Mexicans are increasingly facing their own opioid crisis.

An OZY investigation reveals that fentanyl is part of a two-pronged crisis that’s turning Mexico — traditionally known more as a route for narcotics meant for the U.S. — into a bigger domestic market for drugs than ever before. With American authorities under President Donald Trump's administration tightening border security and cracking down on the production of illicit drugs in their territory, Mexican cartels are increasingly flooding their homeland instead with fentanyl and methamphetamine, another synthetic drug.

Why are so many French people marrying foreigners?

Nearly seven years ago to the day, I married a French man. I was 24 years old, fresh out of college, and my student visa was going to expire in a matter of months. Of course, I loved my boyfriend at the time — I had left my life in America behind for him after a whirlwind romance of just two months — but our marriage, which has since ended, was equally about the fear of me having to leave. At our wedding, I wore a flower crown. My dad flew over from the United States, and all of our friends showed up and threw rice at us as we left the courthouse. By all appearances, it was a wedding like any other, but both my new husband and I were unsure what it really meant to us. Was it just a way for me to stay? A way for us to keep dating? Or were we really making a lifelong commitment to one another?

Our situation was, apparently, not unique. In fact: Marriages between foreigners and French nationals have tripled in France since the 1970s.

Counting the terrorists out after this tactical victory would be a big mistake, warns a former CIA chief.

The killings of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his possible deputy by U.S. special operations forces in recent days are major losses for the extremists, ones that are likely to usher in a period of chaos and improvisation among ISIS fighters. But it would be a fatal mistake to assume that the deaths have destroyed or even seriously weakened the violent cause al-Baghdadi spearheaded. The proof? Important as it was to take down al-Baghdadi’s predecessor, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in 2006 and Osama Bin Laden in 2011, the ISIS variant of what they represented rose in the aftermath of their killings and carried out operations that often equaled or exceeded much of what came before.