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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag—but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for. Trump soared to victory in the recent presidential election after campaigning on a hard-line immigration policy and promising to oversee […]
There are few circumstances under which inflation can be comforting. But in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, one of them appears to be when it serves as an alibi for an electorate’s sharp turn toward meanness, selfishness, and a hard-edged type of identity-centered nationalism. […]
At a rally on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina, former U.S. President Donald Trump vowed, if elected, to impose tariffs of between 25 and 100 percent on Mexico until it curbed migration at the U.S. southern border. Later that day in Pittsburgh, Trump said he would impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexico to crack down […]
Sitting on the floor of a rented room in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Karim recalls the pain and grief he sustained during a bombing in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in August, severely injuring him and killing his 7-year-old daughter. “She died on the spot,” he said in an interview in September. (Karim is identified only by his […]
The first—and last—time Indonesia participated in the FIFA World Cup finals was in France in 1938. Competing as the Dutch East Indies, the team was eliminated in the first round with a 6-0 loss to Hungary. The media was ultimately more interested in the fact that captain Achmad Nawir, a doctor, took to the field […]