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Would impeaching Trump restore the rule of law? Lessons from Latin America
By Rachel E. Bowen The Conversation Some Americans and members of Congress have called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. What happens after a president is impeached? The vice president...
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More than 500 attend 4th annual ‘Play-In for Climate Change’
By Paige Wolf Moms Clean Air Force Our train into DC from Philadelphia was 90 minutes late for the annual Play-In for Climate Action. As we waited for the light to change at a crosswalk we noticed two...
View ArticleArizona State Steps Up Game on Studying Latinos’ Political Engagement
Latino Ed Beat Arizona State University, in an effort to break new ground around the engagement of Latinos in the political process, has created a new chair on the topic and hired a top political...
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A call for U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President Palomarez to resign
By Mario Solis Marich ncluido In the movie Casablanca there is a scene in which the local police leader and squishy arm of the Nazi regime, Captain Luis Renault, shuts down “Ricks Cafe Americain”....
View ArticleDHS Memorandum outlines steps to be taken with DACA recipients
LatinaLista — The following is the Memorandum sent by Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke announcing the steps going forward with the DACA program. Rescission of the June 15,...
View ArticleOpen letter to Trump & Congress: Where is the assistance for Hurricane...
By Rob Moore and Adrianna Quintero ncluido AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AND CONGRESS Our nation has been rocked by three catastrophic hurricanes over the past five weeks. This rash of disasters...
View ArticleAnother senator reaches his moral limit supporting a divisive president
LatinaLista — Another senator who has reached his moral limit in supporting a presidency seen as dividing the country, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake delivered a heartfelt resignation that calls out fellow...
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Why Puerto Rico ‘doesn’t count’ to the US government
By Jay L. Zagorsky The Conversation Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September, destroying homes, crops and communications. Many weeks later, power has been restored to fewer than 20...
View ArticleGuest Voz: Can Republicans Survive
By Raoul Lowery Contreras ncluido The Republican Party today is not the same as when it won with President George W. Bush. In Texas, 50 percent of Hispanics voted for George W. Bush for governor and...
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Study: 1 in 4 Latino Kids Have an Undocumented Immigrant Parent
By Eric Moreno Salud America Nearly 94% of the 18 million Latino kids living in the United States today were born here. Their moms and dads are a different story. About half of Latino kids have at...
View ArticleCrowdfunding campaign seeks to create videos teaching kids & adults how to...
LatinaLista — When it comes to fake news, there’s no bigger perpetrator, unfortunately, than our own president Donald Trump. His latest egregious spread of fake news is his retweeting, and subsequent...
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3 myths about the poor that Republicans are using to support slashing US...
By Michele Gilman The Conversation Republicans continue to use long-debunked myths about the poor as they defend lower taxes for the rich and deep cuts to the social safety netto pay for them. In so...
View Article52 Harmful Acts in 52 Weeks: How the Trump Administration Hurt Communities of...
By Danyelle Solomon and Connor Maxwell ncluido One year ago, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. During his victory speech, he promised to “bind the wounds of...
View Article5 must-do resolutions to prepare for an uncertain 2018
By Marisa Treviño ncluido We are fast approaching February. A month, clinical psychologists say, is when 80 percent of us give up on the good intentions we pledged to improve ourselves in the new year....
View ArticleColombian police on active patrol for — lying politicians!
LatinaLista — Over the last several decades, Colombia has weathered a spate of bad publicity. Whether it was their infamous drug cartel (Pablo Escobar) history or its decades-long civil war, or the...
View ArticleMental health only one part of bigger problem US has with school shootings
LatinaLista — It’s not even March yet and the latest act of senseless violence, that happened in Parkland, Florida and took 17 precious lives yesterday, is already the 18th school shooting of 2018....
View ArticleSurvey: Americans think lawmakers ignore public opinion
By Melissa De Witte Futurity In an era of sharp disagreements between Democrats and Republicans, there is one thing Americans can agree on: They believe that elected officials are not paying enough...
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Female presidents don’t always help women while in office, study in Latin...
By Merike Blofield, Christina Ewig & Jennifer M. Piscopo The Conversation When Michelle Bachelet steps down as Chile’s president on March 11, she will bring to a close not just her own...
View ArticleStudy reveals new national pastime — activism!
LatinaLista — Activism used to be a lonely club. Not to mention, a dirty word. Though among conservative circles, it’s still as distasteful a word as “liberal.” But unless you were a hardcore activist...
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Rethinking reporting on polls in time for midterm elections
By Stephen Utych The Conversation The Associated Press, a nonprofit newswire published by 1,300 papers and broadcasters, has updated its stylebook to clarify that “poll results that seek to preview the...
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