“I am a dissident at heart.” – Tolkachev to his CIA handler on New Year’s Day 1979
Letters and secret messages have played a key role in diplomatic history, and while their use in US-Iran relations may seem a quaint throwback, their presence in this setting has been crucial in this most problematic of diplomatic relationships.
Argentinian leaders have faced a balancing act between cultivating meaningful relations with Washington while assuaging a staunchly anti-American public. This dynamic, however, is being reimagined as the Argentine 2015 presidential race heats up.
Prospects for meaningful immigration reform grow ever more remote on the agenda of the U.S. Congress. $46 billion was earmarked in 2013 for border security, a wastefully ineffectual increase of U.S. national debt.1 Public interest in prioritizing educated tech workers or job-creating investors remains a footnote to an afterthought.2 America: built on freedom of migration? A narrative’s power does not necessarily depend on its truth. What if the problem lies within its relativity and had at its core not the migration of foreigners, but the immobility and inadaptability of its …
Recent debates on immigration, both in the United States and abroad, have become increasingly controversial and politically charged. In the wake of President Obama’s November 2014 executive action to grant approximately 5 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States protection from deportation, Congress remains deadlocked on the immigration issue, as Republicans threaten to reverse the president’s actions by withholding funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In Europe, anti-immigration sentiment appears to be on the rise, as evidenced by the relative success…