Donald Trump faces a big obstacle in rolling out his travel ban: his own tweeting. The US president’s attempt to ban travelers from six majority-Muslim…
ALL EXPORTED OUT
The North American Free Trade Agreement is at an impasse because the US is tired of free trade
Talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) have survived their fourth round—barely. The latest meeting between the US, Mexico, and Canada, which…
BIDI BIDI BOM BOM
Selena was a “beacon of hope” for bicultural people—including the Googler behind her doodle homage
Google often celebrates cultural figures with a clever doodle on its search page. But it’s going all-out on its homage to Tex-Mex star Selena Quintanilla,…
NAFTA HEARTLAND
The trade-ravaged areas that voted for Trump have the most to lose from Trump’s anti-trade agenda
As billed during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump has been playing hardball on trade. He killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation trade agreement, during his…
DISCONNECTED SERVICE
Puerto Rico is still a disaster zone, three weeks after Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico on Sept. 20. Three weeks later, many residents still live like it’s the day after the storm made landfall.…
DONE DEAL?
Trump’s threats to tear up Nafta are starting to look less like a bluff to others at the negotiation table
Donald Trump again said Oct. 11 that he might terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) with Canada and Mexico—or he might not. In…
DOCUMENTING THE UNDOCUMENTED
The gory research that helped an academic anthropologist get a “genius” grant
Whatever your position on illegal immigration, the work of anthropologist Jason de León—one of this year’s recipients of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants—will ensure you…
TECATE TIME
A French artist is trolling Trump with installations that straddle the US-Mexico border
Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies are putting Tecate, Mexico, on the map. The small city across the border from California is the site for the second…
FOGGY BOTTOM
The classic crisis de-escalation techniques Tillerson, Puerto Rico, and Mexico are using with Trump
When an irritated aggressor is putting lives at risk, traditional forms of communication won’t do. For such situations, experts have clear guidelines for how to…
CITIZENS, BUT
Puerto Rico won’t recover from Maria unless the US stops treating it like a colony
Puerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them,” grumbled US president Donald Trump on Twitter over the weekend. It was one in a series…
AN EXPENSIVE HONOR
Trump in Puerto Rico tells hurricane victims: You’ve thrown our budget “out of whack”
During his first visit to Puerto Rico after it was rocked by two monster hurricanes, US president Donald Trump threw packages of paper towels into…
VERIFIED TRAGEDY
In both the US and Mexico, citizens led better disaster response than their governments
The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that jolted Mexico City on Sept. 19 unleashed an eruption of extraordinary needs. From one moment to the next, people began to…
