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How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:06:34 -0700

TCS Daily - By Robert M. Dunn Jr. - Jun. 28 (Opinion) - [F]ew Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory....There has been a stunning decline in the fertility rate in Mexico....

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New War and the Threat to Globalization

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:42:20 -0700

TCS Daily - By James H. Joyner Jr. - Jun. 26 (Interview) - TCS contributor James Joyner recently interviewed John Robb of the Global Guerrillas blog on his new book Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization. Robb paints a picture of a resilient enemy that morphs into something new just as we develop ways to protect ourselves. He offers no quick fixes and argues that terrorists are the equivalent of computer viruses: A nasty reality of modern life that should cause us to take reasonable countermeasures but, mostly, something we just have to live with.

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Journalists, You're in the Army Now

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:38:26 -0700

TCS Daily - By Robert Haddick - Jun. 06 (News Analysis) - The days of the independent, neutral war correspondent, objectively reporting from a war's front lines, are quickly coming to an end. In the future, a war correspondent will either effectively be a soldier for one faction of a conflict, or he will literally not survive in the war zone.

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Depoliticizing Crime and Decriminalizing Politics

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:10:32 -0700

TCS Daily - By James H. Joyner Jr. - Mar. 23 (News Analysis) - The recent flap over the Bush Administration's firing of eight U.S. attorneys has demonstrated the escalation of two related and unfortunate trends in American politics: the politicization of crime and the criminalization of politics. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other Administration officials have contended that the firings were for "performance" reasons and emphasized that they were well within the prerogative of the president, since U.S. Attorneys are appointees who "serve at the pleasure of the president." Congressional Democrats (and an increasing number of Congressional Republicans) smell something fishy in some of the firings, whose timings were suspiciously close with impending indictments against prominent Republicans or failed attempts exercise political pressure to bring prosecutions against Democrats for voter fraud. Further, some contend that Administration officials may have perjured themselves in misrepresenting the nature of the firings to Congress.

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The Human Calculus of National Security

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:50:01 -0800

TCS Daily - By Philip R. O'Connor PH.D - Nov. 20 (News Report) - Sen. Boxer has posed a fundamental question: What price in American lives are we prepared to pay for our national security policies?

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Why Intellectuals Love Defeat

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:00:04 -0800

TCS Daily - By Josh Manchester - Nov. 13 (News Report) - It is difficult not to conclude that there is a class of well-intentioned individuals in the United States like him who don't merely feel as they do upon witnessing a defeat, but instead think this way all the time. Like it or not, this mentality of permanent defeat plays a large part in the Democratic Party. It is now up to President Bush and the new Democratic congressional leadership to see that it does not become dominant.

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