Opinion | Criminalizing Humanitarian Assistance
Immigration politics are playing themselves out in the US in many disturbing ways, not the least of which is the...
Joy Olson
Opinion | Militarization in the Age of Authoritarianism
Militarization is a term that I often avoid. It comes with baggage from the 1970s and 80s. Nonetheless, I’m re-engaging...
Opinion | Authoritarianism and El Salvador
Authoritarianism - obedience to authority at the expense of freedom - is as bad as it sounds, and it is...
Opinion | Who Do We Treat Like Lesser Humans
In the US today, who do we treat like less than human? It is an offensive yet important question, because...
Opinion | What a difference a day makes in Guatemala
Hope is an amazing thing. You don’t even know that it is missing until suddenly you have it. On June...
Opinion | Immigration Pretzel
Attempting to address undocumented migration and the southern border, the US has contorted immigration policy into a pretzel. This has...
Opinion | Cartels and Border Politics – Part 2 in a Series
The US has a drug crisis. This is not an overstatement. Understanding the international components of the fentanyl crisis are...
Opinion – Cartel – What’s in a Name?
“Why can we name a lot of Mexican drug cartels, but not any cartels in the US?” A friend, who...
Opinion | Mexico’s Determinate Role in US Immigration Policy
After the recent trinational meeting between the US, Mexico, and Canada, a US government official emphasized that this was a...
Opinion | Doña Ena Becerra – True Influence
In 2022 we lost someone of true influence, Ena Esperanza Becerra S. You don’t know her, but everyone called her...
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