Politics

Backing a candidate doesn’t mean you think he or she is the best person for the job. It also doesn’t mean those who don’t support your candidate are evil.

So close, yet so far.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has released a TV ad in Nevada which attempts to depict her as a defender of immigrant families. But another video shows otherwise.

From his push to bury Vermont’s nuclear waste near the Mexican border, to his refusal to consider reparations for blacks, Bernie Sanders’s actions prove he’s no revolutionary.

  Last Monday night at exactly 9:30 pm EST everyone in America skipped a heartbeat while witnessing an epic performance at the Grammys. Introduced by our political humorist lord and savior, Stephen Colbert, everyone enjoyed the opening number, “Alexander Hamilton” of the Broadway musical Hamilton. A few 1,200  guests witnessed it live, at the Richard […]

Journalist Maria Esquinca visits the border fence in southern New Mexico and witnesses a daily scene of sad desperation.

Born in the Dominican Republic, Rafael has sat in a Michigan prison cell for the past 22 years for minor, non-violent drug offenses. He’s a victim of the war on drugs, and it’s time he came home.

A people’s history of Puerto Rico’s longtime economic, fiscal and political crises.

In a new full-length documentary, Abby Martin of ‘The Empire Files’ examines the not-so-secret war against migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hillary Clinton can bash Bernie Sanders for voting against the 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill if she wants, but I would’ve voted against it, too.

“If we were in Mexico, if we were in Cuba, we’d do the debate in Spanish.”

 Presents: Latino Rebels Town Hall Mixer: Latino Vote 2016 Clearly, it’s overdue for our #RebeldesNation to gather around and have a lively conversation. Our Latino Rebels Town Hall Mixer, presented by our friends at The New York Times Latino Network filled up in less than 24 hours! To that, add the numerous emails we’ve received […]

A recap of which campaigns have hired on which Latino organizers, and which Latino politicians and celebrities have made endorsements so far.

“Free Puerto Rico so she can solve the problem of her crushing debt without being handcuffed by Congress, its distant and inattentive colonial master.”

After Michelle Alexander’s piece in the Nation on why blacks shouldn’t vote for Hillary, it’s important to outline why Latinos shouldn’t either.

So is it or isn’t it?

While undocumented parents are allowed to volunteer in Philadelphia schools, those in Pittsburgh aren’t afforded the same rights.

How both Cuban-American senators are trying to win the Republican nomination by downplaying their Latino immigrant identities, and how that should hurt them in the general election.

“It was a party.”

Both groups were forced to release statements after a mitú host uses a derogatory term to describe former secretary of State and current Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

If we start kicking people out because they don’t match our stale ideas of what makes a Latino, then soon enough there won’t be any Latinos left.