WOMEN’S RIGHTS HAVE IMPROVED IN NORTH AFRICA, BUT THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
Ten years after the Arab Spring uprisings, a look at the impact on women’s rights in the Maghreb, write Maro Youssef, Meriem Aissa, and Suzie Abdou.
MEXICO’S TRANSFORMATION—OR LACK THEREOF
More than 25 years after NAFTA was enacted, Mexico has improved in innumerable aspects, but its essential challenges—poverty, regional inequality, a bad justice system, wholesale violence and criminality, and an incompetent government—remain there as always, writes Luis Rubio.
AN UPDATE ON U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONS AND MEXICO’S ECONOMY AND SECURITY
The approval of a new national security law in Mexico promises to disrupt security cooperation between Mexico and the United States, writes the Monarch Global Strategies team.
MEXICAN CONSUL GENERAL IN LA MARCELA CELORIO ON THE U.S.-MEXICO RELATIONSHIP IN 2021
Pacific Council member Cassie Hermiston-Boyd interviews Mexican Consul General in LA Marcela Celorio about the future of the U.S.-Mexico trade relationship.
WHY THE UNITED STATES NEEDS A NATIONAL CLIMATE INVESTMENT FUND
The United States should establish a climate innovation-focused investment fund to accelerate the development of potential solutions to our mushrooming climate catastrophe, while also creating jobs and leverage for incremental private investment, writes Brewer Stone.
THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD WONDER WOMEN WHO INSPIRED THE COMIC
The contemporary superheroine has a backstory inspired by Greek mythology, which in turn was inspired by real-life ancient warrior women, writes Kimiya Shokoohi.
THE LIFE OF IRAN’S MOST CELEBRATED MASS KILLER: A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF IRANIAN TERROR CHIEF QASSEM SOLEIMANI
Arash Azizi’s fluent and groundbreaking new biography of the late Qassem Soleimani, The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S., and Iran’s Global Ambitions, is a well-sourced work of history with revelations that verge on the amazing, writes Peter Theroux.
OUR BEST SHOT
Here is some context on whether we can trust the COVID-19 vaccine, write Peter Katona and Seth Freeman.
THE BERLIN WALL MAY BE HISTORY, BUT THE SURVEILLANCE STATE STILL THREATENS US
As we remember the fall of the Berlin Wall, we cannot take for granted the democratic freedoms we all enjoy and we must continue to fight for and defend the values that are the foundation of our Western democracies, writes Ambassador Carla Sands.
CONTRASTS: U.S. AND MEXICAN PRESIDENCIES
Unlike the recent U.S. election, in which institutions adhered to the rules of the game, in Mexico there are no institutions that can resist the pounding and not enough officials who are willing to make them stand, writes Luis Rubio.

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