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Cinco de Mayo! And Moving Past the Pandemic

I thought I would share this piece in honor of today.  A nice window into what is happening as we speak in the city of Puebla, heart of 5 de Mayo celebrations.Little swine flu concern in Cinco de Mayo...

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Flu crisis brought U.S., Mexico together

This was originally published as an op-ed in the June 7 Houston Chronicle.Presidential summits have a well-deserved reputation for being much talk and much less action. President Barack Obama’s April...

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From Mexico, President Obama Says Immigration Reform is Possible Early Next Year

At his press conference a few minutes ago in Mexico, President Obama was asked about the prospects for immigration reform in the United States.  This is answer, as provided by the White House:With...

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Crafting An American Response to the Rise of the Rest

Salon Magazine asked me and a few others to offer their thoughts on the first year of the Obama Presidency.  My short essay is below.  A version of the essay can be found on the Salon site here....

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Social Networking Against Violence in Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, may be the most violent city in the world; the spectacular murder rate and the uncounted headless bodies are attributable primarily to the drug trade...

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On Monday, Watch Sarukhan, Bersin Discuss Vision for "21st Century" U.S -...

On Monday, May 24th, at noon ET, I hope you will tune into NDN/NPI for a special event looking at a vital new initiative - a newly announced joint US-Mexican vision for a "21st Century Border." Joining...

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A Tale of Two Twitters

Ok, two stories from Mexico City.In July, four Mexican journalists were kidnapped in Durango.  The kidnappers, connected to a drug cartel, sought to force the TV news media to air segments sending the...

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Internet Necesario and the Mexican Netroots

On Tuesday, the Mexican Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging President Felipe Calderon to withdraw from negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). The grounds of their...

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Reading: The Murderers of Mexico

The single best account I've read (in English, anyway) of Mexico's drug war is an article in the current New York Review of Books by Alma Guillermoprieto. Looking at four books on the personalities,...

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Steve Bannon, Meet Russell Pearce

US News and World Report has published Simon's fourteenth column, "Steve Bannon, Meet Russell Pearce," in his weekly Op-Ed series that will now appear every Tuesday.This piece was the focus of a recent...

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