Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Inside the $1B deal to detain Central American asylum seekers
How the Corrections Corporation of America scored a billion-dollar, no-bid contract to construct an enormous facility to detain Central American asylum-seekers
By Madeleine Brand • • 52m ListenIn a foreign policy speech Monday, Donald Trump proposed significant changes to the US immigration system, including an ideological questionnaire for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the US.
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5 storiesTrump proposes ideological test for immigrants
Presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a foreign policy speech in Ohio Monday after a rocky period of missteps, including the back and forth with the father of a slain Muslim soldier, accusing President Obama of founding ISIS, and recent reports that Trump’s campaign manager received millions in cash from pro-Russia Ukrainian interests a few…
Read the story10 minInside the no-bid deal to detain Central American asylum seekers
Between July 2015 and June 2016, more than sixty-six thousand parents and children came across the US border from Central America to escape violence in their home countries.
Read the story6 minWhere does the first couple of Cali Ag get all its water?
Depending on whom you ask, billionaire mega-farmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick are either sinners or saints.
Read the story14 min'Hard Knocks:' Behind the scenes at LA Rams' training camp
After twenty-two years away, the Rams are back in LA. They beat the Dallas Cowboys at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday and will take on the Kansas City Chiefs at home next. The LA Rams have been training at U.C. Irvine.
Read the story9 minJapan's obsession with LA, circa 1976, is back
When it comes to fashion, art, and design, Tokyo has become one of the world’s trendsetters. But for a moment in 1976, Los Angeles was Tokyo’s muse. That was thanks to a Japanese pop culture and fashion magazine called “Popeye.”
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