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CNN: Post-Brexit UK-US Trade

Euan McKirdy and Hilary McGann November 27, 2018
Every step in Brexit negotiations and new procedures creates winners and losers for industries and workers throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and beyond. Members of the European Union reached draft agreement with the government of UK Prime Minister Theresa May, and the UK Parliament’s approval is now required. “Under the draft agreement, the UK will stay inside the bloc's single market...

Wall Street Journal: Fewer Foreign Students in US

Michelle Hackman and Douglas Belkin November 14, 2018
US enrollment of international students has declined for the second year in a row, amid worries about gun violence, harsh immigration policies, resentment over trade and a culture of nativism. “Foreign students are big business,” writes Michelle Hackman and Douglas Belkin for the Wall Street Journal, adding they added $42 billion into college and university coffers this current year. “The...

Japan Times: Japan Plans for Foreign Worker Influx

November 7, 2018
Japan has an aging population due to low fertility rates and strict immigration laws. The nation’s median age is 46.9, second only to Monaco. Officials are overhauling regulations as Japan prepares to welcome 40,000 more foreign workers in April 2019 and hopes to curb abuses of the health “insurance system, which caps an insured person’s monthly payment of medical bills depending on age and...

Financial Times: World Fears “Trumpism” Is Here to Stay

Gideon Rachman November 6, 2018
Global observers view the outcome of US midterm elections as a test of the durability of Donald Trump’s policies. “If the Republicans do well, then many will conclude that ‘Trumpism’ is here to stay,” explains Gideon Rachman for the Financial Times. “The rest of the world would have to make a long-term adjustment to an America that is highly protectionist and suspicious of treaties on principle...

Los Angeles Times: Is the US Facing a Border Crisis?

Cindy Carcamo October 23, 2018
A caravan of migrants originating in Honduras is headed to the United States. Now in Mexico, the migrants number more than 7,000, picking up more people along the way as group travel provides security and draws attention to fears about political instability and gang violence at home. The US president has threatened to use the military to forcibly stop the migrants from approaching the border to...

New York Times: Migrant Children Tent Camp

Caitlin Dickerson September 30, 2018
Harsh new policies have increased the numbers of migrant children in US government care – a record number of more than 13,000 migrant children, some separated from their parents at the border but many unaccompanied minors who traveled to the country on their own. Immigration officials have started relocating the children from shelters and homes around the country with education and safety...

BBC News: Europe and Nationalism

September 10, 2018
Nationalist and far-right parties are making electoral gains throughout Europe. The most recent example: Sweden Democrats winning about 18 percent of the vote on September 9. BBC News points to common themes including opposition to immigration and refugees, Islam and the European Union project: “In part, this can be seen as a backlash against the political establishment in the wake of the...