Mexico has been rather effective serving as the first barrier for the US against refugees from central America.

Drug prohibition has had a racist tinge since 1857. Its repression still falls mostly on the poor and disprivileged.

I cheer consumers that are willing to pay 25% more for fair trade cocaine, but I think it will be unnecessary — a decrease in repression would cut the price by far more than that. Legalizing sales only through a regulated market might open the door for fair trade initiatives, as well as make drugs' strength and composition predictable (thus avoiding most of the deaths) and discouraging some new users.

Evelyn Hernández was acquitted of "murdering" a stillborn fetus, but the prosecutors are going to appeal.

Allowing an appeal of an acquittal means that even once you are acquitted you remain in jeopardy. This should not be allowed.

Maria Isabel Bueso's medical condition has no cure, but can be treated in the US. The deportation thugs told her to leave the US within 33 days.

That period is now almost up.

Media Lab Director Joi Ito confessed that he had secretly accepted donations from Epstein after MIT had decided not to do so.

He also accepted funds for some personal activities of his own.

That dishonesty, and conflict of interest, make his resignation obligatory.

But I fear for the effect on the Media Lab. Under Negroponte, the lab was notoriously stingy and proprietary. Ito correct that. I fear that the next director will undo some of Ito's changes.