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...

“As Mexican as we want to be.”

Gentrification has gotten a bad rap, with the term akin to “wealthy whites pushing out long-term residents of color and driving up rents.” In traditionally Latino Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, younger Latinos don’t have quite the same view about...

More U.S. Hispanics now speak English

  This is not a surprise, but it’s nice to see this trend validated by statistics. A strong majority of U.S. Hispanics speak English or are bilingual, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2013 National Survey of Latinos. Hispanics in the...