The Latest Breaking News from Eduardo Porter

Iran is right: Trump has already lost

Tehran TACO: Trump's bad idea has gone wrong, to literally no one's surprise. Will Putin bail him out?

Salon · Mar 29

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump

Jeff Bezos’s axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America’s democracy to withstand Trump’s attacks

The Guardian - US · Feb 8

UBI Can't Stop an AI Power Grab, Critics Say—Because 'Robot Owners' Control the Money

UK AI Growth Zones and a 20-fold public compute plan aim to spread benefits, but critics warn UBI can't curb the power held by 'robot owners'.

International Business Times UK · Dec 16, 2025

Eduardo Porter: Latin America’s stance on Ukraine is trapped in the past

How much do people in Latin America hate the U.S.?

Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023

Eduardo Porter: Treat Mexico like a partner, not a wall

Something is afoot in American immigration policy.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2023

Eduardo Porter: An immigration deal for Dreamers is out of reach

To hear Sen. Joe Manchin, pro-immigrant advocates are getting way too excited over the prospect of a deal in the lame duck Congress that would allow for the legalization of two million “Dreamers,” immigrants brought illegally into the country as minors by their parents. “I don’t see any movement there,”…

Tribune News Service · Dec 16, 2022

Eduardo Porter: Migrant workers face worse choices than building World Cup stadiums

The global financial crisis of 2008 dealt a blow to thousands of Indian laborers. They were set to join hundreds of thousands of compatriots providing the workforce for a construction boom in Dubai. Then the world economy spasmed, the price of oil tanked and international finance dried up. Hundreds of…

Tribune News Service · Nov 30, 2022

Eduardo Porter: Immigration’s burden doesn’t fall on a ‘handful of red states’

Who bears the burden of immigration? Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have made much of their claim that their jurisdictions do so disproportionately, and those run by Democrats obviously do not.

Tribune News Service · Oct 6, 2022

Eduardo Porter: Deliver students from debt by investing in state schools

President Joe Biden is going to spend several hundred billion dollars to cancel the debts of millions of college students. This big outlay will probably bolster his standing among graduates in the up-to-$125,000-a-year salary range who populate the deep-blue voting grounds of urban America.

Tribune News Service · Sep 14, 2022