By Kelly Lytle Hernandez The Conversation On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed that if he was elected president, he would resurrect Operation Wetback of 1954. Operation Wetback, the story goes, was the single largest deportation campaign in U.S. history, resulting…
By Gerry Everding Futurity As House Republicans labor to define a new plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, often called “Obamacare,” public support for the 2010 legislation is at an all-time high, according to a national survey…
By Zach Williams Juvenile Justice Information Exchange NEW YORK — After 18 days on a bus to the Mexican city of Reynosa, five days walking through the desert to Texas and two months living in Long Island, the fate…
By Katy Farber Moms Clean Air Force When you drive along an interstate, or through a big city, how many times do you see local schools right up near the highway? Probably often. Sometimes you can’t see them, because…
By Musa al-Gharbi The Conversation In 2008, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama outperformed his predecessors John Kerry and Al Gore with virtually every single demographic group, handily defeating his Republican rival John McCain. This success spread to down-ballot races as well….
By Mari Jensen Futurity Warming in the 21st century has reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet—about the amount of water used by 2 million people for one year, a new study warns. “This paper is…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Smoking is a tough opponent to beat. Quitxt is a free texting service in English or Spanish that turns your mobile phone into a personal coach to help you quit smoking, using interactive and entertaining texts,…
By Joseph M. de Leon LatinaLista Growing up in a rural Texas border town called Zapata during the Great Depression gave Gus Garcia the tenacity he needed to overcome poverty, language barriers, and racial prejudice to help transform…
By Daniel H. Muñoz LatinaLista On Jan. 25, five days after taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump issued executive order; “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.” The order expanded the list of deportation…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat The level of trust that middle school students of color have for their teachers could have long-term impacts on whether or not they enroll in college, according to a new studypublished in the journal…
Marisa Treviño LatinaLista The eternal hope-on-a-stick for the Latino population has been the promise that one day Latinos would be the majority in this nation. Once that coveted “majority” status was attained, it was felt that finally Latinos would…
Ancient Origins Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,700-year-old intact tomb in Mexico where they found the skulls and other bones of twelve male adults, as well as pre-Columbian figurines and statues. Each of the figures was sculpted from fine…
By Edward Rincón LatinaLista (Editor’s Note: This column was originally published on the Texas Tribune.) Lately, it seems fashionable for politicians to jump on the campaign train to ban and punish sanctuary cities and college campuses — an idea…
By John Holland Juvenile Justice Information Exchange A wide-ranging study of youth incarceration in California outlines what it calls the debilitating effects on the health of teens, their families and society when youthful offenders are tried and sentenced as…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Of the 106 players on the Atlanta and New England NFL rosters in this weekend’s Super Bowl, only one appears to have Latino heritage—Patriots’ long snapper Joe Cardona. Only 26 of 1,696 NFL players were Latino…
By Blaine Friedlander Futurity A new way to test for a wide range of micropollutants in waterways has already turned up a nightmarish cocktail of contaminants. “Water quality monitoring is conventionally done by narrowly investigating one or a few contaminants at…
By Jesse Rhodes The Conversation President Donald Trump has “voter fraud” on the brain. Bizarrely, after winning the 2016 presidential election, Trump has raised questions about the legitimacy of his own victory by claiming that the election was tainted…
By Joseph M. de Leon Hispanic News Online Compost is nature’s way of recycling dead plants and animals into new life. You can easily make your own compost for a healthier, more resilient garden. Soil anchors plants…
By Ronnie Citron-Fink Moms Clean Air Force The Trump administration has vowed to put the health of families in danger by implementing policies that undermine our right to clean air. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Trump has…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Significant differences in heart disease death rates exist among the three largest U.S. Latino subgroups, suggesting that combining these groups could endanger health for all Latinos, according to new data, Healio reports. The heart disease study examined death data…
By Alexis Blue Futurity Using the largest set of radiocarbon dates ever obtained from a single Maya site, archaeologists have developed a precise timeline that clarifies patterns leading up to two major collapses of the ancient civilization. Scientists have long…
By Molly McCluskey Juvenile Justice Information Exchange WASHINGTON — From banning conversion therapy for gay and trans youth to eliminating solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons, President Obama issued a slew of executive orders designed to protect…
By Daniel P. Franklin, Abigail Bowen & Judd Thornton The Conversation Green Party candidate Jill Stein does not see herself as a spoiler in the 2016 presidential race. Her voters, Stein claims, would not have come to the polls had she…
By Natalie Gross Latino Ed Beat President Obama has renamed the My Brother’s Keeper initiative he created to close the opportunity gaps faced by black and Latino males, hoping the new moniker will more accurately reflect its mission and increase the chances of its longevity….
By Erika Ebsworth-Goold Futurity More information about guests, not less, might help reduce racial discrimination against people who use services like Airbnb, a new study finds. “We know discrimination exists in the sharing economy,” says Dennis Zhang, assistant…
