Steve Cobble, Joe Velasquez, The Nation. November 20, 2008. Latinos backed Obama by a 2-to-1 margin on election day and could be the biggest force behind a longterm, center-left political realignment.
Peter Costantini, IPS News. November 12, 2008. Many Latinos are angry at Republicans for pushing for the criminalization and mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Annette Fuentes, New America Media. November 3, 2008. As the Cuban exile community ages, the Republican stronghold county is turning Democratic according to a poll of early voters.
Randy Shaw, AlterNet. October 1, 2008. For the first time in U.S. history, Latino voters could play a decisive role in a presidential election this year.
Aswini Anburajan, Feet in 2 Worlds AlterNet: PEEK. July 14, 2008. The GOP's hard-line approach to immigration may be souring a key constituency on the Republican brand.
John Nichols, Roberto Lovato, TheNation.com and Of America. July 10, 2008. Obama votes like a Republican on FISA and backs off from Iraq, keeping corporate America happy.
Ali Gharib, AlterNet. May 23, 2008. By poisoning the public discourse with disinformation, right-wing talkers improve their ratings while leaving us far from fixing a broken system.
Roberto Lovato, The Nation. May 15, 2008. Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. May 9, 2008. Latinos in the south are living in an environment resembling the plight of African Americans living under Jim Crow.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. May 5, 2008. Cinco de Mayo has become a recruiting ground for a military struggling to sustain troop levels.
Roberto Lovato, AlterNet. January 18, 2008. The actions of three key Latino government officials may determine whether the torture tape investigation reaches the White House.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. October 22, 2007. Civil rights attorneys say the DOJ has turned away from suing on behalf of minority voters that tend to support Democrats.
Marc Cooper, AlterNet: PEEK. September 10, 2007. Marc Cooper: Almost everything about it was a dud, rendering the entire exercise little more than a gimmick.
Roberto Lovato, New America Media. September 4, 2007. Gonzales loved to tell the story of his rise out of poverty -- a Latino version of the American dream. But it is that same dream that he and his backers helped destroy for many Americans.
Marisa Treviño, AlterNet: PEEK. August 28, 2007. Marisa Treviño: Gonzo was "one of the most influential Hispanic officials in the history of United States government," and he knew how to lick the hand that fed him.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. June 22, 2007. The idea that illegal immigration is a threat to blacks has accomplished one thing for sure -- further polarizing blacks and Latinos.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 14, 2007. Steven Reynolds: The Republican Party desperately wants to win Latino votes but they seem to have no idea how to avoid alienating the Latino community with their immigration antics.
Rory O'Connor, AlterNet. April 13, 2007. Bowing to pressure, Ken Burns decided to amend his new PBS documentary about World War I that did not include Latinos. Let's hope PBS now amends their decision-making process.
