On January 18th, NPR aired an interview with John Hupenthal the Superintendent of Arizona Public Instruction and the author of a state law banning ethnic studies programs. According to Hupenthal, the law was conceived, in part, because of the "failure of the Tucson Unified School District to provide a good...

Recently I published an opinion piece that explained, in somewhat emotional terms I suppose, the importance that my daughter's American Girl doll, Josefina, has to our family and the relief we felt when we discovered that American Girl has a doll hospital that fixes broken dolls. The...

Two days ago, I was sitting in my bedroom working when I heard my youngest daughter, Isabela, literally burst into tears. Since I hadn't heard the tell-tale thud, I figured she hadn't hurt herself, and my first assumption was that her little brother was somehow responsible. I ran into the...

It was big news, but you might have missed it, what with the battle over health care, the parade of foolishness in Arizona and BP's oil "spill" in the Gulf. So, just in case you did miss it: the Duggar family recently had their 19th child. That's right, their 19th...

I would like to open by stating unequivocally that I believe CNN's heart is in the proverbial right place in their attempts to document the lives of Latinos living in the U.S. I say this, however, while acknowledging that the advertisements leading up to the debut this week might easily...