Immigration Articles

Battlefield: El Paso

Obama is planning to give illegal immigrants a fairer shake. But our flood of illegals, mostly from Mexico, is one of our own making. A more laissez-faire attitude is key.

Borderline Insanity

Compassion and national security often conflict. President Bush's immigration policy, by seeking both, delivers neither.

Migration and the Dynamics of Empire

Do all roads lead to the new (American) Rome? The imperial task has always been affected by the movement of peoples. It still is.

End of an Affair?

A tale of Mexican-American romance and disappointment, with proposals preferred to save a friendship.

Paradise Denied: The State Department, the Caribbean, and the Jews of Europe

Of all the remarks philosophers have made about history, few are as simple or powerful as Hegel's comment that history is a butcher's block. It is the blood of innocents that flows most freely from that block, their cries muffled by those who shou

Australia and Asia: Espresso Democracy in a Satay Region

In the last fifty-five years Australia's move away from Britain has been persistent but harmonious.

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May 26, 2012