On Feb. 1, 2025, the White House announced a new round of tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China, aimed at addressing the flow of illicit drugs and illegal immigrants, unfair trade practices, and the need to protect American…
Jimmy Carter’s funeral was Thursday, so you’d figure that might be one of the items in this week’s 5QT. It isn’t. Melissa summed up those proceedings exceedingly well, and I don’t have much of anything to add. Besides, I was…
In the first six months of 2024, there has been a staggering 94 percent decrease in fentanyl seizures, dropping from 5,135 pounds last year to 286 pounds. This alarming drop is a deliberate decision that puts thousands of American lives…
During the Constitution ratification debates between the Federalists (who supported ratification) and the Anti-Federalists (who opposed it), one of the most strident areas of disagreement was the extent to which the proposed position of president of the United States was…
Yesterday, Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman elected president of Mexico. The 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City and climate scientist will replace her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on Oct. 1. Sheinbaum’s victory was marred by the violence…
Last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration released a report that said that the two worst Mexican drug cartels are operating in all fifty states and are fighting each other for control of the drug trade in several U.S. cities. The…
The following chapter was cut from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s recently released autobiography, No Going Back. The chinook’s rotors pumped a distant heartbeat into the South Dakota night. “The cartel. They found me.” I flapped away the bed sheets…
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known on the street as AMLO, took a strident tone during his sit down with CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. He threatened to flood the U.S. border with even more migrants if the U.S….
Amid the myriad challenges that confront us in the coming months, it’s easy to simply pigeonhole African issues under the heading of: “We’ll get around to it, someday, maybe.” That, as I’ve noted previously in writing about Africa, has been…
