Lies About Immigration Help No One
When politicians are no longer punished by voters for repeating racist slander, it’s bad news for society.
Caitlin Dickerson
Caitlin Dickerson has been a staff writer at The Atlantic since 2021. In 2023, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the Livingston Award for National Reporting, and the Silvers-Dudley Prize.
Before joining The Atlantic, Dickerson spent five years as a reporter for The New York Times, and five years as a producer and reporter for NPR. Her investigative reporting and long-form feature writing have also been recognized with a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow award, and two National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence awards. Her Pulitzer-winning work was published in The Best American Magazine Writing 2023.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: CSA Images / Getty. Setenta millas en el infierno
El Tapón del Darién fue alguna vez considerado intransitable. Ahora cientos de miles de migrantes se arriesgan a atravesar un terreno peligroso, a sufrir violencia, hambre y enfermedad para llegar por medio de la selva hasta Estados Unidos.
Lynsey Addario para The Atlantic con el apoyo de National Geographic Society Seventy Miles in Hell
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
Lynsey Addario for The Atlantic with support from National Geographic Society There’s No Such Thing as a Border Czar
Trying to stop migration at the border is like telling someone they can’t run a marathon when they’re at the finish line.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Celine Dion May Never Perform Again
In a new documentary, the singer talks about her autoimmune disease and her love for singing.
Nina Westervelt / The New York Times / Redux ‘I Am Pleasing to Everyone’
I can’t stop watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Netflix The ‘Permanently Orphaned’
Migrant families won their case against the government, but the damage can’t be undone.
Illustration by The Atlantic The Specter of Family Separation
Donald Trump and his allies have promised to restore their draconian zero-tolerance immigration policy.
John Moore / Getty El espectro de la separación familiar
Donald Trump y sus aliados han prometido restaurar su draconiana política de inmigración de tolerancia cero.
John Moore / Getty Radio Atlantic: How Germany Remembers the Holocaust
What can memorials to tragedy in Germany tell Americans about how to remember slavery in the U.S.?
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