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Raising Wages in Mexico Could Sharply Reduce Illegal Immigration, Experts Say

One of the benefits sold by former U.S. President Bill Clinton to approve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993 was that the agreement would reduce illegal immigration substantially. Twenty years after it was enacted, experts mostly do not agree on the particular effect NAFTA has on immigration.

Using the numbers to analyze it, the results are confusing. For years after the bill, the number of undocumented Mexicans in the United States skyrocketed from 2.5 million in 1995 to 11 million in 2005.

How the U.S. is Losing Latin America

Recently, American foreign policy priorities have been highly focused on the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Between winding down the U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and navigating the tumult caused by the Arab Spring, President Obama has spent much of his diplomatic capital in the Middle East.

In the Asia-Pacific region, the president has further increased American diplomatic involvement. For the past few years, the U.S.

Republican Congressman Rodney Davis is Among Most Vulnerable in 2014

As the 2014 midterm elections approach, parties and candidates are organizing, and potential swing districts are already in campaign mode.

One such district, the Illinois 13th, stretches from Collinsville in the west and south up through central Illinois and includes Springfield, as well as Bloomington and Champaign-Urbana.

Will The U.S. Use Drones to Kill Another American Overseas?

The above video is embedded from BenSwann.com.

Evan Falchuk: We're On The Right Track to Improving Politics in Mass.

Month 8 in Evan Falchuk’s diary of his Independent campaign for Governor of Massachusetts

Any campaign for public office is busy, I’d guess, but I didn’t realize quite how busy until I began running as an independent in Massachusetts.

Internet Joins Together to #StopTheNSA

On February 11, thousands of websites will host banners urging people to call or email Congress and speak out against the National Security Agency's practices of mass surveillance.

The Day We Fight Back's website reads:

Do the American People Have Freedom?

Yesterday, in a classroom of about 400 people, my professor asked: “Are you free?”

America is the Land of Freedom. People come to the U.S. assuming that their choices will be respected, exercising their human right to the unconfined pursuit of happiness. I answered "Yes," anticipating being among the majority. To my amazement, 60 percent of my class answered "No." Now that’s worth writing about...

BREAKING: Massachusetts Independent to Challenge U.S. Senator Markey

In an improbable attempt to challenge the political establishment, Millbury, Massachusetts resident Bruce Skarin has announced his entry as an independent into the 2014 race for U.S. Senate. The 37-year-old scientist and father of two made the decision to officially enter the race after two years of research into the problems with government and after walking over 185 miles through New Hampshire in January as part of the

NH Rebellion.

Ted Cruz is Right About Keystone -- But Not for the Reasons He Thinks

According to the

Washington Post, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) will outline his plan for what he calls an "energy renaissance" in the United States at Heritage Action for America's 2014 Conservative Policy Summit.

A Brief History of the Executive Order

With any administration, we tend to hear from time-to-time the mention of executive orders being issued by the president. Even in his last State of the Union speech, President Obama stated that he would use executive orders to move things forward where he could when Congress could not or would not act. But, what are executive orders and what can a president do with them?