Who Can Afford to Stay Healthy? Economists Warn Rural Health Fund Falls Short of a Lasting Fix By Nasreen Khan, South Asian Chronicle for American Community Media | September 18, 2026 A rural road in the United States. More than 66 million Americans, one in five people nationwide, live in rural areas. A System Under Pressure Rural healthcare in the United States is approaching a breaking point, according to a national briefing convened on September 18, 2026, by American Community Media in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The…
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ICE Surveillance and Flock Cameras: Immigrant Life in America
Twenty Billion Scans a Month: Inside the Surveillance Dragnet Reshaping Immigrant Life in America By Nasreen Khan | South Asian Chronicle | 16 September 2026 SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past year, ICE raids have surged across major American cities, with some 590,000 immigrants rounded up and a record 50,000 detained in July alone. On 10 September, American Community Media brought researchers, data scientists, organisers and a former industry insider to the World Affairs Center in San Francisco to explain how that machinery actually works — and what, if anything,…
Read MoreSuper El Niño 2026: Historic Pacific Warming Could Impact Texas and California
Super El Niño Bears Down: What a Historic Pacific Warming Means for Texas, California and Beyond By Tariq Khan | Pakistan Chronicle | August 21, 2026 A Copernicus Climate Change Service forecast map, built on the ECMWF SEAS5 model, shows sea-surface temperature anomalies exceeding 2°C across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific by October 2026. (Image courtesy of Daniel Swain / American Community Media) HOUSTON — For Tariq Khan, publisher of Pakistan Chronicle and South Asian Chronicle, extreme weather in Texas is not an abstraction. Nearly a decade after…
Read MoreNew Public Charge Rules Create Uncertainty for Immigrants and Families
New Public Charge Rules Have Chilling Effects on Immigrants and Their Children New federal rule threatens Medicaid and food-security gains for South Asian and mixed-status immigrant families By Nasreen Khan | South Asian Chronicle A Sweeping Expansion of an Old Rule South Asian immigrant families, many of them in mixed-status households with U.S.-citizen children, are among those most likely to be affected by a revived and dramatically expanded public charge rule set to take effect September 18, health and immigration policy experts said during a national news briefing hosted by…
Read MoreLatino Vote 2026: What Will Shape Hispanic Voters in U.S. Midterms?
The Latino Vote: Profiling America’s Changing Electorate First in a Series Ahead of the 2026 Midterms American Community Media National News Briefing | Friday, 28 August 2026 One Briefing, One Question: What Moves Latino Voters American Community Media hosted “The Latino Vote: Profiling America’s Changing Electorate,” the opening instalment in a national briefing series examining the electorate ahead of the 2026 midterms, on 28 August 2026. Rather than a single storyline, the hour long conversation among Republican strategist Mike Madrid, Equis Research’s Maria Isabel Di Franco Quinonez, Virginia Union University’s…
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