President Donald Trump often portrays Mexico as a disastrous country overrun by drug cartels and “bad hombres.” But a newly released global ranking of life satisfaction tells a different story: Mexicans report being significantly happier than Americans. The 2026 World Happiness Ranking, coordinated by the University of Oxford, is considered the gold standard of global life-satisfaction studies. It’s largely based on a Gallup poll asking people in 147 countries how close they feel to living their “best possible life,” on a scale from 0 to 10. This year, as in the past eight years, Finland ranked No. 1 as the...