This corridor, stretching roughly 300 kilometers from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, has been branded as Mexico’s answer to the Panama Canal. But in truth, it is far more than that

Puerto Rico’s debt crisis was born of decades of mismanagement, opportunism, and neglect—by local leaders, Wall Street, and Washington alike. But the U.S. now has a chance to correct course.

D.C. doesn’t need more denial. It needs a targeted federal hammer where violence actually happens—and a serious school-attendance and after-school fix to keep kids from the street pipeline. Wards 2–3 will be fine. The rest of the city deserves the same safety. Let’s stop averaging away the victims.