Ana Campoy

In Argentina he’s the most influential journalist in the land, but in the English-speaking world, Jorge Lanata was a virtual unknown when his interview with Woody Allen hit the airwaves Sunday night. During their sit-down, the embattled American director and actor—accused of sexually abusing his adoptive daughter Dylan some 25 years ago—declared himself a “poster child” for the #metoo movement and a staunch ally of women actors in general. Allen’s claims were met with near-universal skepticism.

The steel and aluminum tariffs Donald Trump implemented this week left economists, politicians, and chief executives around the world aghast and angry. In the words of US Republican senator Bob Sasse, the taxes are just plain “dumb”—at least, economically speaking.

Mexico and Canada warned Donald Trump that letting political slogans dictate trade policy is dangerous economically. But their own responses to the steel and aluminum tariffs going into effect today has been political as well: Shortly after Trump announced the tariffs, Canada and Mexico announced their own politically-targeted taxes for US exports.

Much has been written, especially since the 2016 US election, about the gaping divide between rural and urban America—politically, culturally, and economically.

The Trump administration is reportedly looking into holding undocumented immigrant children in military facilities.

Venezuelans have been buffeted by hyperinflation and widespread hunger. The reelection of president Nicolás Maduro on Sunday won’t change that.

As many as 10 people, most of them students, were shot to death today at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. It is the 17th school shooting since a deadly attack on Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day.

Donald Trump held a public bashing session of California’s sanctuary policies on Wednesday.

The Trump administration has cited a variety of reasons to justify its drive to stop illegal immigration. The latest, as explained by White House chief of staff John Kelly in an interview last week: The immigrants who are coming to the US these days are too uneducated and poor to successfully integrate into society.

The Trump administration said this week it’s prosecuting every immigrant caught entering the US illegally, a policy that will likely result in the separation of children from their parents while their legal cases unfurl.

Telecom giant AT&T is trying to untangle itself from Michael Cohen’s growing legal troubles.

Donald Trump has been extremely effective at enforcing immigration laws—but only in some parts of the US.

Donald Trump has turned international trade into a sit-on-the-edge-your-seat affair. On Monday, he kept US allies guessing on what he would do on steel tariffs until the very last moment.

The Trump administration is bracing for the arrival to the US of a caravan of immigrants that has been traveling through Mexico over the past month.

Trump administration officials have said any person in the US illegally should look over their shoulder. But data show the risk is greater for immigrants who have been in the US for longer—at least when it comes to being prosecuted in immigration court.

The best way to sort out the tricky legal issues around Donald Trump’s travel ban might be through hypotheticals.

One unintended consequence of Donald Trump’s protectionist impulses is that the dry details of trade policy history are now trendy. So much so that the once obscure Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 has suddenly become a headline-grabbing topic in publications ranging from NPR to Breitbart.

Students across the US are again abandoning their classrooms Friday (April 20) to protest gun violence as part of the National School Walkout.

The Democratic party is suing Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign over what they are calling a “brazen attack on American Democracy.”

Cuba just got a new president. In a momentous change for the island, for the first time in nearly 60 years, its leader’s last name isn’t Castro.

Former first lady Barbara Bush, a source of guidance and love to both her husband and son during their White House stints, according to friends, has died at age 92, Her passing was announced on Twitter by a family spokesman.

America has become a less welcoming place for refugees under Donald Trump.

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump called the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership “a disaster” and “a rape to our country.” As a newly minted president, he pulled the US out of the 12-nation trade deal, proclaiming the move was “a great thing for the American worker.”

John Boehner rejected marijuana legalization when he was the speaker of the US House of Representatives. Today, he is a pot advocate.