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Kamala Harris was defeated, economists tell us, by rising prices. Simply put, the vice president could not overcome working-class voters’ anger over...
Not a single longshoreman was hired at ports on the East Coast from 1964 to 1977. A technological revolution was underway, replacing workers who...
Last December, the rumor running through the Mexican political class was that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wanted to throw the U.S....
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...
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...
Don’t blame Harris for the border — that’s a bipartisan failure. Barbed wire rests on the top of border fencing between the United...
Washington should not count on its current policies holding up. Demonstrators in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, protest against Nicolás Maduro 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...
Today’s aspiring autocrats are mobilizing voters to dismantle checks and balances. President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister...
Is abuse, corruption and violence still inherent in multinational capitalism? A mule-drawn cart hauls bananas on the United Fruit Company...
Unfortunately, the United States — with a concerned eye on China — seems itching to start one. A Chinese container ship passes through the...
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...
Soon, we will all be competing to attract foreign workers. Migrants reach for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two...
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s promises of changing his country have come up short. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives a...
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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...
There’s a case to be made that 3 percent inflation might be a better target. (Getty Images/iStock) Listen 6 min ...
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, in San Juan Opico on Nov. 23, 2022. (Marvin Recinos/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 7 min ...
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....
An advertisement alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 18. (Markus Schreiber/AP) Listen 5 min ...
President Biden speaks to striking autoworkers on a picket line in Van Buren Township, Mich., in September. (Evan Vucci/AP) Listen 5...
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Fort Washington last March....
Opinion Here’s which states could benefit most from migrant labor By Eduardo Porter and Youyou Zhou February 14,...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks about the U.S.-Mexico border at the Capitol on Wednesday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) Listen...
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 ...
A group of migrants negotiate razor wire as they cross the Rio Grande near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in September. (Michael Robinson Chávez/The...
Land deforested in 2020 near Novo Progresso, Brazil. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story...
People arrested by police for having alleged links to gangs in Soyapango, El Salvador, in August 2022. (Salvador Melendez/AP) Listen 5...
Sultan Al Jaber, center, CEO of the United Arab Emirates' state oil company, at the 2023 U.N. climate conference in Dubai. (Ali...
President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in September 1973. (AFP/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Share...