Journalism

Opinion

From The New Yorker: A personal history about a childhood in Los Angeles in close proximity to an infamous assassin--and some basic lessons about prejudice and perception.

Latinos Feel the Sting of Trump’s PresidencyRight-wing agitators have been provoking angst among Latino people for decades. Now one of their ilk is President.

My piece for The New Yorker, on Latinos, Trump and "the souls of brown folk."

For The New York Times: A celebration of the "diaspora renaissance," flowering of culture from immigrant communities.

Opinion | We Need Protests. And Paintings.Immigrants can fight ignorance and hate with works of culture.

Opinion | Avoiding the Trap of Immigration PornLatinos’ lives are more than the visual clichés of deportation dramas.

A meditation on the portrayal of the modern Latino experience in U.S. mass media.

For The New Yorker, a 12,000-word excerpt from Deep Down Dark on the Copiapó mine disaster

Sixty-Nine DaysThe ordeal of the Chilean miners.

Opinion | The Spanish Lesson I Never Got at SchoolCalifornians’ approval of a ballot measure on bilingual education gives Latino kids their cultural heritage back.

On the same day Donald Trump was elected, California voters resurrected bilingual education.