What happened to German-Americans?

It’s the first day of autumn, the time for pumpkin spice lattes everywhere you look. And Oktoberfest. But aside from that festival, there’s not much German culture celebrated in the U.S., according to the New York Times. Indeed, with approximately 46...

The Second Great Shift

We Americans live in interesting times. It’s been fifty years since the Voting Rights Act was passed, and fifty years since the infamous Watts riots in Los Angeles; fifty years have gone by since the mid-point of the “decade that changed everything” – the 1960s....

The GOP’s New Latino Problem: Trump

Remember back in 2012, when Barack Obama won re-election and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, captured an anemic share of the Latino vote? The Republican national party did a post-mortem on what went wrong, and came up with a must-do prescription: reach out to...