Statues celebrating Confederates and conquistadors keep old myths alive, with stories of “benevolent slave owners,” heroic colonizers and enslaved people “contented with their lot.”
New Mexico
Posted inImmigration, Inequality
‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
Internal emails show ICE rebuffed New Mexico public health officials offering to help contain COVID-19.
Posted inHate
Founder of New Mexico’s new militia was a neo-Nazi skinhead
Facebook took down hundreds of pages Wednesday in a crackdown on “movements and organizations tied to violence.” Among them was a right-wing militia.
Posted inSustainability, The (Un)Scientific Method
Countless archaeological sites at risk in Trump oil and gas auction
The administration is expediting leases of public land without analyzing all available data on Native American ruins.
Posted inSustainability, The (Un)Scientific Method
EPA budget cuts threaten to slow uranium cleanup at Navajo Nation
Dangerous remnants of the region’s Cold War boom, more than 500 uranium mines were abandoned on and near the Navajo reservation.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era, The Wall
Up against the wall
This episode of Reveal explores the political, logistical and geographic barriers that could get in the way of President Donald Trump’s plan for a bor
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era, The Wall
The Wall: Explore the US-Mexico border fence
Bids are out for President Donald Trump’s border wall and a draft plan envisions fencing and walls along at least 1,200 additional miles of the Mexican border by 2020. Here’s the status of the current border fence based on data we’ve been collecting and analyzing for years.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Inequality
Bail amendment passes convincingly
New Mexicans overwhelmingly voted to limit the role of money in judges’ decisions about which defendants stay locked up and which go free before trial.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Criminal Justice, Inequality, Voting
New Mexico vote: Should people be stuck in jail because they’re poor?
On Nov. 8, New Mexicans will vote on a constitutional amendment to overhaul the use of money bail in the state.
Posted inAccountability, And Justice for Some, Criminal Justice, Money and Politics
And justice for some
We begin an occasional series we’re calling And Justice for Some – an investigation into how the courts treat people differently.