The glories of Mexican dentistry
This is part of Reason‘s 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. I crossed the U.S./Mexico border six times in a month in 2018, an…
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Biden’s border order gets bipartisan disapproval
In April, Axios reported that President Joe Biden was planning “to issue an executive order to dramatically limit the number of asylum-seekers who can cross the southern border” in an attempt to…
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Partisan border wars
In this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman scrutinize President Joe Biden’s executive order updating asylum restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border…
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Ukraine vows more self-reliance as war enters third year
Ukrainians have questions On the anniversary of Putin’s aggression, however, uncertainty and irritation were undisguised in Kyiv. Ukrainians wanted to know why Western sanctions on Russia are not…
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Former Finland PM Alexander Stubb wins presidential election
After attending school in Finland and later the U.S., Belgium and the U.K., Stubb entered politics in 2004 as a member of the European Parliament. He hit the Finnish…
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In Northern Ireland, ‘a Protestant state’ finally has a Catholic leader
Demands and priorities Britain is providing the executive an extra £3.3 billion to start patching holes in services and pay long-delayed wage hikes that just triggered the biggest public sector strike in…
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Israeli strike in Damascus targets Iran-aligned paramilitary officials
An Israeli attack on the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday destroyed a residential building where Iran-aligned paramilitary leaders were meeting. Precision-targeted Israeli missiles destroyed a multi-story building…
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Netanyahu trapped by clashing demands from war cabinet and hawks
TEL AVIV — As he tries to cling to power, Benjamin Netanyahu is being buffeted by contradictory demands over the direction of the war in Gaza. His war…
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Middle East braces for chaos as Iran and West square up
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Western warplanes and guided missiles roared through the skies over Yemen in the early hours of Friday…
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Netanyahu’s coalition bickers over Gaza
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brittle governing coalition isn’t anywhere near resolving its internal splits over how the Gaza Strip…
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The Gaza war is escalating. How bad will the Middle East crisis get?
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. On October 7, Hamas fighters launched a bloody attack against Israel, using paragliders, speedboats and underground tunnels…
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Poland reaches deal with farmers to call off blockade of Ukraine border crossing
Polish farmers ended a blockade of a Poland-Ukraine border crossing after reaching an agreement with Warsaw that met their demands, defusing a dispute that had become an early…
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Russia launches New Year’s Eve strikes against Ukraine
Russia fired off a fresh barrage of strikes at Ukraine on New Year’s Eve, launching nearly 100 Shahed loitering munitions against cities across the country. The General Staff…
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‘Seething’ Putin hammers Ukraine with massive missile and drone attacks
Russia battered Kyiv and Kharkiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least four people and injuring 92 more, after President Vladimir Putin said he was “seething” and…
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Israel green-lights Cypriot aid plan for Palestinians as military pounds Gaza
Israel will allow ships from several European countries to deliver aid directly to war-torn Gaza, the country’s top diplomat said Sunday, as the Israeli military ramped up large-scale…
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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next?
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East…
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Putin has ‘no interest’ in attacking NATO, calls Biden’s warning ‘nonsense’
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow has “no interest” in attacking a NATO member and called U.S. President Joe Biden’s warning that Russia would do so if it…
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My New USA Today Article on How Biden Can Ease Border Problems by More Fully Implementing His Own Plans to Make Legal Immigration Easier
USA Today has published my article (coauthored with Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier) on how Biden’s border problems can be alleviated by expanding and more fully…
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Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM. LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing…
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Germany suggests UN take control in Gaza after Israel-Hamas war ends
Germany has floated that the United Nations could take control in Gaza once the Israel-Hamas war is over, according to a document seen by POLITICO. However, both the…
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