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 Editorials | Opinions
The French "No" Consoles Those Burnt by NAFTA
 Brigitte Morissette
The commentaries heard in favor of a "yes" to the European Constitution and the evils heralded by an eventual "no" reminded us of a familiar refrain in Mexico: an imperfect constitution is better than none at all; those sections considered dangerous or poorly negotiated can always be corrected later.more »»»
State of Mexico Elections Inspire Rancor
 Kenneth Emmond
Something's rotten in the State of Mexico. Maybe it's in the ballot boxes. It could be in the public accounts. Perhaps it can be found in the electoral board. Or, it might be all three - and then some.more »»»
Mexico's Leftist Candidate Will Campaign As Super-Moderate
 Andres Oppenheimer
Mexico City's fiery leftist mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the front-runner in the race for Mexico's 2006 presidential elections, is likely to surprise many in coming months: He will seek to portray himself as a super-moderate leftist, a la Chilean President Ricardo Lagos.more »»»
'Solutions' Don't Address Immigration Problem
 Marcela Sanchez
Whether you believe Mexican immigrants help or hurt the US, there is one truth you have to accept: Work here pays much, much better. A low-skilled Mexican worker in this country earns 5 to 6 times as much as back home, assuming he or she could find a comparable job.more »»»
Mexico's Coming Collapse
 Alan Caruba
Ignoring the financial and social impact that millions of illegal Mexican workers are having on America may well be the US government’s way of avoiding a tsunami of even more Mexicans crossing over in the wake of an economic disaster, the collapse of the Mexican economy.more »»»
Border Crisis Costly To Mexican-Americans, Too
 Hector Ayala
These days, being a Mexican-American has become a perilous thing, especially if we show an allegiance for our country. The traditional agenda would require all Latinos to think alike regarding illegal immigration.more »»»
Mexican Leader Has It All Wrong
 Merlene Davis
Lord knows I don't want any of my children considering farm labor or hotel maid service as a career choice after they graduate from college. It's not just black people who won't take those jobs. It's anyone accustomed to life in America who is trying to do better.more »»»
Mexico Threatened By Wave Of Schadenfreude
 Kenneth Emmond
Mexican politicians and businessmen of all stripes have experienced reverses, disappointments, and threats to their personal liberty so far this year. There's more than enough potential schadenfreude to go around, regardless of one's political or ethical viewpoint.more »»»
Zedillo: NAFTA Can't Solve Mexican Issues
 Bloomberg
Mexico can't rely on the North American Free Trade Agreement to spur growth and must also improve its policies and institutions, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said.more »»»
Mexico's Fox Did The Right Thing With His Apology
 Leonel Martinez
The last thing anyone wants to do when wading into the debate over immigration is make a comment that can be interpreted as racist. And yet that's exactly what happened when President Fox made a comment that was quickly perceived as racist toward blacks.more »»»
Force Mexico To Extradite
 Bob Baker
There is a country to the south of the US that has become a fugitive paradise, willingly harboring and giving sanctuary to hundreds of murderers who have fled the US after their crimes. In the past decade, any killers who make it across the border to Mexico are assured of not facing the criminal justice system in the US.more »»»
Greenbacks and 'Wetbacks': Mexico's Northern Strategy
 Robert Klein Engler
Many Americans do not understand about illegal immigrants, especially illegal immigrants from Mexico. They may read in the newspaper about the dangers illegal immigrants face, but they do not read about the cultural baggage these immigrants bring, nor do they know what’s happening in Mexico that makes illegal immigrants want to risk these dangers.more »»»
Interesting Times Without The Curse
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
"May you live in interesting times" is an ancient Chinese curse. But I suspect the phrase has seen more use as a lead for opinion columns than it ever did in China. Still, all of us should be allowed to give the cliche a shot once in a lifetime. I'm going to use my bullet now.more »»»
Kyl: Mexico Could Do More To Discourage Illegal Immigration
 Associated Press
Mexico has shown it can do more to keep its citizens from migrating illegally into the US but doesn't have the will to sustain it, said an Arizona lawmaker who wants Congress to change immigration policies.more »»»
The Greediest Generation
 Nicholas D. Kristof
As a baby boomer myself, I can be blunt: We boomers won't be remembered as the "Greatest Generation." Rather, we'll be scorned as the "Greediest Generation." Our influence has been huge. When boomer blood raged with hormones, we staged the sexual revolution and popularized the Pill. With those hormones fading, we've popularized Viagra. more »»»
Wakeup World, A Left-Winger Is Running In Mexico
 Nancy Conroy
For those of you who are not up to speed about the upcoming Mexican presidential elections, it is time to wake up and realize what is unfolding. An extreme leftwing candidate is on the rise, Lopez Obrador, and he is scaring the bejesus out of the Establishment.more »»»
The Left: Cancun Reflections And U.S. Income Disparity Growth
 Richard Elrick
My recently concluded family vacation to Cancun, Mexico was a wonderful reminder of how fortunate we all are to be living in the US. But it also showed how imperative it is for our country not to follow in Mexico’s footsteps by allowing our income disparity gap to continue to grow.more »»»
Political Indignation In Mexico Could Make A Woman President
 Carlos Luken
Marta Sahagun, Mexico’s first lady and a member of the PAN, has taken herself out of the presidential candidate race supposedly to seek her party’s 2006 nomination to run for mayor of Mexico City. Thus Fox’s Secretary of Social Development, Josefina Vazquez Mota, seems to be the likely PAN possibility.more »»»
A Pope Is a Pope Is a Pope
 Lakshmi Chaudhry
Many of the same people who were rightly offended by the orgiastic news coverage that followed John Paul II's death are the ones now devoting their energies to slamming his predecessor - a choice that unfortunately only reaffirms the already inflated assumptions of the importance of the papacy.more »»»
Good Minds Think Alike
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Is it really news that Americans and Mexicans each think the other is getting the better deal with NAFTA? Any bilateral agreement would be in trouble if both sides agreed on the one getting shafted.more »»»
The Desafuero of Political Reason
 Kenneth Emmond
The political class from the National Action Party (PAN) and the Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) joined forces to launch a preventive war, cloaked in the rhetoric of the Rule of Law, to silence a potential one-man weapon of mass destruction who threatened their interests — to wit, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.more »»»
Death Penalty Turnaround
 David Kaczynski
New York is poised to make history, becoming the first state to effectively do away with the death penalty since capital punishment returned to the criminal justice system in the mid-1970s. The reasons for this shift in attitude are myriad.more »»»
Bringing Change Across the Border
 Brenda Gazzar & Mason Stockstill
The footprints of immigrant communities are seen in the surge of foreign-language media, in accommodations made in the educational system and in a medley of industries catering specifically to the immigrant market.more »»»
PAN Faces Problems In 2006
 José Carreño
President Vicente Fox's National Action Party (PAN) faces a distinct disadvantage in the 2006 elections, since the left has a more charismatic candidate, and the nation's largest party has a better organized base,more »»»
If Lopez Obrador Were to Become President
 Kenneth Emmond
What might happen if the worst fears of President Vicente Fox, Santiago Creel, Roberto Madrazo, and other members of the Political Class were realized, and Mexico City's mayor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, were to be elected president of Mexico?more »»»
Mahatma's Forgotten March
 J. Sri Raman
It is a tragedy that the Dandi March of Mahatma Gandhi is only a dim national memory today, and a farce that many of those celebrating the 75th anniversary of the event cannot be further from an awareness of its spirit and significance.more »»»
Border Skirmishes Arise in Arizona
 Felipe Maya
Who said Americans aren't arrogant? Sure, we are. For one, we're the fattest people in the world; we get as much of anything as we want, and we just throw away the excess. But now, some of us are doing more to prove this point, and it involves a very hot topic.more »»»
Is George W. Bush Right?
 Hubert Védrine
When George W. Bush presented his "Greater Middle-East" project at the beginning of 2004, Europe did not conceal its skepticism. But whether right or wrong, the United States has the power to create faits accomplis.more »»»
A Blow to the Rule of Law
 New York Times
If you are in a "persistent vegetative state" and there is a dispute about whether to keep you alive, your case will probably go no further than state court - unless you are Terri Schiavo, whose parents received a personal right to sue in federal court from President Bush.more »»»
Mission NOT Accomplished
 William Rivers Pitt
Two years ago, on the 2nd of May 2003, George W. Bush donned a flight outfit and landed dramatically on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. He stood before the assembled personnel, quoted Scripture, and declared the war in Iraq to be all but over beneath a banner that proclaimed MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.more »»»
A Moment in Mexico
 Clarence Chua Chung Ren
Mexican hostility towards the US is legendary, given that half of their original territories were forcefully incorporated into the Stars and Stripes, prompting former Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz to declare: Poor Mexico! So far from God, and so close to the United States.more »»»
The Ugly American Bank
 Paul Krugman
You can say this about Paul Wolfowitz's qualifications to lead the World Bank: He has been closely associated with America's largest foreign aid and economic development project since the Marshall Plan. I'm talking, of course, about reconstruction in Iraq.more »»»
Running on Empty
 Robert Bryce
The leading energy analysts who foretold Enron's demise have an alarming new claim: The world's major oil companies are almost tapped out.more »»»
Mexico Stubbornly Denies Its Dark Past
 Denise Dresser
While many countries seek to uncover the truth about their history, Mexico seems intent on burying it. Although more than 20 countries have established effective mechanisms for dealing with their troubled pasts, Mexico’s isn’t working.more »»»
Missile Counter-Attack
 Lloyd Axworthy
University of Winnipeg president Lloyd Axworthy fires back at U.S. - and Canadian - critics of our BMD decision in An Open Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.more »»»
God and Evolution
 Nicholas D. Kristof
Modern science is turning up a possible reason why the religious right is flourishing and secular liberals aren't: instinct. It turns out that our DNA may predispose humans toward religious faith.more »»»
The Return of the Draft
 Tim Dickinson
Uncle Sam wants you. He needs you. He'll bribe you to sign up. He'll strong-arm you to re-enlist. And if that's not enough, he's got a plan to draft you.more »»»
The Threat to Bush
 Sidney Blumenthal
Fear made George W. Bush's presidency, gave him his "mission" and allowed him to remain in office. Now, the fear the president invoked to marshal support for the Iraq war is failing him in his war on the New Deal.more »»»
Train Wreck of an Election
 James Carroll
Iraq is a train wreck. On all sides of Operation Iraqi Freedom, there is wreckage. There are the dead, the maimed, the displaced - who will be the ghosts of this war for the rest of their days. All for what?more »»»
Another World Is Possible
 Marjorie Cohn
The Fifth Annual World Social Forum (WSF) held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from January 26-31 garnered almost no media coverage in the United States, but drew 155,000 activists from 135 countries, who assembled to challenge Bush's agenda.more »»»
Is the World Safer Now?
 The Independent U.K.
As war ended, our correspondents examined key questions about Iraq's future. With the elections looming, the updated answers highlight the global impact of the conflict.more »»»
Love for Sale
 Maureen Dowd
I'm herewith resigning as a member of the liberal media elite. I'm joining up with the conservative media elite. They get paid better.more »»»
How to Read a Column
 William Safire
Having announced my retirement, at last I am at liberty to vouchsafe to you the dozen rules in reading a political column. Of course it's unfair to reveal the Code. But punditry is as vibrant as political life itself, and as J.F.K. said, "life is unfair."more »»»
The Price of Homophobia
 New York Times
Don't ask, don't tell - just scream in frustration: it turns out that 20 of the Arabic speakers so vitally needed by the US have been thrown out of the military since 1998 because they were found to be gay.more »»»
More Than a Dreamer
 Paul Rockwell
Every year, millions of Americans pay tribute to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King. We often forget, however, that King was the object of derision when he was alive.more »»»
Passionate Opposition
 Eleanor Clift
Despite another loss in 2004, progressive Democrats like Ted Kennedy remain optimistic, as the GOP fractures over Social Security reform and President Bush's ambitious domestic agenda.more »»»
Casino Gambling In Mexico — Don’t Bet On It
 Carlos Luken
The issue of legalization of casino gambling in Mexico periodically arises, only to lose momentum with time, to say the least it has been an on and off affair.more »»»
The Bush Zone (with apologies to Rod Serling)
 John Cory
Meet Mr. and Mrs. America, faithful believers in the one true nation. They arise each morning and stand before the mirror reciting their daily mantra: "It's a grand old flag! Leader of the free world! We're no. 1!"more »»»
Inaugural Excess - This is the Wrong Time for a Lavish Celebration
 Bernard Ries
The US Presidential Inauguration Committee intends to forge ahead with its resplendent plans for the second Bush inaugural - at the risk of sounding like a Grand Old Party Pooper, I'm not thrilled.more »»»
Alberto Gonzales Has Blood on His Hands
 The Minneapolis Star Tribune
When the White House announced in November that Attorney General John Ashcroft would depart and be replaced by presidential counsel Alberto Gonzales, it was a good news-bad news sort of day.more »»»
Media Whites Out Vote Fraud
 David Swanson
There is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. That will be news to anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media.more »»»
Sleaze in the US Capitol Coming to Light as Senate and Justice Department Investigators Follow Leads
 New York Times
The gulling of the native Indian casino tribes is a blot on the US Congress in Washington and the lobbying industry that cries out for a thorough public vetting.more »»»
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