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Eduardo Porter

Eduardo Porter

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Beneath the birthright citizenship fight lurks an old fixation

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Trump is popular abroad. But will his foreign policy doom humanity?

29.01.2025 20

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To save the planet, stop eating free-range beef

14.01.2025 7

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Why did Bidenomics fail to deliver at the polls?

So many things about the strategy made so much sense. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan at the dawn of Joe Biden’s presidency, which prevented...

26.12.2024 20

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Abandoning globalization is a sure path to immiseration

17.12.2024 30

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Why Mexico is exquisitely vulnerable to Trump

Mexico hopes it dodged a bullet. Two days after he threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico unless it stopped migrants and fentanyl from...

07.12.2024 20

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Trump can’t bully the world out of doing business with China

Campaigning for Argentina’s presidency last year, libertarian firebrand Javier Milei called Chinese President Xi Jinping a “murderer.” He vowed...

26.11.2024 5

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There’s something scarier than rising costs behind Trump’s victory

Kamala Harris was defeated, economists tell us, by rising prices. Simply put, the vice president could not overcome working-class voters’ anger...

19.11.2024 3

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Americans ordered up Donald Trump. The world will foot the bill.

12.11.2024 3

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Yes, America can fail

06.11.2024 30

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A Trump victory would make America poor again

23.10.2024 400

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Dockworkers’ fight against automation is doomed. But all is not lost.

Not a single longshoreman was hired at ports on the East Coast from 1964 to 1977. A technological revolution was underway, replacing workers who...

15.10.2024 20

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Mexico is facing an emergency. Washington must help.

09.10.2024 3

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Whom does Mexico favor in November?

Last December, the rumor running through the Mexican political class was that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wanted to throw the U.S....

01.10.2024 4

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Corporations are not destroying America

25.09.2024 50

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After Trump and Biden, a path toward re-globalization

19.09.2024 10

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Can Mexico’s democracy survive López Obrador’s judicial reforms?

10.09.2024 1

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Trump’s deportation plan would be nearly impossible to implement

But if he wins another term as president, he’ll try to put it in place anyway. Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States walk along the border...

26.08.2024 20

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Washington is rightly ripping up Silicon Valley’s carte blanche

15.08.2024 10

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Harris’s border portfolio was irrelevant to America’s immigration challenges

Don’t blame Harris for the border — that’s a bipartisan failure. Barbed wire rests on the top of border fencing between the United States and...

06.08.2024 50

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The world isn’t ready for the coming surge of Venezuelan migrants

Washington should not count on its current policies holding up. Demonstrators in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, protest against Nicolás Maduro on...

01.08.2024 2

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You can capture the kingpin, but the game will go on

Why arresting cartel bosses will do little to end the drug war. Media personnel stand at Dona Ana County private airport, where a plane believed to...

30.07.2024 2

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How do you save democracy? By rebuilding trust with voters.

Today’s aspiring autocrats are mobilizing voters to dismantle checks and balances. President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor...

23.07.2024 6

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