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Trump-Supportive Republicans Have Harder-Line Views on Immigration

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Washington Post
Coauthors

The issue that drove Donald Trump’s original presidential bid remains a divider within his party, Council data show.

A Trump supporter wears a red Make America Great Again hat and a suit with a brick wall pattern
AP Photos
Public Opinion

Populist Candidate Javier Milei Offers Easy Answers to Argentina's Hard Problems

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Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

Milei’s appeal draws attention to an acute problem facing democracies around the world: Good governance and good politics don’t always align.

Javier Milei speaks during a rally in Buenos Aires
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Global Politics

How Drugs Are Destroying the Amazon

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

Though the protection of the Amazon is a top global priority, drugs and deforestation are increasingly linked as threats to the world's largest rainforest.

Deforestation in the Amazon
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Climate and the Environment

Ranching Doesn't Have to Destroy the Amazon Rainforest

In the News
Los Angeles Times
Robert Muggah

After decades of research, Brazil has led experiments to recuperate degraded rainforest and help ranchers produce more without toppling any more forest.

Amazon Rainforest logging
AP Photos
Climate and the Environment

Brazil's Indigenous Territory Bill Spells Trouble for the Amazon

In the News
Context
Robert Muggah

The controversial legislation would overrule ancestral land claims by native communities, which could increase development in the Amazon.

Brazilian Amazon
AP Photos
Climate and the Environment

Lifting Sanctions Could Reduce Pressure at the US Border

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Global Insight by Emma Sanderson

US sanctions on Latin American countries have exacerbated the worsening economic and political conditions behind the current migrant surge.

Biden walks with agents near the US-Mexico border
Adam Schultz for White House
US Foreign Policy

Artificial Intelligence Will Entrench Global Inequality

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

“Unmitigated AI could deepen social, economic, and digital cleavages between and within countries,” warns Robert Muggah with Ilona Szabó.

Icon for Chat GPT on a phone home screen.
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Tech and Science

The Global Cost of Childhood Malnutrition

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Childhood malnutrition has lifelong consequences for individuals and the global community. Here’s what you can do to help.

Shyamakali and her children.
Anne Thurow
Food and Agriculture

Latin America's Crime Surge is Fueled by Cocaine Production

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Small Wars Journal
Robert Muggah

Many Latin American and Caribbean countries are in the grip of a crime epidemic as international drug trafficking surges with cocaine production.

Colombian victims of drug trafficking violence
AP Photos
Defense and Security

Siloed Farmers: Reconciling Information Divides

Podcast
Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

Existing barriers between rural and urban areas, and young and old farmers perpetuates an information divide in agriculture that a young cattle farmer is trying to reconcile.

A young man leads two cows on a dirt road.
Sagar Kulkarni
Food and Agriculture