Amy Pope

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A US Border Patrol agent detains migrants at the border in El Paso, Texas. Photo: Getty Images.

MundoAmérica del NorteMundoAmérica Latina y Caribe,

Donald Trump’s latest border security play – which slashes the State Department’s foreign assistance to three vulnerable Central American countries at the same time as he fixates on building a wall – won’t fix illegal migration. Worse, it siphons away money from solutions that will actually improve US border security.

It has been well documented that the answer to southwest border migration is not building a wall, it’s first improving the US immigration system. The system is badly broken, ill-equipped to manage the flows of people seeking to work, live and seek refuge in the United States. Both presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama tried – and failed – to get reforming legislation over the finish line, thwarted by partisan bickering.…  Seguir leyendo »

US women lawmakers wore white to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address in the House of Representatives in solidarity with the women's suffragette movement. Photo: Getty Images.

MundoAmérica del Norte,

It has been almost 100 years since women in the United States gained the right to vote but the US still is yet to have a woman elected as president. What do you think needs to change for there to be the first woman elected to the White House?

Amy Pope: I think it’s coming soon. In the last election, the woman candidate won a majority of the votes of the popular vote. Now, because of the way the US system works, she didn’t win a majority of the electoral college, which is what she would have needed to become president.…  Seguir leyendo »

Early voting in Norwalk, California. Photo: Getty Images.

MundoAmérica del Norte,
Americans are divided – but no longer complacent

Leslie Vinjamuri

The 2018 US midterm elections were a referendum on President Trump and in the aftermath, only one truth is crystal clear. America is divided. Americans have voted against Trump, and Americans have voted for Trump.

This division is likely to infect US politics for the next two years. Some of this division will now be given actual political expression in Congress.  But it will also be played out across America.

Two areas stand out. One is trade. Americans may well experience a deepening trade war and suffer its costs very differently.…  Seguir leyendo »