Obrador

Writing a couple of weeks ago for the New York Review of Books, Jonathan Stevenson suggested that "Trump appears to be testing the American political system’s tolerance for soft dictatorship through the cavalier-- and potentially illegal-- use of presidential emergency powers. On February 15, after months of blustery threats, he declared a national emergency on the southern U.S.

-by Bob Lynch@lynchpinL This New Yorker article by Jon Lee Anderson is probably the best synopsis of Sunday's Mexican Elections that I have read to date. The New Yorker and The Atlantic are doing some of the best political work I have seen and encourage you to follow them closely.The main point I want to stress is that looking at this sole

-by Reese ErlichWhen I was writing an article about street vendors in Mexico City, I saw firsthand how the country's ruling party operated. Vendors eke out a living selling trinkets and food on street corners.

Fucking Moron by Chip ProserMexico elected-- by a landslide-- a new president, a left-wing populist, in a landslide Sunday. Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Unlike Trump, whose election is arguably illegitimate, López Obrador can claim a mandate to make structural changes in his country.