Automaker Ford said June 20 it won’t move production of its Focus model from the US to Mexico after all. The company now plans to…
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Fake evidence of affairs and other creepy ways government spyware is targeting Mexican journalists
“You don’t have the balls to watch how I make out with your partner.” That’s the kind of text message several journalists and human right…
A POLITICAL NIGHTMARE
If Trump’s new stance on Dreamers is a bargaining chip, he’s using it wrong
Some of Donald Trump’s supporters are starting to feel as bewildered and frustrated with the erratic US president as people on the opposite side of…
LET'S DO SOMETHING GREAT
A Mexican politician was caught plagiarizing a Frank Underwood monologue from “House of Cards”
Is it possible to plagiarize the work and ideas of a fictional character? If so, a politician in Mexico has accomplished just that. The similarities…
A MATTER OF IMPORT
China became the world’s top exporter by doing the exact opposite of what Trump wants the US to do
US president Donald Trump thinks the US is importing too much. He’s threatened to block goods from several countries—most recently Germany, which he called “bad,…
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS
A US federal court just used Donald Trump’s own tweets to block his travel ban
US president Donald Trump has learned that everything he tweets can and will be used against him in a court of law. On June 12,…
SEARCHING FOR REFUGE
Governments may be able to start tracking immigrant flows through Google searches
The continuing gush of refugees from troubled areas around the world has been catching governments around the world by surprise. In 2014, US immigration authorities…
30 VAQUITAS
Leonardo DiCaprio is stepping in to save a porpoise driven almost to extinction by bureaucracy
For two decades, the vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, has been on the verge of disappearing from Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, its only habitat. The…
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How can the free world withstand the age of Trump? Canada has this prescription
How is a world leader to tackle the global diplomacy challenge that is US president Donald Trump? The president’s zigzagging positions and volatile behavior have…
REVERSAL OF FORTUNE
The Mexican peso is a barometer of Trump’s economic threat, and right now it’s really strong
The election of Donald Trump turned the Mexican peso into a symbolic—and hypersensitive—indicator of the threat the new US president posed to the interconnected global…
PUT A BOW ON IT
Trump just handed the lawyers opposing his travel ban a big gift
US Department of Justice lawyers have spent the past four months arguing that president Donald Trump is not trying to discriminate against Muslims with his…
RAW DEAL
Trump’s zero-sum view of the world is most dangerous when applied to climate change
US president Donald Trump, who fancies himself a master negotiator, walked into the White House itching to improve what he sees as a series of…
