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The Brutal Cycle of US Immigration Policy

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April 16, 2024

The double movement of Central and North American migration.

In Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here, Jonathan Blitzer examines how North and Central American migration moves in two directions.

Dr. Juan Romagoza at La Clinica del Pueblo in 1998.

(Photo by Dayna Smith / Getty)

Eddie Anzora arrived in El Salvador, the country of his birth, on the eve of its

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Welcome to the AI election – POLITICO

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This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide.

Callum Hood has the power to undermine any election with a few keystrokes from his Boston apartment.

Hood, a British researcher, fired up some of the latest artificial intelligence tools made by OpenAI and Midjourney, another AI startup. Within seconds of him typing in a few prompts — “create a realistic photo of voter ballots in a dumpster”; “a photo of long

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Macron’s explosive home front in the Gaza war

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PARIS  — In the days after Hamas struck Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron made a national address vowing his “unreserved solidarity” with Israel. 

A month later, he swerved to redress the balance, organizing a conference to support Gaza, joining calls for a cease-fire. In the days and months following Israel’s ground operation and airstrikes, Macron has amped up his support for Gaza, organizing aid airdrops with Jordan and even dispatching a helicopter carrier turned hospital ship to treat a trickle … Read more

How Did Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy Go So Off Course?

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April 9, 2024

How did Joe Biden’s foreign policy go so off course?

The president set out to chart a more pacific and humane foreign policy after the Trump years but at some point he and his team of advisers lost the plot.

Joe Biden disembarking from Air Force One this January. (Kent Nishimura / Getty)

Anyone who writes about current events knows how cruel

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WHO do you think you are? MPs fear ‘unelected’ UN officials could dictate Britain’s lockdown policy in future pandemics under controversial new treaty

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World Health Organization (WHO) chiefs could be given power over Britain’s future pandemic policies, MPs fear.

Under plans for a new global pandemic treaty, the UN agency is considering making dozens of amendments to its legally-binding rulebook. 

Critics worry member nations might be made to comply with advice in future health crises, such as enforcing lockdowns or vaccine passports.

A group of Conservative MPs have now warned the UK risks ‘signing away’ its powers to ‘unelected’ WHO bosses, complaining about

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Boston’s Mayor Makes Friends—and Enemies—with Her Focus on Housing

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Many voters had seen Wu as the leftmost candidate, but being mayor has complicated this perception. She has declined to call for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza, for example, despite frequent protests. Last year, she increased funding for a gang database that she had previously vowed to dismantle and called “discriminatory.” The decision came after observing reforms under a new police commissioner and “spending time with people in different police units,” she told me. A few months later,

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The GOP Has Crossed An Ominous Threshold on Foreign Policy

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The long decline of the Republican Party’s internationalist wing may have reached a tipping point.

Since Donald Trump emerged as the GOP’s dominant figure in 2016, he has championed an isolationist and nationalist agenda that is dubious of international alliances, scornful of free trade, and hostile to not only illegal but also legal immigration. His four years in the White House marked a shift in the party’s internal balance of power away from the internationalist perspective that had dominated every

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The ‘dirty dozen’ of Davos – POLITICO

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It’s that time of year again: Leaders, business titans, philanthropists and celebs descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos to discuss the fate of the world and do deals/shots with the global elite at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

This year’s theme: “Rebuilding trust.” Prescient, given the dumpster fire the world seems to be turning into lately, both literally (climate change) and figuratively (where to

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Taiwan at election crossroads as war threat looms – POLITICO

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This story was originally published in German by WELT, a sister publication of POLITICO in the Axel Springer Group.

Nate Lin wants to be prepared for war. 

On a Saturday morning in November, Lin, a 35-year-old Taiwanese man, practices how to apply a tourniquet to his right arm. In this fictive scenario, he’s been shot and is in danger of bleeding to death.

“It has to be pulled tighter to stop the bleeding,” warns the instructor.

It’s not the kind

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