It's pretty typical that Drudge would invoke the fear of salsa overtaking ketchup as America's favorite condiment in his culture wars. Personally, I say Viva Reconquista. If ketchup is the condiment of the Tea Party, it just confirms everything I already think about it. So...
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César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read.
We will have a much better country now that the administration has prioritized bombing Syria for reasons no one can adequately explain instead of fighting for the millions of undocumented.
Glad to see the Mexican immigrants killed in a 1948 plane crash near Fresno on an federal plane deporting them back to Mexico finally remembered with a proper gravestone. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it. I don't know if he ever actually recorded it,...
Jeff La Noue has an interesting piece about how to "fix" the Rust Belt cities. Using Toronto as a model, he asks why the Canadian side of the Great Lakes.
I have to admit that I was optimistic that meaningful immigration reform would happen in 2013. Although I didn't think I could underestimate the Republican commitment to white supremacy, I.
Your daily American racist.
I've spent July in southern Mexico. The region today is defined by immigration. Traveling to one of the towns my wife studies, way up in the Mixteca, an indigenous and.
Good that John McCain is so giddy about creating what he calls the most militarized border since the Berlin Wall with the immigration bill. I mean, that turned out pretty.
Really, it can't happen fast enough. Deaths exceeded births among non-Hispanic white Americans for the first time in at least a century, according to new census data, a benchmark that heralds profound demographic change. The disparity was tiny — only about 12,000 — and was...
Esther Cepeda defends Whole Foods disciplining two Spanish-speaking workers violating its English-only policy while on the job in a very special way. But say they were. What’s the problem? Not.
Arguments against immigration reform are usually pretty bad. Racism is at the heart of most, sometimes couched in dog whistles like "culture" or the Republican "they won't vote for us.