Opinion

During the election campaign then-presidential candidate Joe Biden pledged to run a fair and humane immigration system. But that's not what we have seen during his early months in the White House.

Why did Mexican president López Obrador take a stroll with Cuban leader Díaz-Canel in the Zocalo of Mexico City?

Our traditional system of public education is poorly adapted to helping children discover their wide range of skills. We need to make the system more flexible and create new options for families, such as distance learning and open enrollment policies, allowing kids to attend public schools other than the one assigned to them.

Despite the myriad problems along the border with Mexico, the new U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, is optimistic.

Why can't the Mexican government treat migrants from Central America and other parts of our continent with the same generosity and solidarity that it offered to Afghan refugees who arrived recently?

It has taken me two decades to digest what I saw and lived in those days of terror, and I still can't say that I overcame it.

I can understand when the pandemic spreads in a country with no access to vaccines. But it is unforgivable that the United States is suffering through another wave of covid-19.

With rising global temperatures, the ocean’s levels of dissolved oxygen have skyrocketed. The current outlook on the climate crisis barely even considers the oceans, even though it covers two thirds of the earth’s surface.

Clearly, Mexico's policy of 'abrazos, no balazos' (hugs, not bullets) has failed. Also failed is the creation of the National Guard, which broke an initial promise that the crisis would be handled by civilians.

For the first time since the 1790 census, the white non-Hispanic population shrank, according to the Census Bureau. In the future, there will be fewer whites and more Latins, Asians and members of other minorities.