From Ameriquests, a special issue on Quebec in the Modern World. Zack Taylor (Toronto): If Different, Then Why? Explaining the Divergent Political Development of Canadian and American Local Governance. Wayne Sumner (Toronto): Hate Speech: North and South. Teresa Hernandez (FIU) and Robert W. McGee (Fayetteville State): The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe: A Comparative Study of Opinion in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Genoveva Millan Vazquez de la Torre, Juan Manuel Arjona Fuentes, and Luis Amador Hidalgo (Loyola Andalucia): Tourism Development in Heritage Sites: The Case of Tequila, Mexico. Lost in translation: On immigration, drugs, and virtually every other pressing policy issue, why can’t the United States and Mexico stop talking past each other? Matt DeHart, a former U.S. soldier seeking asylum in Canada, claims he’s wanted for working with Anonymous; the U.S. says he may be a spy — and more. Dreaming of NAFTA: Tejano star Selena represented the cultural promise of a more open U.S. Mexico border; her death presaged the ultimate fate of that dream. Can Tim Hortons sell Americans on Canadian breakfast? John Handley reviews Alternative North Americans: What Canada and the United States Can Learn from Each Other by David T. Jones. From the Canadian magazine Maclean's, America dumbs down: The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking — has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind? Why America’s two neighbours don’t get along: Canada and Mexico share the fortune, or misfortune, of a border with the world’s most powerful country, which looks down on both of them. The Man Without a Mask: William Finnegan on how the drag queen Cassandro became a star of Mexican wrestling.
