Otherhood

The US drew a line in the sand, and Americans chose where to stand. Now people are examining strangers out of the corner of their eye, wondering just how much they don't know about who lives around them.

Has Donald Trump helped fuel racism? Has he helped us confront it? Or, is former MSNBC Host Melissa Harris Perry right — is Trump just the current scapegoat for a country that avoids confronting its past?

In the burning heat of Arizona's vast, mostly empty Wild West desert, young Mexican American teenagers decide between working for the border guard or for the cartels smuggling drugs and people north. The kids that choose to be border agents face anger within their own families, as migrants desperate to come to the US die nameless deaths.

TCKs — or third culture kids — often lie when asked when they're from.

A secret US war created a new generation of Americans who changed foreign policy.

Many of the most successful immigrants and kids of immigrants in the country know each other and hang out.

If every action starts with emotion, then current feelings about police violence may predict the possible future.

“Technically we have it double as bad — because we’re Muslim and black.”

Juliette Kayyem says the best way to prevent terrorism is to integrate Others.

CNN National Security analyst, former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, and Lebanese-American Juliette Kayyem says the best way to prevent terrorism is to integrate Others – and accept that, in some cases, they might support Donald Trump.