In a sense, every Latino ballplayer who happens to play for a ball club that makes it to the World Series is trying to live up to the image of Roberto Clemente.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., gave people who are eager for immigration reform yet another promise that action will be taken by Congress come 2010.
The Rayburn Building will be the scene of a program meant to try to persuade people to put aside partisan politics and approve something resembling a reform in the way medical care is paid for. Photograph provided by The Architect of the Capitol. 
I spent an hour Thursday night watching PBS and their broadcast of the “Fiesta Latina” that was staged on the south lawn of the White House, where Barack Obama staged a concert featuring musicians of the various genres that get lumped by Anglo America as “Latino [...]
My home state is about to become yet the latest place where the xenophobes will contend that the world is going to hell in a hand basket, all because some of us would like a more accurate recounting of history.
It is the reality of professional soccer in the United States that some of the sport’s most diehard fans who live in this country don’t pay much attention to its professional league.
Every person who envisions themselves a political pundit at heart is going to feel the need to throw in their “two cents” with regard to an event of deep, significant meaning that will take place this weekend in the Bronx.
It appears he is spared for now, but some people were worked up recently that officials in Texas would start reconfiguring the social studies curriculum taught in the Lone Star State’s schools so as to exclude mentions of Cesar Chavez.
I still remember the time an abortion rights activist tried explaining to me how there are certain issues where “right” and “wrong” are absolute and how trying to reach a mid-ground is pointless.
I have listened to a day’s worth of indignation and praise (in some quarters) for the boorish behavior of Rep. Addison G. “Joe” Wilson, R-S.C., during President Barack Obama’s attempt to explain to Congress his health care reform measure and how it is ridiculous to think [...]
I keep reading these news stories about the proposed boycott of the 2010 Census, yet I have to confess that I have never actually met a real person who believes such nonsense would work.
Call it some positive press – the Arizona Republic newspaper reported Monday that President Barack Obama has set a record for the number of Latinos appointed to federal government positions in his first year.
In terms of the big picture, Bill Richardson ought to feel relieved.
At a time when the federal government is behaving in a squeamish manner with regards to reform of the nation’s immigration laws, the Senate has lost one of the few people who didn’t behave in a manner that made us suspect that he wished the issue [...]
Illinois is about to become a hotspot for the nativist element, particularly those people with a particularly irrational hang-up with regard to all things Mexico.
I’m not about to say I comprehend the logic of the way people cast votes for U.S. president in Texas.
In my duties for a daily newspaper in the Chicago suburbs, I spent a couple of hours last weekend covering yet another rally giving the opponents of health care reform a chance to express their rants.
Texas political people have been known to come up with some wild-eyed rhetoric, but leave it to the current governor to try his best to top them all.
Is Miguel Estrada destined to become a hero to the social conservatives of our country for his failed bid for a post in the federal judiciary?
I’m feeling a touch of sympathy for our ethnic brethren from Cuba.
There aren’t very many members of the U.S. Senate of Latino ethnic backgrounds, so the loss of any one of them has a significant impact toward the cause of increased political empowerment for the fast-growing segment of the U.S. population.
I’m not sure how much attention we should really be paying to the gathering of the trio of North American leaders taking place Monday in Mexico.
Why was it so interesting to so many Latinos – even those of us who do not share Sonia Sotomayor’s specific ethnic background from Puerto Rico – that she become a member of the Supreme Court of the United States?
Thursday is likely the day on which Sonia Sotomayor goes from being a Supreme Court nominee to being a Supreme Court justice.
It’s all for show, so they can get re-elected.
It is laughable to learn that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in recent days has said he thinks his Republican Party colleagues need to reach out to the growing Latino population.
So who had to look the other way and hold their nose in Havana earlier this week when a batch of “Hollywood” type film stars arrived with Bill Murray in tow?
It seems to have been a common theme expressed by President Barack Obama’s cabinet members who appeared at the National Council of La Raza’s recent convention held in Chicago – we need more Latinos in the professions.
Rep. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., wants to run for the U.S. Senate, and he’s the guy who a few years ago said that this country should be supp
