 |  | |  | Emancipation Day 2012: More Meaningful Than Ever
Op-ed | April 13, 2012 On April 16, 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed an Act of Congress to free the 3,128 slaves in the District of Columbia, paving the way for the Emancipation Proclamation. For the 150th anniversary, Maurice Jackson examines changing demographics and the equal treatment of Blacks in the nation's capital. |  | A Glimmer of Hope for US-Pakistan Relations
Event Video | April 10, 2012 Reluctant allies, Pakistan and the US grudgingly need each other to reach shared goals: keeping Al Qaeda out of Afghanistan and structuring an orderly withdrawal of NATO forces. Wilson Center expert Zahid Hussain suggests ways to thaw the “frozen” relationship. |  | Megacities and the Urban Century
Video Q&A | April 11, 2012 If forecasts hold, the 21st century will be the urban century—with three-quarters of the world’s population residing in cities by 2050. In this set of interviews, two experts project dramatically distinct scenarios for our swiftly urbanizing planet. Event Video | Megacities, Global Security, and the Map of the Future |  | The Faces of Unauthorized Immigration
Event Video | April 6, 2012 Spotlighting Latino migrants in the South, Living “Illegal” humanizes an issue too frequently oversimplified by the media. Both journalistic narrative and policy white paper, the book suggests constructive ways to transcend the legal-vs-illegal shouting match. | | Wilson in the News | | JOBS Act A Win for Startups and Economy — CNN The Jumpstart our Business Startups, or JOBS Act, is a win for entrepreneurship as well as bipartisan politics, and given economic hardship, unemployment and political bickering, it's time for a win, writes Public Policy Scholar Amy Wilkinson. | | The Second-Term Illusion — Foreign Policy Distinguished Scholar Aaron David Miller explains why Barack will have a hard time pushing Bibi around in 2013, in this week's “Reality Check” column. | Americas Summit Host Seeks Role as Regional Leader
— Associated Press Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has risked losing Washington’s good graces as he assuages neighbors. He extradited, for example, an alleged major Venezuelan drug trafficker back to his homeland even though he was wanted by the United States. “In contrast to the very solicitous relationship that Uribe had, Santos has adopted a much more pragmatic and distant approach,” says Latin America Program Director Cynthia Arnson. | Brazil and the US: A Relationship of Equals?
— Al Jazeera “This is a relationship that suffered a major setback in 2010 around the Iranian episode and that is in the rebuilding phase since the visit last year of President Obama to Brazil .... I think this is a mature relationship with much promise. It is up to leaders, to the business community to engage and to deepen this relationship,” says Director of the Brazil Institute Paulo Sotero. | US, Brazil 'Disagree More Than They Agree,' Analyst Says
— Newshour Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's visit to the White House Monday was staged to stress strong ties between the US and Latin America's richest country. But the fact that President Obama has not endorsed Brazil for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council is a source of tension between the two countries, says Director of the Brazil Institute Paulo Sotero. | | Ties With US: The Sticking Point — Dawn The proposal to link the reopening of the Nato supply route to the US stopping the drone strikes in the northwest ups the stakes on the revival of relations between Washington and Islamabad, writes Pakistan Scholar Zahid Hussain. | For Mexican Police, Splashy Arrests Trump Criminal
Convictions — McClatchy Newspapers “There isn’t a sense of, 'We need to prove that this person is guilty. “It's just a presumption of guilt,” says Mexico Institute Senior Associate Eric L. Olson. Lawmakers addressed the issue of due process for detainees with a 2008 constitutional revision that established rights such as the presumption of innocence. But they’ve never enacted a criminal procedures code to put that presumption of innocence into day-to-day law. The ambiguity, Olson says, is also apparent in public attitudes. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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