by Mark Hedin | Oct 9, 2018 | Cover Story
A small school district in affluent Marin County, California, serving about 2,000 youngsters in the bucolic West Marin towns of Fairfax and San Anselmo, has contracted with Thomson Reuters, a firm linked to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to check on the...
by Rasana Atreya | Oct 1, 2018 | Cover Story, Videos
Why Women Don’t Walk Away From Abusive Marriages The woman on the phone will talk only if I promise not to identify her—not her first or last names, not the town she lives in. This woman, let’s call her Geeta, lives in the United States with her husband and two young...
by Mark Hedin | Sep 18, 2018 | Cover Story
U.S. citizens across the country will soon vote on all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, for 35 U.S. senators and three dozen governorships. The House of Representatives and possibly the Senate are up for grabs. Given the high stakes, voters would do well to...
by Vidya Pradhan | Sep 11, 2018 | Cover Story
I stumble out of bed at 4 a.m. groping for my glasses and slippers. Wondering what in the world possessed me to volunteer for such an early service, I am mindful of my sleepiness as I carefully drive the 30 minutes from Palo Alto to the Orchard St. homeless shelter in...
by Mark Hedin | Sep 10, 2018 | Cover Story
By Ethnic Media Services, San Francisco. Candidate Donald Trump rode his anti-immigrant rhetoric straight to the White House. Since then, he’s banned people from heavily Muslim-populated countries, taken children from their parents upon arrival at the Mexico border,...
by Vaishnavi Sridhar | Sep 3, 2018 | Cover Story
Hot, sweaty fingers run fruitlessly along the blurring lines. Under the spreading arms of a gnarled neem tree, she sits hunched over her Math homework, desperately holding back tears of humiliation. Yet another tutor glares at her reproachfully. “Why can’t you...
