Enrique Peña Nieto

The newly elected Mexican president will have to prove that his promises to confront Trump are more than just rhetoric.

Imagine for a moment if Bernie Sanders had won the 2016 presidential election. That's a little bit like what has just happened in Mexico.

After many disappointments, the left-populist alternative looks primed for a big win in Mexico.

An open letter to members of Congress

The U.S. remains in a precarious economic situation, as does the world, and that means Trump's trade war and nationalism, coupled with bank deregulation, could inflict more risk on depleted economies.

A wall running the entire nearly 2,000-mile frontier from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, conservationists warn, would be catastrophic for borderland ecosystems and many wildlife species, undoing years of environmental cooperation between the two countries to protect animals that must move freely or die.

(Or how to build a wall and lose an empire)

Not only would Trump's attack on remittances be cruel and harsh for individuals and families on both sides of the border, it would also not be nearly enough to pay for his ridiculous wall.