Associate Professor of Geography, Vassar
Associate Professor of Geography at Vassar. He studies border policy
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Joseph Nevins
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Other States and Localities Inspired by Arizona’s Immigration Bill Arizona has taken a lot of political heat for the new immigration law that’s led to warnings about racial profiling. That has not kept politicians in other states from proposing similar legislation. The Gallup poll shows that 51% of Americans have heard of Arizona’s new immigration law. Just 39% are opposed…and 51% are supportive.
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.