Opinion

Hispanic Heritage Month Doesn’t Have to be Controversial (OPINION)

During Hispanic Heritage Month, our communities’ contributions throughout American history are widely ignored while voices decrying the month dominate the conversation.

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 4:24 PM

The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants in Detention Centers Must Stop Now (OPINION)

If it took a whistleblower for the public to know about these brutal hysterectomies, what else don’t we know?

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 3:56 PM

Waking Up the ‘Sleeping Giant’ Starts With Climate Change (OPINION)

A poll conducted by Climate Power 2020 in July showed that an overwhelming 77 percent of Latino voters support a message of bold climate action to fight the climate crisis.

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 11:45 AM

The Biden Campaign Still Has ‘Work to Do’ With Latinos: Will It Happen? (OPINION)

The reality is that the Biden campaign has been struggling to connect with Latino voters ever since he announced his intent to run.

  • Sep 21, 2020
  • 8:37 AM

Latinos Aren’t One Thing, We Never Were: So Why Do Every Four Years Are We Treated Like That? (OPINION)

We are large, diverse, contradictory. The country has never taken the opportunity to get to know us. Perhaps that’s why they keep asking the same stupid questions. 

  • Sep 18, 2020
  • 3:36 PM

Are Democrats Going to Let the Latino Vote Slip… Once Again? (OPINION)

It’s time to stop shaming anyone who poses constructive criticism to the Democratic Party’s outreach strategy, especially when its people of color raising the red flags.

  • Sep 17, 2020
  • 12:44 PM

Fighting GMO Corn, for Mexico’s Soul

Screams have a powerful place in Mexican history.

  • Sep 16, 2020
  • 11:59 AM

California Left in Ashes by Suburban Expansion Built on Decades of Exclusion and Criminalization of the Poor

The state’s fates have been sealed by real estate corporations and obsequious governments.

  • Sep 16, 2020
  • 10:12 AM

The Racialized Horror of Lost Children: From ‘La Llorona’ to ‘Immigration Nation’

Like all stories, the narrative of losing children depends greatly on who’s telling it.

  • Sep 15, 2020
  • 1:36 PM

An Ethnic Studies Victory in California: ¡Sí Se Puede! (OPINION)

It’s imperative that students unlearn and debunk the Eurocentric master narrative that is taught in our universities/colleges and K-12 schools.

  • Sep 11, 2020
  • 1:31 PM

The Violent History of Latin America Is ALL About Promoting Whiteness (OPINION)

A common error that the Latin American diaspora makes of itself is centering the experiences of Latinidad to the nation they are in.

  • Sep 9, 2020
  • 6:30 PM

Reports of the Republican Party’s Death Are Not Greatly Exaggerated (OPINION)

The party has cast aside many of its so-called traditional conservative values, such as federal debt reduction, smaller government, and its veneration for the U.S. Constitution.

  • Sep 9, 2020
  • 12:21 PM

The Rise of Latino Libertarians (OPINION)

What is new is the appearance of a slate of Hispanic candidates, officials, and activists in the Libertarian Party.

  • Sep 9, 2020
  • 11:18 AM

The White Latinos Are at It Again (OPINION)

WHITE LATINOS EXIST. Y’all need to stop crying.

  • Sep 5, 2020
  • 12:06 PM

President Trump Must Stop Demonizing and Dehumanizing TPS Recipients (OPINION)

Many immigrants like me are terrified that at any moment we can be separated from our families, or sent to crowded, inhumane detention centers—more dangerous than ever in the face of COVD-19.

  • Sep 4, 2020
  • 12:41 PM

White Latinos Don’t Exist, Wannabes Do (OPINION)

The hate you breed for your own culture, heritage, and belonging is the real shame in all of this.

  • Sep 2, 2020
  • 1:30 PM

Shortened Census Count Will Hurt Communities of Color

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau is having a harder time than in the past counting all Americans, and is now saying its workers will spend less time trying to count everyone.

  • Aug 31, 2020
  • 1:46 PM

Copy and Paste Colonialism (OPINION)

There’s a bigger issue here that needs to be addressed.

  • Aug 30, 2020
  • 9:12 PM

As President, Joe Biden Will Be a Strong Supporter of Puerto Rico (OPINION)

There are plenty of reasons why Biden’s record on Puerto Rico is superior to that of President Trump’s.

  • Aug 29, 2020
  • 2:01 PM

Remembering Ruben Salazar, 50 Years Later

I don’t know how to write about Ruben Salazar.

  • Aug 29, 2020
  • 12:18 PM

I Fought to Get a US Passport: Trump’s Handling of COVID-19 Has Rendered It Meaningless (OPINION)

This is the price we are paying—we are on day 165 of this crisis and there are no signs that things are getting better.

  • Aug 21, 2020
  • 12:43 PM

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