Michael Slager

Michael Slager is an English teacher at Loyola University Chicago.

For Millions of Impoverished Americans, an Unhappy National Birthday

A Culture of Violence Finds Its Nearly Perfect Number of Victims

When Democrats and Republicans Agree on Foreign Policy, Violence Often Results

Human Nature: It’s Just Common Sense

Fascism in the United States?

Haitian Exodus from Springfield, Ohio Might Be a Sign of Things to Come

A Meditation on Colonialism 

Migration is Not a Crime

The Trouble with Evil

A Growing Nuclear Threat Requires a Diplomatic Solution to the Russo-Ukrainian War

The Titanic and the Titan: Different Disasters, Similar Stories 

The Migrant “Crisis” and 10 Misperceptions About Immigration

Title 42, “Safe” Third Countries and Bipartisan Hypocrisy

Knowledge of Build Back Better is Power

“Where’s Your Plan?” Legalized Bribery and Climate Change

Immigration: the Past Could Become Prologue

Convenient Categorizing: Jeff Sessions and Immigration Law

Criminalizing Victims: the Fate of Honduran Refugees 

A School Shooting’s (Ir)rational Victims