A NAFTA collapse could push Mexico over the edge on November 20, 2017There are two foreign men whose faces you see constantly on the streets of Mexico’s capital these days – on magazine covers, on posters and billboards, caricatured on T-shirts and, in the case of one of them, hung as pinatas. That one is Donald Trump. He has achieved a folkloric notoriety in Mexico unprecedented among […]
Economic victims didn’t elect Trump, the well-off and segregated did on November 14, 2016It was described, over and over, as a movement made up of blue-collar victims of a faltering economy whose lives have been changed by trade and immigration. But when it came to the crunch, it turned out that Donald Trump’s backers were something else entirely: Both far more numerous and much less economically marginal than […]