Every time I write about the GOP's image problem with Latino voters, some conservative sends me an angry missive insisting that it's all the liberal media spreading lies. I discover that not only does the Republican Party respect Hispanics, but it has their best interests at heart. The missive usually...

As everyone knows, the Republican Party is in serious trouble with Latinos. If Mitt Romney gets any less popular with Hispanics, he'll disappear from their consciousness altogether.

The reasons for Latinos' antipathy toward the GOP include the endless insults that Republicans have lobbed at Hispanics, along...

So the Baby Boomers, as they are wont to do, are ready to take the money and run. Apparently, many older entrepreneurs will soon sell off their businesses and retire.

Well, we shouldn't worry. After all, entrepreneurialism is a cornerstone of the

Your humble coauthors stay informed of the latest trends about social media, often by attending events where bloggers, marketers, communication experts, and brands try to build mutually beneficial relationships. At these social-media watering holes, the discussion inevitably turns to the fastest-growing market in America: Latinos. Basically, everybody wants to know...

Due to unusual circumstances that I won't even get into, I found myself at a ritzy event, surrounded by wealthy individuals. I happened to be standing near the door, and I saw members of the one percent walk in.

For the most part, they were polite and just like...

Depending on whom you ask, the housing crisis is over, still going on, or entering a new and far more sinister phase.

Regardless of what happens to the housing market in the near future, we Latinos are doing our part to bolster this crucial component of the U.S....

My old neighborhood in New York City has become a bit of a yuppie den. My current neighborhood in Los Angeles is apparently being overrun by hipsters.

Can any of us escape gentrification?

As I wrote recently, Latino neighborhoods have increasingly become gentrified as white people move into...

Like many ethnic minorities, I have been accused more than once of hating white people.

But for someone who despises the white race, I am seriously guilty of fraternizing with the enemy. I don't want to get into the whole "some of my best friends" are this or...

Alicia Morga wants to know how you're feeling.

The founder and CEO of Refleta.com isn't just making small talk. Her company's iPhone app, gottaFeeling, prompts users to track their emotions, which they can share via social networks.

However, gottaFeeling is more than some narcissistic toy that...

The mythology of American cinema is ripe with tales of precocious kids who shot crude movies with their first cameras. Think of the young J.J. Abrams or the Coen Brothers, running around their backyards, directing their childhood friends to jump off garages or do a pratfall.

However, very few of...

It's difficult to find an American who doesn't know what "amigo" or "gracias" means. Eventually, those words will be considered part of English, in the same way that nobody thinks "patio," "rodeo," or "coyote" are solely Spanish.

However, there is still one area in which American culture hasn't embraced the...

Recently, I received some hate mail from a white supremacist. It's a rare, but not unprecedented occurrence.

Her sentiments were ignorant and bizarre, of course. And clearly, they in no way reflect the opinion of most Americans. I wondered, however, how many individuals would agree with one of...

By now, you've heard all about the Kansas legislator who said it was a fine idea to hire gunmen to fly around in helicopters and shoot undocumented immigrants. Republican Virgil Peck made what he calls a "joke" during a public hearing on how to control the feral-pig population...

When I was a college student, I worked at the student newspaper. I was a longhaired, hard-drinking journalist -- a Woodward and/or Bernstein in training -- who would someday expose wrongdoers and bring down corrupt powerbrokers.

Well, at least that's how I saw myself back then. It didn't quite work...

Last year I worked with a nonprofit to advocate for the passage of the DREAM Act. I knew the odds were long, and of course, the legislation ultimately didn't pass.

But I would feel better today about fighting the good fight if I hadn't known, at the time,...

Earlier this week, the United States celebrated MLK Day. For the last quarter-century, we've marked this occasion with tributes and speeches that restate ideals that shouldn't need to be restated. I'm talking about the basics: shunning bigotry, treating individuals of different backgrounds with respect, judging people by the content of...

I didn't fly anywhere for Thanksgiving. This was obviously a good thing, as incessant news reports have informed me that TSA agents are groping Americans nonstop.

Really, it appears that this has become the civil-rights issue of our time. Citizens are up in arms that their privacy...

My wife has warned me, for my own sanity, to stop torturing myself. But I can't help it.

Whenever I read a news article about immigration or the dismal economy or some other political topic, I scroll down to the Comments section to see what the theoretical average American...

Just to be clear, nobody should yell "Nazi" at people unless there are, you know, actual Nazis present.

I make this clarification not just because it's the truth, but because so many people have recently had their sensibilities offended during the arduous debate over immigration.

Judging from...

Recently, everyone's most charismatic anti-Semitic homophobe, Mel Gibson, expanded his repertoire. According to widely distributed recordings, Gibson has gone beyond disliking just gays and Jews. He also despises women, blacks, and Latinos. I'm talking about those direct threats to his ex-girlfriend and his causal dropping of both the N-word and...