Stephen Lemons

Stephen Lemons is a former staff writer and columnist at Phoenix New Times. He continues to cover Arizona news and politics for New Times with support from the grant-funded Arizona Watchdog Project.

Latest Stories

a series of presidents-as-dominos — from bill clinton to george bush to barack obama to joe biden — knock into each other, pushing a trump domino onto a small family in the desert

How Clinton and Obama Helped Build Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine

By Stephen Lemons

color snapshot of a young boy with shaggy shoulder-length brown hair, wearing a t-shirt and a black ball cap perched high on his head, looking into the camera

Seath Jackson: The Murder Case That Refuses to Die

By Stephen Lemons and Others

The Battle Over Backpage.com Rages, Threatening Free Speech and the Internet as We Know It

By Stephen Lemons

Protest Stupid, Racist Laws

By Stephen Lemons

Operation Streamline treats migrants like cattle

By Stephen Lemons