This open letter to John McCain and Jeff Flake was both touching and disturbing in a number of ways: Thursday night I heard a banging knock at the door. I looked through the window and immigration agents asked me to open the door, conducting an...
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President Obama is proposing quite an expansive set of gun control legislation. It's very impressive and it'll be interesting to see whether it can past. In a sense, this will.
Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a.
If John O'Sullivan and Jonah Goldberg have anything to say about it, Republicans are certainly about the turn the corner in attracting non-whites: “I see that the way we will get the Hispanics and the other groups, the Asians, as part of the Republican Coalition...
One of my favorite things about American racism is that the nation's commitment to white supremacy has both encouraged imperialist wars of conquest and then horrifying the racial sensitivities of.
Barack Obama won Cuban-Americans in Florida, 49-47.
I am quite happy that President Obama has created the César Chávez National Monument. Although we are in a moment of much needed Chávez revisionism that begins to take apart the hagiography that plagued early literature on the United Farm Workers, he is still the...
On September 2, 1885, white miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town's entire Chinese community. Whites killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre,.
On August 23, 1927, the state of Massachusetts executed two Italian immigrant anarchists by the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for the murder of two men in a.
On August 4, 1942, the United States and Mexico made an agreement to deliver contract Mexican labor to American farmers in order to serve as cheap replacement labor during World War II. While the Bracero Program helped fill the labor shortages, it also opened up...
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of.
Jamelle Bouie has an excellent article arguing that progressives' dreams of a demographic majority with the rise of the Latino population is a chimera. Progressives have a vision that endless.