SAN YSIDRO, CALIFORNIA — When retired Lieutenant Sean Murphy patrolled the dry brush California hills outside San Ysidro, on the north side of the U.S.-Mexico border, there was no towering wall. The “barrier” that existed barely cast a shadow. “It was a wooden post here, and a wooden post there, and some barbed wire,” Murphy said. […]
Mexico’s president has cancelled a planned meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, deepening the rift between the two countries over Trump’s announced border wall. President Enrique Pena Nieto announced on Twitter that he would not attend Tuesday’s planned visit at the White House. Esta mañana hemos informado a la Casa Blanca que no asistiré a […]
Native American activists and environmentalists say they’ll fight President Donald Trump, who Tuesday signed executive orders which allow the construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access (DAPL) oil pipelines stalled by President Barack Obama in 2015. “These actions by President Trump are insane and extreme, and nothing short of attacks on our ancestral […]
In an unfortunate turn of events, the United States has been listed in the Democracy Index as a “Flawed Democracy” by the analyst division of The Economist Group, the sister company to the newspaper, The Economist. According to the London-based group’s website, the Economist Intelligence Unit downgraded the U.S. because of the “further erosion of trust in […]