Journalists have broad rights to publish — but far fewer to investigate. Here’s a map of the legal tripwires, from hidden cameras to border searches.
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A Chicana artist navigating life between two countries–where immigration raids in LA and anti-gentrification protests in Mexico City complicate where she can call home.
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Reclaiming history from the ruins.
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Despite political rhetoric and higher visa fees, visitors from Mexico are a booming, bright spot for U.S. border economies, driven by family, shopping, and deep-rooted ties.
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When federal threats met institutional silence, 3,000 trans patients at Children's Hospital Los Angeles lost the care that kept them alive. Twenty miles away, another hospital made a different choice.
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"He was his best friend," says the attorney for a distraught El Paso man whose dog was killed inside his own home during an immigration check that found no wrongdoing.
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A bureaucratic curveball strands a borderland team.
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A band founded by a father and son has been key to the rise of Mexican culture and music in the Big Apple, and seeks to share traditional Mexican music with generations to come.
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In her new novel, author Mirta Ojito looks at a haunting question: How can an ancestor die in a shipwreck, yet be your grandmother?
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A gold mine in Mexico's Sonoran desert was taken over by the sons of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexican officials and military generals said they would help an American businessman reclaim the mine — after hefty bribes. For one man, reclaiming the mine was more than a business proposition. It was a reckoning with his past and a chance to pay back the orphanage that raised him.
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In his new collection, National Book Award winner Martín Espada uses Puerto Rico's invasive reptiles to connect the island's past struggles to its present reality.
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A band founded by a father and son has been key to the rise of Mexican culture and music in the Big Apple, and seeks to share traditional Mexican music with generations to come.
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Una banda fundada por padre e hijo ha sido clave para el florecimiento de la cultura mexicana en la Gran Manzana, mientras comparten esta música tradicional con las futuras generaciones.
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Activists and residents organize fearing their city might be a hotspot of exposure to a dangerous chemical.
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When federal threats met institutional silence, 3,000 trans patients at Children's Hospital Los Angeles lost the care that kept them alive. Twenty miles away, another hospital made a different choice.
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From Jenna Ortega to Pedro Pascal, actors are breaking through as global stars, but industry insiders and researchers say real progress requires more behind the camera.
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El bilingüismo, la resiliencia cultural y la mirada bicultural no son solo adornos en el currículum: pueden ser los ases bajo la manga de los latinos que al montarse en la ola de la inteligencia artificial.
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In arid New Mexico, a massive data center campus promises jobs, but residents fear it will drain their most precious resource: water.
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Border militarization is making it harder for healthcare workers to reach people who use drugs.
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Una artista chicana oscila entre dos países, en donde las redadas migratorias en Los Ángeles y las protestas contra la gentrificación en la Ciudad de México complican su porvenir.
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