I’ve been carrying a heavy mix of emotions lately. Back home, in the streets where I grew up, innocent and hardworking Mexican immigrants are being taken into big unmarked trucks — disappeared under the cover of night. Families are left wondering where their loved one is and if they will ever see them again. Dreams are erased. People who have built lives among people they thought were friends are treated like they don’t belong anymore. Watching those videos makes something in

In recent weeks, I’ve written about the quiet tightening of global mobility and the slow erosion of our ability to move freely through the world. For many, this idea feels dramatic, something that could never happen to U.S. citizens. But this week, we've seen yet another crack in our fragile system. The Federal Aviation Administration has announced plans to reduce air traffic by about ten percent across forty major U.S. airports. The reason is not a storm or security threat,

Freedom of movement rarely disappears in one day. It erodes through a slow tightening of systems, long before the public recognizes what’s happening. The Warning Signs Always Look Ordinary Every era believes it will see the signs coming. People assume that if things ever turned dangerous or authoritarian, it would be obvious. There would be soldiers in the streets, televised declarations, unmistakable rupture. But history shows otherwise. The loss of mobility, the quiet seali