Ruben Navarrette

GOP Hispanic Conference Highlights Deep Denial on Immigration

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Proposition 187, Ruben Navarrette, Jeff Sessions, Immigration, Lamar Smith, Hispanics, Hispanic Leadership Network, Steve King, Immigration Reform, Latino Voters, Sb 1070, Alex Castellanos, Sensenbrenner Bill, Jeb Bush, Immigration Policy, 14th Amendment, Elton Gallegly, Politics News
Frank Sharry

Letting our immigration debate spiral even further away from real solutions would be a disaster, not just for the Republican Party, but for our nation.

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Simpson's Program, Not Social Security, Victimizes the Young

Merton and Joan Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, Fiscal Commission, Senator Simpson, Social Security Benefits for Young People, Social Security Benefits, Young Workers, Ruben Navarrette, Alan Simpson, Politics News
Merton and Joan Bernstein

Does he really mean to say that, in our working years, we help pay for the modest Social Security benefits received by the parents who fed, clothed, educated and housed us? What perfidy. What selfishness.

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Why Cesar Chavez Would Support Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, United Farm Workers of America, Cesar Chavez, Ruben Navarrette, Agricultural, Hispanic, Nclr, Agjobs, Latino, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Media, Legacy, Farmworkers, Civil Rights, Jr. Janet MurguíA, Politics News
Janet Murguía

Cesar Chavez shined a national spotlight on the depressed wages and unbearable working conditions experienced by agricultural laborers in the 1960s. Still, today, too many farmworkers face similar conditions.

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When Comedy Meets Workplace Diversity

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abercrombie & Fitch, Insensitivity, Business, Workplace, Comedy, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Ruben Navarrette, Workplace Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, George Lopez, N-Word, Comedy Central, Stand-Up Comedy, Dave Chappelle, Workplace Taboos, Entertainment News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

The same slurs, epithets, and offensive language that comics use to get laughs can create disrespect in the workplace, school and in other social settings.

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CNN's Navarrette Gets Iran Wrong

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Ruben Navarrette, Cnn, Obama, cnn.com, Barack Obama, Stephen Kinzer, Sanjeev Bery, Eisenhower, Iranian Democracy, Cia, Ayatollah Khomeini, All the Shah's Men, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, British Colonialism, Iran Protests, Reza Pahlavi, Decolonization, Britain in Iran, John Kerry, Iran Election, Shah of Iran, Operation Ajax, Savak, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ahmadinejad, Dwight Eisenhower, Mossadegh, Navarrette, Media, Shah, Kerry, Khomeini, Bery, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.

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What Obama's Approach to Hispanic Issues Says About His Leadership

Daniel Cubias | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Immigration Reform, Ruben Navarrette, Scrubs, Fidel Castro, Mexico, Amnesty, Immigration, Hispanics, Barack Obama, Cuba, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

It's reassuring that Obama hasn't forgotten how millions of Latinos set high expectations for his administration.

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