Decades of short-sighted, inhumane U.S. policies have brought a child refugee crisis to America’s door.
Blowback on the Border: America’s Child Refugee Crisis
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Let Colombia End Its Civil War
After half a century, Colombia may put an end to its conflict—if the U.S. will allow it.
Suing for Peace in Costa Rica
Costa Rican lawyer Roberto Zamora sued his government for supporting the Bush administration’s illegal war in Iraq—and won.
The Afghan Drug War after 2014
If costly drug war strategies in Afghanistan have been unsuccessful even with a strong U.S. military presence, they won’t stand a chance after the U.S. withdraws.
El Chapo Capture: What Happens When the Kingpin Falls?
U.S. officials are propping up the capture of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman as a major drug war victory. They’re wrong.
SOTU: Obama Grades His Foreign Policy
Former law professor Barack Obama went into surprising depth on issues of war and peace during his fifth State of the Union address. Here’s how he should grade himself.
Anatomy of Election Fraud: Stealing the 2013 Honduran Election in Five Simple Steps
Through vote buying and brute violence, supporters of the 2009 coup in Honduras may have stolen the 2013 election.
At the UN, a Latin American Rebellion
Without a doubt, the 68th UN General Assembly will be remembered as a watershed. Nations reached an agreement on control of chemical weapons that could avoid a global war in Syria. The volatile stalemate on the Iran nuclear program came a step closer to diplomacy....
Beyond Drug Trafficking: Toward Genuine Security in the Caribbean
Drug trafficking is, by many accounts, a major security challenge in the Caribbean region. Due in part to aggressive counter-drug trafficking operations in Central America, drug traffickers based in Mexico and Colombia increasingly use the Caribbean as an alternative...
NAFTA at 20: The New Spin
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which went into effect on January 1, 1994, was touted as the cure for Mexico’s economic “backwardness.” Promoters argued that the trilateral trade agreement would dig Mexico out of its economic rut and modernize it along the lines of its mighty neighbor, the United States. Fat chance.