April 15, 2025
Politics

The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Analysis The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous But other democracies provide a roadmap for courts to prevail over attacks from the executive branch. March 26, 2025, 11:04 AM Comment icon View Comments ( 1 ) By Andrew O’Donohue , a political scientist at Harvard

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Trump’s Deportation Machine Takes Shape

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Analysis Trump’s Deportation Machine Takes Shape The White House is using client states to carry out illegal and unconstitutional expulsions. By Jonathan M. Katz , the author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. A U.S.

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Will Milei’s Charm Offensive Work on Trump?

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Analysis Will Milei’s Charm Offensive Work on Trump? The Argentine leader left Washington empty-handed, but geopolitics could still tilt in his favor. By David Lepeska , an award-winning, Buenos Aires-based journalist who has reported from more than a dozen countries and is the author of

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Migration Flows Shift South as Trump Hardens Border

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Latin America Brief A one-stop weekly digest of politics, economics, technology, and culture in Latin America. Delivered Friday. Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and to receive email correspondence from us. You may opt out

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The Novels We’re Reading in March

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Books The Novels We’re Reading in March From a killing in the West Bank to horror in a postapocalyptic convent. March 7, 2025, 2:20 PM Comment icon View Comments ( 0 ) By Chloe Hadavas , a senior editor at Foreign Policy , and Allison

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Latin America Shows Regional Unity at the OAS

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Analysis Latin America Shows Regional Unity at the OAS Amid tariffs and aid cuts, the region displayed rare unity at the OAS this week. Osborn-Catherine-foreign-policy-columnist15 Catherine Osborn By Catherine Osborn , the writer of Foreign Policy ’s weekly Latin America Brief. Suriname’s minister of foreign

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Can Latin America Find Consensus in the Age of Trump?

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Latin America Brief A one-stop weekly digest of politics, economics, technology, and culture in Latin America. Delivered Friday. Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and to receive email correspondence from us. You may opt out

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Who Will Protect the Earth’s Defenders?

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Analysis Who Will Protect the Earth’s Defenders? In Colombia, environmental activists are under attack despite the president’s green promises. By Mie Hoejris Dahl , a Danish freelance journalist based in Mexico City. Three activists link arms and are shown mid-speech. Indigenous activists take part in

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How Trump Could Still Get Venezuela Right This Time Around

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. How Trump Could Still Get Venezuela Right This Time Around A strategy of targeted engagement, rather than returning to maximum pressure, could foster a genuine democratic transition. By Francisco Rodríguez , Rice Family Professor of

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Will Trump Try to Tip the Scales in Latin America?

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Analysis Will Trump Try to Tip the Scales in Latin America? Partisan intervention in any of the region’s many elections this year could threaten decades of democratic gains. By Christopher Sabatini , the senior research fellow for Latin America at Chatham House. A scale weighs

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