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Eat it, Ms. Coulter: “Latinos are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to apply for unemployment insurance benefits or to receive them once they apply, according to the study published in the Monthly Labor Review and publicized in a briefing by the National Employment Law Project. Based on the 2005 supplement of the Current Population Survey Read More
In Mexico — as with much of Latin America — power follows power, and after what must’ve felt like 12 long years, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is back in Los Pinos. Enrique Peña Nieto, the 46-year-old former governor of the state of Mexico, was inaugurated on the first of December amid massive protests both Read More
It’s beginning to look a lot like Spend-mas: As Brad Tuttle over at Time writes: “The retail research firm ShopperTrak estimates that shoppers spent $11.2 billion at physical stores on Black Friday. That represents a 1.8% decline from Black Friday of 2011. Does this mean that the importance of Black Friday to retailers is also Read More
Congratulations to President Barack Hussein Obama on his less than triumphant victory in his reelection. Obama secured a second term but without a national mandate, given how close he came to losing the popular vote. And he knows this very well. In 2008, he won the presidency by 10 million votes — or the combined Read More
Election Day is finally here. We must prepare ourselves for one of two likely scenarios: first, that we’ll be living in a Romney America for the next four years, and second, that we’ll be stuck in an Obama America for the next four years. I say “stuck” because Obama himself is stuck in an Obama Read More
Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack H. Obama held their third and final presidential debate last week in Florida, and despite expectations that it would be a major bloodbath, the debate proved to be one of style more than anything else. As the debate went on it was evident Romney chose not to lower himself Read More
President Obama has won the endorsement of La Opinión, the country’s largest Spanish-language newspaper. What choice did the paper have, though, when less than one in four Latinos support the Republican challenger? Yet, what’s surprising about the endorsement, and the reason I mention it at all, is the way in which the editors chose to Read More
In the next hour or so, I’ll head over to my polling place and vote. The candidates have been campaigning for months now — unless you go by Paul Ryan’s stopwatch — and I’ve heard enough to know which man I prefer steering the nation for the next four years. I doubt there are any Read More
President Barack H. Obama and Governor Mitt Romney faced off against one another Tuesday evening for their second presidential debate in a town hall forum that touched upon both domestic and foreign policy issues. From the get-go, Obama appeared relaxed but struggled to catch up to Romney as the debate went on, as the former Read More
The second of three presidential debates was held at Long Island’s Hofstra University last night, and wouldn’t you know it, President Obama actually showed up this time. He was quick on his feet and quick with his tongue — wholly unlike the first encounter. The president called his challenger out on his lies. He got Read More