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Tequila And The Theremin: A Day In The Life Of Alt.Latino

Mary Mata January 17, 2014

By Jasmine Garsd, NPR/alt.latino This week on Alt.Latino, we had a little too much fun. We started off by hanging out with Los Macuanos, a DJ trio from Tijuana who taught […]

Four Questionable Claims Obama Has Made on NSA Surveillance

Mary Mata

Joaquin Castro: Democrats are ‘pushing for full-fledged citizenship’

Mary Mata

The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Now a bipartisan gang wants to put it back together.

Mary Mata

By Dylan Matthews, The Washington Post It’s rare that you can get Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) to agree on much of anything. The former, after all, introduced […]

First Latino Nominated for Federal Bench in Eastern Washington

Mary Mata

By Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A state judge from the Tri-Cities has been nominated by President Obama to become a federal judge for Eastern Washington. Salvador Mendoza Jr. was nominated […]

Is ‘Spanglish’ Proof that English has Diluted Spanish?

Mary Mata

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson, Latin Post “Spanglish” has been called English’s assault on the Spanish language; an implementation of English in routine speech or writing of Spanish-speakers that leads to the invention of words […]

Maria Conchita Alonso Under Fire For Endorsing A Tea Party Immigration Hardliner For California Governor

Mary Mata

By Fox News Latino Maria Conchita Alonso, the Cuban-Venezuelan actress who counts as one of her best-known films “Moscow on the Hudson” with Robin Williams, is drawing controversy over a […]