Is “Newt’s World” Selling Snake Oil?

I was wondering what he was up to. It’s just my natural journalist’s reaction, you can call it cynicism, I won’t debate the point. But when Newt Gingrich launched his […]

Latinos are going to be big in the Census, as we’ve reported, but one writer says this is irrelevant. Miguel Perez writes that, every time the Census comes out the […]

Rubén Salazar was a Latino journalist in Los Angeles who was a loud critic of institutions that mistreated Latinos in that area and, mysteriously, in 1970 he was hit in […]

Sylvia Mendez, the subject of what’s commonly called the “Latino version” of the Brown vs. Board of Education case in California, was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack […]

Tan Nguyen ran as a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006 against then-incumbent Democrat Loretta Sanchez, and was just sentenced to a year and a day in […]

Because we promised to keep an eye on it for you, here’s a quick look at the latest immigration nonsense coming from Arizona. The Arizona Republic reports: The Senate Judiciary […]

We’ve been following this story since the beginning of the trial; last week the jury went home with out returning a verdict. So today we were monitoring the webs for […]

Finally, someone in the national, legacy, press is paying attention to this. Not that attention from a traditional news organization is needed to legitimize a story, but it’s about time. […]

Sigh. Big sigh. Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey, a Republican, recently visited the border on a fact-finding mission (to make sure it’s there, or what?) with other politicos to check out […]

Deciding what “race” means in the U.S. is a long and storied history, books, dissertations, films, documentaries, poems, etc. have covered the subject, but now The New York Times takes […]