Politics

The Authority will be the governor, banker, judge, jury and prosecutor in Puerto Rico.

It’s Congress that steers the ship, and should Puerto Rico run aground, it’s Congress that decides how best to salvage it.

A fire in a Detroit suburb has claimed the lives of five Mexican immigrants who worked at a restaurant and appear to have been living in the basement of a home owned by their boss.

Trump’s defeat in Iowa may be due in no small part to Kenia Calderon, an undocumented immigrant who has been an active leader in the immigrant protests against Trump’s campaign.

Talk about fuzzy math.

Before U.S. policy led to the creation of ISIS, it helped create gang violence in Central America. Now a Senate report shows the U.S. isn’t done committing crimes against people of the region.

Over 500 years after the Spaniards invaded what we now call the Americas, is there a “correct” Spanish anymore?

If anything “ruins” Cuba, it won’t be foreign investment. It’ll be U.S. policy.

When a Peruvian newspaper began displaying half-naked women in its pages under the heading “Malcriadas,” one young woman thought of a way to turn that label on its head.

How a recent tweet in Spanish from Hillary Clinton’s campaign sparked a debate over proper language and hyper-correction.

MSNBC’s Hardball Chris Matthews performs another acrobatic foot-to-mouth faux pas last night. You heard that right. In the heels of his November 2015, claim that Cruz and Rubio should even be considered Hispanic, he dared to bash a Trumpless debate stating: “Who is going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys?” the Hardball […]

Year after year, Latinos insist on making the Latino vote mostly irrelevant. What is it about Latinos that keeps them away from the polls?

Is Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley the unfortunate victim of the lack of Hispandering by his campaign?

Two stories from the Volunteer State, where many people are refusing to voluntarily accept Latinos and LGBTs as equal citizens.

Why Latinos concerned with the environment should vote for Bernie Sanders.

“The way mainstream media’s depiction of Latinos is just very stereotypical. We are a very strong and unified culture that needs to break out of the mainstream media.”

The Central American migrant crisis is back in the news.

Workers at a Lexmark plant in Juárez, Mexico were fired a few days before Christmas after they demanded that their employer keep to a promised 35-cent per day raise.

“We knew it!” screams the independence movement in Puerto Rico. Now what remains is justice.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees is partnering with The Moth to feature the experiences of immigrants and refugees during a live storytelling event in Austin, Texas on May 4, 2016.

In a Supreme Court hearing this week, the Puerto Rico government argued that it receives its authority from the people of Puerto Rico. But the Obama administration corrected it.