The Nation, October 2017&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; THIS CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER IS ON THE PATH TO BECOMING PHILLY’S NEXT DAThe Appeal, October 2017 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER JUST ENDORSED MASS INCARCERATIONThe Washington Post, July 2017 &nbsp; DEPORTING PEOPLE MADE CENTRAL AMERICA’S GANGS. MORE DEPORTATION WON’T HELP. Slate, May 2017 CANADA FIGURED OUT HOW TO WIN THE DRUG WAR Vox, April 2017 A DISGRACED EX-CONGRESSMAN TELLS US WHAT IT'S LIKE TO GO DOWN IN A WASHINGTON SCANDAL Vice, March 2017&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; WHY COPS DON’T GET CHARGED WITH CRIMES WHEN THEY LIEPrison Legal News, March 2017 THE VIOLENT AMERICAN EPIDEMIC YOU WON’T HEAR ABOUT: WHY PRISON ABUSE GOES UNREPORTED AND UNPUNISHED Slate,&nbsp;February 2017 THE FALSE PROMISE OF SANCTUARY CITIES The Guardian, December 2016 WHY IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OPPOSING RIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANT DETAINEES? Vox, November 2016 THE US-MEXICO BORDER IS NOT A HELLSCAPE: DEBUNKING THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN'S FOUNDING MYTH Vice, November 2016 TWO YEARS AFTER FERGUSON, MISSOURI COPS ARE ACCUSED OF SHAKING DOWN THE POORThe Guardian, November 2016&nbsp; &nbsp; OBAMA CREATED A DEPORTATION MACHINE. SOON IT WILL BE TRUMPSVox, October 2016 WHY WOMEN ARE STILL VOTING FOR TRUMP, DESPITE HIS MISOGYNY Salon, September 2016 &nbsp;&nbsp; ON REFUGEES WE MUST DO BETTER: TRUMPS RHETORIC IS WORSE, BUT BOTH PARTIES HAVE FAILED Salon, July 2016 &nbsp; CRIMINALIZING THE HUSTLE: POLICING POOR PEOPLE’S SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FROM ERIC GARNER TO ALTON STERLING Salon, June 2016 &nbsp; THE FERGUSON EFFECT DEBUNKED: THE THEORY NOT ONLY LACKS EVIDENCE, IT MAKES NO SENSE Salon,&nbsp;May 2016 &nbsp; AN ENTIRE CLASS OF AMERICANS MISUNDERSTOOD AND REJECTED: DISMISSING WHITE WORKERS IS PROFOUNDLY REACTIONARY Salon, April 2016 &nbsp; THE VIOLENT AMERICAN EPIDEMIC YOU WON’T HEAR ABOUT: WHY PRISON ABUSE GOES UNREPORTED AND UNPUNISHED The Nation,&nbsp;May 2015&nbsp; &nbsp; IT’S ELECTION DAY IN PHILADELPHIA: WILL A TRIO OF WEALTHY SCHOOL REFORMERS’ BUY THE MAYOR’S RACE? The Nation, August 2015 &nbsp; WHY WERE ATLANTA TEACHERS PROSECUTED UNDER A LAW MEANT FOR ORGANIZED CRIME? The Nation, September 2014&nbsp; HOW TO DESTROY A PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEM New Republic, May 2013 THE WORST GUN CONTROL IDEA HAS BIPARTISAN SUPPORT New Republic, April 2013 ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SCANDAL ISN’T LOCAL The Nation, October 2008&nbsp; &nbsp; PALIN DROPS THE PUCK