Racial disparity in the ER

Without more information, it’s hard to know what to make of a study that shows Black kids are less likely to get pain meds in the ER than White kids. From NBC News: The researchers used national survey data from 2003 to 2010, covering more than 900,000 children...

Is race preference in dating really racism?

According to a new study, it is. The study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior entitled “Is Sexual Racism Really Racism?” took a look at gay and bisexual men and their dating preferences and found results that could have implications for the general public. The...

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...

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...