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Romney Crosses the Immigration Divide

  • By
  • Tamar Jacoby,
  • New America Foundation
September 22, 2012 |

Polls show President Obama way ahead with Latinos, the nation's fastest-growing voting bloc. According to the latest Gallup figures, he leads Mitt Romney by 66% to 26% among registered Latinos, who could be the voters who make the difference in November in four of the eight must-win battleground states: Colorado, Nevada, Florida and Virginia.

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Obama and Biden's trip in the spin machine | Los Angeles Times

September 8, 2012

The problem with that calculation is that the wars are financed by deficit spending and cutting back does not produce new revenue to reduce the deficit. That point was made by, among others, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

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Bringing Out Our Inner Bear

  • By
  • Gregory Rodriguez,
  • New America Foundation
August 28, 2012 |

By all rights, I should hate coyotes. When I was 14, one ate my charming pet cat, Spike Liebowitz (sometimes known as Vasco de Gama), as if he were nothing more than a Vienna sausage.

I was heartbroken, but even at that age I knew that in suburban Los Angeles, owning an outdoor pet was tempting not just fate but the hunger of our wild neighbors. It wasn't pretty, but that's the way things were. Southern California is a coyote-eats-cat world.

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Immigration After the SB 1070 Ruling

  • By
  • Tamar Jacoby,
  • New America Foundation
June 26, 2012 |
The Supreme Court's immigration decision is a step back from the brink, leaving much less room than many expected for state immigration enforcement.
 
Although the justices blocked most provisions of Arizona's controversial 2010 policing law, they upheld the one of most concern to immigrant rights advocates: the section that requires local police to inquire about the immigration status of people they stop for other reasons and whom they suspect are in the country illegally.
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New Wave of Immigrants — A New Target Too?

  • By
  • Gregory Rodriguez,
  • New America Foundation
June 25, 2012 |
It's official! A new study by the Pew Research Center proves the old trope true: Asians are the new Jews. All those essentially positive stereotypes you've heard about — the hard work and the Tiger Moms — have made Asian Americans the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the United States. Not only that, in the last few years, Asians have overtaken Latinos as the largest group of new immigrants to the U.S.
 
This is all good news — both for Asian Americans and the United States — but the Jewish comparison has a dark side.
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Evgeny Morozov Curbs Web Enthusiasm | Los Angeles Times

June 20, 2012

Evgeny Morozov, in warning of 'iPod liberalism' at a TED conference and taking on tech giants in the New Republic and elsewhere, is a leading cyberskeptic.

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Bring Back Home Ec To Save Americans? | Los Angeles Times

June 5, 2012

Torie Bosch, editor of Slate's "Future Tense," a "citizen's guide to the future," argues that schools ought to bring back home ec as a matter of public health. Framed that way and the suggestion doesn't seem so retro. "You could make the case that home ...

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Unclear if Houla Massacre a Syria Turning Point | Los Angeles Times

May 29, 2012

The killings seemed to galvanize ordinary people around the world who had not followed the crisis as closely before, said Leila Hilal, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation.

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Immigration and the New Old Me

  • By
  • Gregory Rodriguez,
  • New America Foundation
May 14, 2012 |


Gregory Rodriguez speaks with Andrés Martinez about immigration, social cohesion, and being a 4th-generation Californian.

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Book Review: Peter Beinart's 'The Crisis Of Zionism' Sounds Call | Los Angeles Times

May 11, 2012

By David Lauter, Los Angeles Times Nearly all the considerable attention generated by Peter Beinart's "The Crisis of Zionism" has focused on its final 81/2 pages. There, warning that the "hour is late," he calls for liberal supporters of Israeli ...

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