Perspective

America, Forty-Three Years After Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Speech

On March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan warned that the Soviet Union was “the focus of evil in the modern world” and urged Americans to resist “the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.” Years later, in his Farewell Address, he called America a shining city on a hill. Together, those ideas shaped the moral vocabulary…

Let Them Stay: Guervens’ Story

Guervens’ story is a testament to the power of pathways like CHNV — and why we must fight back against the stripping of humanitarian parole.

Lucky Karim: Advocate, Refugee Returns to Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh

Refugees International Fellow Lucky Karim lived as a refugee for years in the Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp in Bangladesh before being resettled in the United States in 2023. In February 2025, she returned to the camp for the first time as an advocate with Refugees International.