How Latin America’s Left Could Lose Their Scapegoat

Will Obama’s Trip to Cuba and Argentina Be the Nail in the Coffin for the Region’s Tired Anti-American Script?

Barack Obama took a deserved victory lap in Latin America last week.

Critics of the president’s opening to Cuba accuse Obama of appeasing the Castro regime, but they missed the historic significance of the trip.

When Obama went on Cuban TV and radio to say that he’d made the visit to “bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas,” he might as well have been burying the nation’s virulently anti-American regime, not just Washington’s outdated policies.

Obama’s visit did more to spotlight the truly heinous nature of the …

By Andrés Martinez | March 28, 2016

‘Brexit’ Is a Losing Game

Beyond Global Influence, National Security, and Economic Opportunity, the United Kingdom Would Lose Its Ability to Look Beyond Itself

March 9, 2016

In 1975, the United Kingdom voted on quitting Europe for the first time—just two years after it had joined the European Economic Community. A flip in power from the pro-European …

What Will California Do Without the Export-Import Bank?

It Is Time to Bring Back a Self-Sustaining State Export-Financing Agency

By Kati Suominen | November 12, 2015

While the political battle over the future of the Export-Import Bank of the United States reaches fever pitch in the Senate, exporters in California and across the United States keep …

China Isn’t Afraid of the New Pacific Trade Deal

It Sounds Good on Capital Hill to Say the Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Limit the Middle Kingdom's Influence, but That's Not Reality

By Felipe Caro and Christopher S. Tang | September 14, 2015

There’s no doubt the 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership currently being negotiated by the Obama administration is a political hot potato. Will the trade deal destroy or create more American jobs? …

Arizona Could Become the Gateway to the Americas

Trade, Tourists, and Warm Welcomes Are Already Bringing Mexico and the Southwest Closer Together

by Joe Mathews | June 5, 2015

Arizona and Mexico, separated at birth? Panelists at a Zócalo/Azteca event at the Heard Museum in Phoenix didn’t go that far. But in a wide-ranging conversation about Mexico’s economic rise …

Panama Canal’s New Move Could Rock the Boat for West Coast Ports

Expansion Could Steal Traffic From What Has Till Now Been the Nation's Largest Maritime Gateway

by Jock O’Connell | May 11, 2015

2014 was not an especially good year for the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Adjacent to each other on San Pedro Bay, the two ports are collectively the nation’s …

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