by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image from Flicker Maria Isabel Puerta Riera March 24, 2021 The immigration system has always struggled to maintain a balance between America’s image as a nation of immigrants and its image as a nation of laws. While contemporary Democrats prefer the...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image from Flicker Maria Isabel Puerta Riera March 16, 2021 United States Senator Ron Johnson said recently that he wasn’t scared when, on January 6, armed insurgents sacked and looted the United States Capitol. They “love this country,” the...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image: Mike Pence from Flicker Maria Isabel Puerta Riera March 10, 2021 Republican lawmakers couldn’t please former President Donald Trump by attempting to overturn the election results on January 6, so they decided to change the laws for the next election....
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
Image from Flicker Maria Isabel Puerta Riera February 24, 2021 A few days ago, President Joe Biden announced to western allies that America is back while the images of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol were still fresh in our memories. The ambitious...
by maripuerta | May 20, 2021 | English, Politics
A functioning democracy needs political parties to connect problems with solutions. In the current state of affairs, American democracy has only one effective democratic party. The other one has been drifting toward illiberalism in a trend that started long before...
