Ray Levy Uyeda

In response to a pandemic and government-induced economic downturn, Colombian President Iván Duque, who was elected in 2018, announced in late April that taxes would be raised on everyday goods in order to fund social programs. While the tax plan…

Tuesday, May 25, marks the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Over the past 12 months, his death has served as a rallying cry for countless racial and social justice movements not only in the United…

When former President Donald Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett as his pick for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last fall, it solidified the high court's right-wing lean for a generation at least. Barrett was…

Last year, as Maggie, a 30-something Brooklynite, navigated the coronavirus pandemic, she learned that she would have to navigate another, more personal challenge at the same time: getting an abortion. For Maggie (who declined to provide her last…

Nearly one month after President Biden announced that his administration would take a red pen to his predecessor's immigration policies, Democratic leaders in Congress unveiled more than 350 pages of text detailing the changes. The broad strokes of…

With more COVID-19 related infections and deaths reported each day, incarcerated people living inside jails and prisons are among the most vulnerable. Prisons and jails are superspreader settings because those facilities aren't built to support…

Just days after the U.S. Senate voted 57-43 to acquit former President Donald Trump for the second time, it seems that a majority of Republican voters feel that their representatives voted exactly correctly. A new Politico/Morning Consult poll taken…

On Jan. 20, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, marking the official end of the Donald Trump presidency and signaling a shift in governance. But two weeks earlier, something equally — or perhaps even more — important…

Police arrested Janet Irvin on Tuesday in connection with the death of 15-year-old Quawan Charles. Irvin was one of the last people to see Charles alive before his body was found in a sugar cane field in November. Irvin now faces two charges, one of…

One of the first moves President Biden made after he took the oath of office was pausing deportations for 100 days. The move was seen as a welcome change of pace from the Trump administration — but advocates say that Immigration and Customs…

According to testimony from three men incarcerated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, guards used the threat of coronavirus to pressure them to comply with a deportation order. The three men, incarcerated at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing…

This time last year, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Reps. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) and Alma Adams (D-N.C.) introduced a slate of legislative proposals aimed at mitigating the Black maternal mortality crisis in the U.S. But between the presidential…

Two years ago, when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced the landmark Green New Deal legislation, many members of Congress had yet to acknowledge that climate change is indeed an existential threat. Washington looks a bit different now,…

A shocking new report on the failures and negligence of the U.S. Border Patrol details how the agency, which seemingly bills itself as "humanitarian," may actually be responsible for allowing hundreds of people to go missing. The report, titled…

Despite the mountains of evidence that direct cash payments save lives, elected leaders in Washington, D.C., are still squabbling about who exactly should receive checks, as well as how much those checks should be for. The details around stimulus…

On Tuesday, President Biden signed three executive orders reversing some Trump-era immigration policies, which largely criminalized immigration and migration and punished those attempting to make a home in the U.S. "We're going to work to undo the…

In about two months, the former police officer who killed Minneapolis resident George Floyd will stand trial. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, will face charges of manslaughter and second-degree murder. A video of…

On Sunday, the Rochester, N.Y. Police Department released footage from officer body cameras of a Friday afternoon arrest during which they handcuffed and pepper sprayed a 9-year-old girl. The arrest was widely scrutinized on social media after the…

How long the country wrestles with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic will be directly tied to the actions the government takes right now. Among those actions is a call for a direct cash payment. Americans got their first stimulus…