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Eduardo Porter

Eduardo Porter

The New York Times

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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 over...

19.11.2024 10

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

12.11.2024 10

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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 5

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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 10

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Corporations are not destroying America

25.09.2024 60

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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 7

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Zero-sum thinking is destroying America

Poker is a zero-sum game. So are Olympic sports. Somebody must tell the United States’ leaders that economic and social progress are not. The...

04.09.2024 60

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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...

26.08.2024 40

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Washington is rightly ripping up Silicon Valley’s carte blanche

15.08.2024 20

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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...

06.08.2024 60

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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 5

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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...

30.07.2024 7

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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...

23.07.2024 10

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Life and death in a banana civilization

Is abuse, corruption and violence still inherent in multinational capitalism? A mule-drawn cart hauls bananas on the United Fruit Company...

01.07.2024 10

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Latin America is not interested in another Cold War

Unfortunately, the United States — with a concerned eye on China — seems itching to start one. A Chinese container ship passes through the...

20.06.2024 20

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How could a city built on a lake run out of water? Look at Mexico City.

If nature insists on flooding, we flush the water away. Then we get thirsty. A worker prepares a hose for free water distribution in the...

11.06.2024 10

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The global immigrant shortage is almost here

Soon, we will all be competing to attract foreign workers. Migrants reach for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two...

05.06.2024 10

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The real transformation Mexico needs

Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s promises of changing his country have come up short. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives a...

28.05.2024 10

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How America tried and failed to stay White

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15.05.2024 50

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To save the right to asylum, we must reimagine it

We have to reform policies — but also change the way we think about migration as a whole. A tent belonging to an asylum seeker is seen...

09.05.2024 30

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Maybe it’s time for the Fed to start obfuscating a little bit

There’s a case to be made that 3 percent inflation might be a better target. (Getty Images/iStock) Listen 6 min ...

03.05.2024 60

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Why can’t the left deal with crime?

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, in San Juan Opico on Nov. 23, 2022. (Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 7 min ...

02.04.2024 40

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Will Mexico’s president change the course of U.S. elections?

Migrants who entered the United States from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2023 in Eagle Pass, Texas....

21.03.2024 30

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AI doesn’t have to destroy jobs. It can empower the working class.

An advertisement alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18. (Markus Schreiber/AP) Listen 5 min ...

19.03.2024 20

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Despite Biden’s efforts, working-class voters still don’t trust Democrats

President Biden speaks to striking autoworkers on a picket line in Van Buren Township, Mich., in September. (Evan Vucci/AP) Listen 5...

11.03.2024 60

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Brazil sidelined Bolsonaro. What can America do about Trump?

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Fort Washington last March....

19.02.2024 20

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Here’s which states could benefit most from migrant labor

Opinion Here’s which states could benefit most from migrant labor By Eduardo Porter and  Youyou Zhou February 14,...

14.02.2024 20

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The problem with social media is that it exists at all

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08.02.2024 10

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Republicans’ immigration bill is not serious legislation

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks about the U.S.-Mexico border at the Capitol on Wednesday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Listen...

02.02.2024 9

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America’s social ills are not simply due to inequality and despair

An unhoused person's tent on a bridge overlooking the 101 Freeway in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 2023. (Jae C. Hong/AP) Listen 7 min ...

25.01.2024 10

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Forget about securing the border. It won’t work.

A group of migrants negotiate razor wire as they cross the Rio Grande near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in September. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The...

18.01.2024 40

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Who will pay to save the Amazon?

Land deforested in 2020 near Novo Progresso, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story...

11.01.2024 10

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An iron-fisted war on crime in Latin America will fail

People arrested by police for having alleged links to gangs in Soyapango, El Salvador, in August 2022. (Salvador Melendez/AP) Listen 5...

04.01.2024 5

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Why guilt shouldn’t be the basis for climate change policy

15.12.2023 10

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Can humanity count on OPEC to phase out fossil fuels?

Sultan Al Jaber, center, CEO of the United Arab Emirates' state oil company, at the 2023 U.N. climate conference in Dubai. (Ali...

08.12.2023 8

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The Global South hasn’t forgotten Kissinger

President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in September 1973. (AFP/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Share...

03.12.2023 10

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