How Phil Ponce’s questioning of Chuy Garcia reveals Latino elitism

*There’s been a loud backlash concerning the recent Chicago Mayoral debate. Candidates Chuy Garcia and Rahm Emanuel squared off in a televised debate, but the attention hasn’t been on the […]

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco So much to dig through after yesterday’s news of corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez: We’ll start with a piece in The Atlantic. David Graham follows […]

*Fourteen counts of corruption against Sen. Menendez. It’s expected that the Florida Doctor implicated in the corruption, Salomon Melgen, will be indicted as well. VL By Paul Kane and Mike […]

*This has been a recurring theme recently. It came to a head a few weeks ago with the East Austin piñata store story. The owners and their business were allegedly […]

*An update on the Antonio Zambrano Montes shooting – not so much about proceedings or court actions, or charges against police officers. This is about a question many of us […]

By Dr. Henry Flores, NewsTaco I’ve been watching the current debate around whether the State of Texas should allow the confederate battle flag symbol to be imprinted on the state’s […]

*There’s a lot of praise for Cesar Chavez and his legacy in this piece, it’s well-intentioned and well received. It proves that concern for the environment is not new to […]

*There’s valuable information here. Put it in your back pocket for discussion, email your politicians about it, use it to make decisions: “As non-Hispanic Baby Boomers are retiring, young, U.S. born […]

*Octavio Paz was born 101 years ago today. This is a wonderful interview. VL Interviewed by Alfred MacAandrew, The Paris Review Though small in stature and well into his seventies, […]

*What I like about these studies is that they’re so anti-internet. They’re deliberate, slow in their process (the 2014 voting numbers are just now being assessed) detached from immediate headlines […]