AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors: Beto O’Rourke
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The U.S. congressman from El Paso who is trying to sell Washington on what the border is really like.
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AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors: Pati Jinich
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Leer en español | See the rest of our AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors “I can’t be of much use here anymore. All I can think about is food.” With that, Pati Jinich left a promising career in political analysis at a Washington, … Read more
AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors: Alfredo Corchado
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Leer en español | See the rest of our AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors A sandy riverbed and a few bridges are nearly all that physically separate El Paso, Texas, from Juárez, Mexico. That short distance belies over a century of history that … Read more
AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors: Rebeca Vargas
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Leer en español | See the rest of our AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors Gathered around a square table in Mexico City, a group of U.S. Dreamers and Mexican senators spoke candidly, sharing their hopes for a better future. A meeting between the … Read more
AQ Top 5 Embajadores de la Frontera: Adrián González
Read in English Para Adrián González, el béisbol comenzó en la frontera. Nacido en San Diego, criado en Tijuana, y ahora pelotero para Los Angeles Dodgers, creció jugando en las Pequeñas Ligas en los dos países, yendo y viniendo durante los fines de semana para jugar la mayor cantidad de tiempo posible. Evidentemente, valió la … Read more
AQ Top 5 Embajadores de la Frontera: Pati Jinich
Read in English “Ya no puedo ser de mucho uso aquí. Solo puedo pensar en comida”. Con eso, Pati Jinich dejó una carrera prometedora de análisis político en una firma en Washington D.C. para convertirse en chef. No se ha arrepentido de su decisión. En los 12 años que han pasado desde entonces, Jinich, nacida … Read more
AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors: Adrián González
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Leer en español | See the rest of our AQ Top 5 Border Ambassadors For Adrián González, baseball began at the border. Born in San Diego, raised in Tijuana, and now the first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, he grew up playing … Read more
AQ Top 5 Embajadores de la Frontera: Alfredo Corchado
Read in English Un cauce y unos cuantos puentes son casi todo lo que físicamente separa la ciudad de El Paso, Texas con la de Juárez, México. Esa distancia corta esconde más que un siglo de historia que suele parecer insuperable para algunos. Pero para Alfredo Corchado, esa distancia pueda ser cruzada con tan solo … Read more
AQ Top 5 Embajadores de la Frontera: Rebeca Vargas
Read in English Reunidos alrededor de una mesa cuadrada en Ciudad de México, un grupo de Dreamers americanos y senadores mexicanos hablaban con sinceridad, compartiendo su esperanza por un mejor futuro. Una reunión entre los dos grupos podría parecer inusual, pero no para la mujer que los unió. Por más de una década, Rebeca Vargas, … Read more
AQ Top 5 Embajadores de la Frontera: Beto O’Rourke
Read in English Con un nombre como ese, la historia de Beto O’Rourke en cierto modo se cuenta por sí sola. Nacido como “Robert” en El Paso, él, como la mayoría de las 2,7 millones de personas en el área de El Paso-Ciudad Juárez, pasó su infancia saltando entre las dos ciudades. Los cumpleaños de … Read more
Film Review: “The Distinguished Citizen”
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Early in The Distinguished Citizen, Daniel Mantovani (Oscar Martínez) says the only thing he’s ever done is escape the town of his youth. The truth is that his past sustains him more than he would like to admit. Daniel, the “distinguished … Read more
10 Things to Do: Northwest Argentina
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Argentina’s northwest corner owes much of its appeal to the convergence of Andean deserts and fertile valleys, offering visitors an array of stunning natural landscapes to get lost in. Its isolation from the rest of the country, meanwhile, has helped the … Read more
Argentina on Display
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. From London’s Frieze to Miami’s Art Basel, art fairs are the zenith of the art market, providing a platform for gallerists, artists, curators and collectors to interact. Buenos Aires, once isolated from the rest of the art world, is now attracting … Read more
Francis Mallman: From Patagonia to the World
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. Francis Mallmann, widely acknowledged as Argentina’s top chef, is credited with bringing southern Argentina’s traditional wood-fired cuisine of grilled meats to the world. “I think I have developed a particular language that allows me to communicate beyond taste,” said the French-trained … Read more
“Fever Dream”
This article is adapted from AQ’s special issue on the U.S.-Mexico relationship. To receive AQ at home, subscribe here. “Haunting” is one of those literary descriptors that are applied perhaps a bit too liberally: We might read about illness or lost love, shipwrecks or close encounters, and find the term is as close as we can get to describing our … Read more
