Alejandro Alvarez

Washington, D.C.

Digital Journalist and Associate Producer at CBS News

Photographer and digital storyteller roaming the streets of the nation’s capital. Drawn to politics and world events. Find me on Bsky + Insta at aletakesphotos.

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Articles

Pennsylvania sheriff says he’s being slandered with ‘Holocaust-era language’ over ICE alliance

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Alejandro Alvarez

PHILADELPHIA - Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran says some opponents of his plan to have the department partner with ICE have used "Holocaust-era language" to slander him as the state's only Jewish sheriff.
Trump administration cuts $600,000 from Pa. Innocence Project

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Alejandro Alvarez

PHILADELPHIA - The Trump administration has terminated a three-year, $600,000 grant to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, which has helped exonerate around 35 people in the state incarcerated for crimes they didn't commit. The nonprofit learned about the cuts, from funds initially awarded by the U.S. Department of Justice, last week.
A science program was poised to reach kids across Philly. Then DOGE killed the funding

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Alejandro Alvarez

PHILADELPHIA - In 2023, Historic Germantown received word that it had won a two-year grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to pilot a new hands-on science program for middle schoolers called Science Sleuths. The size of the award was relatively modest - $108,812 - but the impact promised to be enormous. If the initiative was able to prove its worth, it could be replicated, bringing accessible science education to thousands of Philadelphia students.
This principal struggled as a student. Now she inspires kids

4 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Alejandro Alvarez

PHILADELPHIA -- Awilda Balbuena graduated from high school unable to read proficiently. She was rejected from every law school she applied to. Now, she's one of Philadelphia's best school leaders, the recipient of a 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Principal Leadership.
Cuatrifinio argentino: el curioso lugar que se merece un monumento turístico

4 weeks ago | ciudadano.news | Alejandro Alvarez

Punto clave Los ejemplos en que cuatro regiones, provincias, estados o departamentos confluyan en un mismo punto son escasos en el planeta. La Argentina es uno de los pocos países que cuentan con dicha particularidad. Los fanáticos de la historia o geografía suelen encontrar lugares exóticos, extraños y poco usuales, donde disfrutan tanto o más que aquellos que compran un paquete turísticocon todas las comodidades listas.
Should cursive writing make a comeback?

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Alejandro Alvarez

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli's fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in workbooks. With their heads bowed, the students carefully followed instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word already printed in the workbook and then tried writing it freehand in their own penmanship. "Take your time," Durelli instructed.
For $300,000, you could buy a home in Philly or make the typical down payment in San Jose

1 month ago | miamiherald.com | Alejandro Alvarez

PHILADELPHIA -- Homebuyers in California are shelling out over $100,000 more as a down payment than the typical Philadelphia buyer pays for their whole home. December's median down payment in the San Jose, California, area was $386,000, or 25% of the purchase price, according to a Redfin analysis of county data for 40 of the country's most populous metropolitan areas.
Will-Smith-Philadelphia

1 month ago | djournal.com | Alejandro Alvarez

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El Manual del Golpe Blando: estrategias para la desestabilización

2 months ago | derechadiario.com.ar | Alejandro Alvarez

Las democracias enfrentan amenazas que no siempre se presentan de manera directa o convencional. En la actualidad, se observa la aplicación sistemática de estrategias de desestabilización con el objetivo de socavar gobiernos democráticos y forzar su caída sin recurrir a un golpe de Estado clásico. Este método, conocido como "golpe blando", se estructura en fases bien definidas, cada una diseñada para debilitar progresivamente al gobierno en turno hasta llevarlo a un punto de crisis irreversible.
Christopher Bell

2 months ago | azdailysun.com | Alejandro Alvarez

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