Opinion

Playas De Tijuana Residents Target Caravan: A Pathetic Assault on Humanity by a Bunch of Cowards (OPINION)

The call is out to surround the Caravan with love. Love overcomes hate.

  • Nov 16, 2018
  • 9:30 AM

The Gun Control Conversation Can’t End, Because Families’ Pain Never Does (OPINION)

You push that pain away until something reminds you—a birthday, an anniversary or a holiday. All the pain comes rushing back just like before.

  • Nov 14, 2018
  • 8:34 AM

Mijente Statement on MULTIPLE Arrests of Peaceful Protestors at GA State Capitol (OPINION)

“Georgia is well-known for some of the worst voter suppression efforts in the country, and today’s arrests of peaceful protestors are a prime example of this extreme intimidation of people of color.”

  • Nov 13, 2018
  • 5:00 PM

Nevada Didn’t Win With a Blue Wave: It Won With a Latino, Immigrant and Working Class Wave (OPINION)

In early 2018, we doubled down on our theory that prioritizing conversations with infrequent voters was the winning formula.

  • Nov 13, 2018
  • 6:12 AM

Democracy Is at Risk in Latin America and the Far Right Is Moving in: Here’s How It Went Wrong for the Left (OPINION)

The risk is that democracy is failing many, increasingly normalizing the demonization of the “other.”

  • Nov 9, 2018
  • 12:03 PM

The Truth About Immigration: Crime (OPINION)

Many armchair experts have been espousing a lot of misinformed rhetoric regarding migrants based on the divisive language used by Donald Trump. I’m here to clear the air with facts that some of them may not like.

  • Nov 9, 2018
  • 11:26 AM

‘We Know God Will Help Us. We’re Puerto Ricans.’ (OPINION)

A year after María, the U.S. government must rebuild Puerto Rico, as befits its stature as a U.S. territory and its residents as American citizens.

  • Nov 8, 2018
  • 8:37 AM

Visual Tropes of Migration Tell Predictable But Misleading Stories (OPINION)

The “caravan” of thousands of Central Americans currently traveling through Mexico has become a touchpoint for U.S. President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.

  • Nov 6, 2018
  • 2:13 PM

How Beto Did It (OPINION)

I am more comfortable talking about this the day of the election because there is little the Ted Cruz campaign can do to respond.

  • Nov 6, 2018
  • 10:56 AM

The Truth About Immigration: Economics (OPINION)

Many armchair experts have been espousing a lot of misinformed rhetoric regarding migrants based on the divisive language used by our current President, Donald Trump. I’m here to clear the air with facts that some of them may not like.

  • Nov 6, 2018
  • 9:45 AM

Socialism and the Ballot (OPINION)

Under such pressure, what choice do voters have but to vote for candidates sympathetic to the idea of workers controlling the government, and the government controlling the economy?

  • Nov 6, 2018
  • 9:21 AM

OPINION: Republicans Deserve to Lose

The GOP has done little to rein in Trump’s worst instincts.

  • Nov 5, 2018
  • 8:21 AM

Pittsburgh: The Dead End of Racism Tolerance

The city is trying to heal and it deserves to heal. However, it should learn how to eradicate any practice that re-centers white people in conversations about racism.

  • Nov 3, 2018
  • 10:38 AM

Define American Welcomes a Real Conversation About Citizenship

The President cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order – and his intentions for claiming that he can are purely political.

  • Nov 1, 2018
  • 11:32 AM

This Is What Voter Suppression Feels Like

Now, more than ever, we cannot let our voices be silenced.

  • Nov 1, 2018
  • 9:17 AM

Why Does the Migrant Caravan Exist? And How Did It Come to Be? (OPINION)

Migrants are traveling together for their own protection, to avoid having to pay a smuggler and to minimize the risk of crime.

  • Oct 31, 2018
  • 3:56 PM

LA Times Publishes Completely Different Political Endorsements in English and Spanish (OPINION)

Why is the same newspaper offering different endorsements?

  • Oct 31, 2018
  • 9:13 AM

Death, Día de los Muertos, and an Invitation (OPINION)

I have no childhood memories of Día de los Muertos. Neither my American born father nor my Mexican-born mother were very big on tradition.

  • Oct 31, 2018
  • 8:10 AM

Mijente Statement on Trump’s Proposed Ban on Birthright Citizenship (OPINION)

“From Louisville to Pittsburgh to Tornillo”

  • Oct 30, 2018
  • 10:05 PM

Black and Brown Unite Behind the Power of Laughter (OPINION)

Humor has deep philosophical meaning and liberating potential.

  • Oct 25, 2018
  • 6:18 PM

Democrats Can’t Count on Latinos to Swing the Midterms (OPINION)

This vote has always been more promise than reality.

  • Oct 24, 2018
  • 1:05 PM

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