Latinos in Congress: Diverse, Yet Bundled Together

Interesting piece in the Houston Chronicle about the balance of Latino numbers and power in the US congress. It’s thorough enough: there are more Latinos in congress today than there […]

Here’s something to pack in your bag of practical trivia (although the word “trivia” tends to de-emphasize the numbers). This was posted in the sfgate.com, the San Fracisco Chronicle’s website; […]

Apparently, and according to a Fox News Latino post, the new chairman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spent his childhood reading the US […]

That’s right, the credited hero that emerged from the deadly attack in Tuscon is Latino and gay. The questions you ask coming out of this revelation can sort a lot […]

El cine es muy subjetivo. Cada persona le da distinta interpretación a cada escena. Por eso por mas de que diga que traté de ser totalmente objetiva, mentiría. De alguna […]

Now that the reading of the Constitution is done the members of the US Congress can get to the work of little else. I’m not criticizing the political theater of […]

I’ve been having very interesting conversations/exchanges over the interwebs recently, having to do mostly with Latinos and political power. Maybe it’s the anticipation of the drilled-down Census numbers that are […]

Televisa, Mexico’s behemoth broadcasting company, had live helicopter-view images of the Tepito marked in Mexico City last night, at midnight. Hundreds of thousands of people packed block after block of […]

This may seem like hanky-using, protruding-pinky-finger kinda’ stuff, but it’s bothering some people. A recent New York Times Book Review, in a collection of essays called “Why Criticism Matters,” extolled […]

Look who popped-up as the Wall Street Journal‘s number one person to watch in 2011: Jeb Bush, son and brother of President’s George and George. Jeb, they say, is worth […]