Arizona Republic

But "it's a totally different world" now, says Jennifer Cohen, an education analyst at the New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank in Washington, DC Unlike 40 years ago, by law, schools now must provide special education, access for students ...

"In the not-so-distant future, the United States may well find itself competing for immigrants rather than building walls to keep them out," Phillip Longman writes in the magazine. ...

Jeff Flake relied on a colorful analogy to illustrate to participants in a forum at the Washington, DC-based New America Foundation how the ...

"I don't see major opposition," said William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation, a non-profit, nonpartisan public-policy institute. "There might be some that is not too big that might affect Israel. Absent that, I don't see any major obstacle." ...

As former Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda has written, our southern neighbor remains "a society terribly riven by class, race, gender, age, region and future, where a middle- and upper-class minority segregates and discriminates against the vast majority of the population." ...

Former President Ernesto Zedillo, writer Carlos Fuentes, former foreign minister Jorge Castañeda and the former chief of Calderón's National Action Party have publicly questioned the president's strategy...

The collapse of the Bush administration may be seen by some on the left as a triumph of the popular will. But its main result may more accurately be read as a handover of control from one oligarchy to another. A new, more "enlightened" group may be rising to power, but it’s still unclear what this will mean to the vast majority of Americans.

If Sunnyslope had a patron saint, her name would be the Virgin of Solitude.

The black-cloaked woman is the saint of Oaxaca, Mexico, but her image drapes walls in homes and businesses throughout Sunnyslope, one of the Valley's oldest neighborhoods, nestled at the bottom of Phoenix's North Mountain.

Over the past decade, so many immigrants from the southern Mexican state have moved into Sunnyslope that the working-class community in north-central Phoenix is becoming known as "Little Oaxaca..."

In the opening decades of the 21st century, virtually all of America’s most critical problems -- political, environmental and economic -- will be wrapped up within the issue of energy. Energy fuels our deadliest enemies, threatens our environment, and poses a direct challenge to our long-term economic viability.

What is needed now is a coherent strategy that deals directly with our fundamental geopolitical dilemma: how to grow our economy while reducing our dependence on imported energy and, over time, carbon-emitting fuels.