Gangs, immigration, and human rights
What do these three things have in common? They're all on ForeignPolicy.com this week: The Sopranos, an acclaimed television drama about a fictional Italian-American mobster, is headed for its last season finale after six years of startling success. But what of the real-world mafias that control illicit trade and terrorize innocent victims from Moscow to ...
What do these three things have in common? They're all on ForeignPolicy.com this week: The Sopranos, an acclaimed television drama about a fictional Italian-American mobster, is headed for its last season finale after six years of startling success. But what of the real-world mafias that control illicit trade and terrorize innocent victims from Moscow to Mexico City? This week's FP List, The World's Most Powerful Crime Syndicates, shows that when it comes to powerful global crime networks, we can't just "fuggedaboutit."Philippe Legrain, author of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, argues in Better Than Nothing that, from phantom security enhancements to a complicated points system that only a bureaucrat could love, the immigration compromise before the U.S. Senate is worse than nearly every realistic alternative except one: more of the same. Amnesty International has just released its annual report on the state of human rights in over 150 countries around the globe. For this week's Seven Questions, FP spoke with Joshua Rubenstein, a senior spokesman for the human rights organization, on the regimes and trends that are making the world a much nastier place.Check 'em out.
What do these three things have in common? They're all on ForeignPolicy.com this week:
- The Sopranos, an acclaimed television drama about a fictional Italian-American mobster, is headed for its last season finale after six years of startling success. But what of the real-world mafias that control illicit trade and terrorize innocent victims from Moscow to Mexico City? This week's FP List, The World's Most Powerful Crime Syndicates, shows that when it comes to powerful global crime networks, we can't just "fuggedaboutit."
- Philippe Legrain, author of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, argues in Better Than Nothing that, from phantom security enhancements to a complicated points system that only a bureaucrat could love, the immigration compromise before the U.S. Senate is worse than nearly every realistic alternative except one: more of the same.
- Amnesty International has just released its annual report on the state of human rights in over 150 countries around the globe. For this week's Seven Questions, FP spoke with Joshua Rubenstein, a senior spokesman for the human rights organization, on the regimes and trends that are making the world a much nastier place.
Check 'em out.
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