A Sensible Marijuana Policy, From Uruguay

July 12, 2012

Four decades of failed marijuana policy is finally producing sensible change. Unfortunately for us, it’s happening in Uruguay.

Walls And Fences

Walls And Fences August 16, 2011

Fifty years after Berlin, new walls are monuments to insecurity. The best fences are the ones nobody needs.

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The Open Road Beckons U.S. And Mexico

March 10, 2011

Each year around $200 billion of goods from Mexico pass into the United States. Now the trucks that carry those goods, and the people who drive them, will be allowed to enter as well. A proposed agreement between Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe Calderon will end a two-decade-old policy that prohibits Mexican trucking companies from carrying goods more than 25 miles over U.S. soil. Products will no longer have to …

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What Colombia’s Example Can, And Can’t, Offer Mexico

October 13, 2010

Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, the Colombian guerilla leader who was killed in a raid last month, was nicknamed Mono Jojoy after the mojojoy worm, which is famously slippery and difficult to capture. But, as Colombia makes progress against the guerilla force, equally violent Mexican drug cartels are proving they may have more than a little in common with the mojojoy themselves. Suárez Rojas, who was variously known as Jorge Briceño …

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A Financial Thunderstorm, Not A Hurricane

May 5, 2010

The Greek financial crisis sent markets around the world reeling yesterday, as the soothing effects of the Eurozone’s $143 billion bailout package wore off after just one business day. If Greece falls, and then perhaps Portugal, will we be looking at the sort of global paralysis that set in when the Bear Stearns domino hit the Lehman Brothers domino, which hit Merrill Lynch, which hit American International Group, ad infinitum? …

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