Ko-Mex cuisine is a real thing

We should specify that Korean-Mexican cuisine is big in Korea, but the fact that it’s being driven by Korean-Americans here – restauranteurs like Sid Kim – made us sit up an take notice. From an interview with Kim on NBC news: Blending Mexican and...

The GOP’s new Latino problem: Trump

Remember way back to 2013, when Barack Obama had 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...

Perils of parenting while black

You may have heard about the brief sensation a video made when the recording of a black mother beating her teenage son went viral. The 50-second video, soon broadcast on CBS and CNN, was shot the day of Freddie Gray’s funeral in April, when hundreds of Baltimore...

Why is Black Lives Matter hounding Sanders?

It’s going to be a long campaign season. Bernie Sanders, the insurgent candidate for the Democratic nomination for President against the frontrunner Clinton, just had his biggest rally so far. In Seattle, 15,000 came to hear him speak, dwarfing numbers for all...