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![<p>U.S. Border Patrol agents stand guard at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 8, 2026.</p>]()
- Backgrounder
Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels
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![<p>Conduits for fiber to connect superclusters of data centers are under construction during a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., September 23, 2025.</p>]()
By Shannon K. O'Neil![<p>Members of the Civilian Joint Task Force stand guard during a drill near a bush in Minna, Niger state, Nigeria, on November 29, 2025. Vigilante groups have stepped in to fill security gaps as rural communities face rising attacks and abductions by armed gangs.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p>Displaced people ride an animal-drawn cart, following attacks on the Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila in Sudan on April 15, 2025.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo![<p>People work at a construction site facing shortages of migrant workers due to immigration raids, near Mobile, Alabama, July 14, 2025.</p>]()
By Diana Roy![<p>People watch the USS Gravely, a U.S. Navy warship, departing the Port of Spain on October 30, 2025. </p>]()
By Will Merrow![<p>A newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hangs at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, on November 2, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>As fentanyl flows in from the south, the U.S. government has stepped up measures both at the border and beyond to curb the influx.</p>]()
By Mariel Ferragamo![<p>People walk along a street between St. Joseph Catholic Church and Kano Road Central Mosque in Kaduna, Nigeria. </p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- Backgrounder
Haiti’s Troubled Path to Development
![A Haitian girl walks through a garbage-filled ravine in Port-au-Prince.]()
- Backgrounder
How Does the U.S. Refugee System Work?
![<p>Meena Mosazai and her family live in Seattle after having moved from Afghanistan.</p>]()
![<p>Newspapers with articles reporting U.S. President Donald Trump’s message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hang at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria, on November 2, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- Backgrounder
Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
![<p>Photos of fentanyl victims shown at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters. </p>]()
- By Elliott Abrams
![<p>Workers at the Google campus in Mountain View, California, May 10, 2023.</p>]()
By Clara Fong and Diana Roy![<p>Protesters against an agreement to accept third-country deportees hold placards as lead applicant and lawyer Mzwandile Masuku addresses them outside the court in Mbabane, Eswatini on August 22, 2025.</p>]()
By Caroline Hecht- Backgrounder
What Is Canada’s Immigration Policy?
![<p>New Canadians wave the national flag during a citizenship ceremony in Toronto.</p>]()
- Backgrounder
U.S. Gun Policy: Global Comparisons
![<p>Students embrace near a makeshift memorial after a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia.</p>]()
![<p>People sit under the Falomo Bridge, where murals depicting the abduction of over two hundred Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram are displayed, on the day Nigerians mark the eleventh anniversary of the abduction, in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, on April 14, 2025.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare- Backgrounder
China’s Repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang
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