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 Editorials | Opinions
The Worst President in History?
 Sean Wilentz
George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents.more »»»
Polls Don't Capture Blacks' Intense Debate Over Immigration
 Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Though many African-Americans have told pollsters they support the struggles of undocumented immigrants, others are protesting for stricter enforcement of immigration laws.more »»»
Senate Hearings on Bush, Now
 Carl Bernstein
In this VF.com exclusive, a Watergate veteran and Vanity Fair contributor calls for bipartisan hearings investigating the Bush presidency. Should Republicans on the Hill take the high road and save themselves come November?more »»»
Immigrants Bolster US Economy, But At What Cost?
 Reuters
Massive street protests have catapulted immigration to the top of the US agenda, pitting workers against business interests. But a crackdown on illegal workers could create huge economic strains for all.more »»»
A New Deal from the 'Mexican Messiah'
 Alan Freeman
Filogonio Gaspar Rios is a small man with weathered skin, a Pancho Villa mustache and a straw hat. And he loves Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican presidential candidate known by his initials AMLO.more »»»
Hero or Criminal?
 Brenda Norrell
Tohono O'odham Mike Wilson's truck is loaded with water - plastic gallons and huge jugs of it. Wilson is delivering water alone, as he has been doing for the past five years, for dehydrated migrants that he will likely never see - migrants crossing the desert on foot on Tohono O'odham tribal land and struggling to survive.more »»»
A Darwinian View of Immigration
 Lowell Ponte
“All these immigration bills are essentially the same,” the wise man told me. “None are intended to stop illegal immigration. Our restrictions are designed merely to be filters to weed out the weak, lazy and stupid from getting into the U.S. Those who get through will be the fittest, and they will bring the best genetic stock as new citizens.”more »»»
Democrats: Get Loud, Get Angry!
 Morton Abramowitz & Samantha Power
If the Democrats stand any chance of improving U.S. foreign policy in the near term, while also positioning themselves to conduct it in the medium term, it will not be by making nice.more »»»
A Cruise to the Mexican Riviera
 Spud Hilton
By midnight, the party on the Aloha Deck on the Diamond Princess was jamming across the Sea of Cortez at 20 knots faster than the ship itself. Mai tais rose and fell with the ocean and, as I watched the rowdy partiers at the railings, my thoughts turned to culture: Is an authentic Mexican fiesta supposed to have male strippers?more »»»
Congress Must Face Reality: Immigrants Want Equality
 David Bacon
Senators will pat themselves on the back this week for agreeing to their most pro-corporate, anti-immigrant bill in decades. Tens of thousands of people may be forced to leave the US as a result. Millions more would have to become braceros - guest workers on temporary visas - just to continue to labor in the jobs they've had for years.more »»»
Buenos Dias Spring Breakers
 Marie Christine Cannizzaro
When my friends and I heard that everyone was going to Cabo for Spring Break, we were nothing short of disgusted. Cabo, I mean really, could it be any more cliche? We are dessert-before-dinner girls, kiss-on-the-first-date girls, wear-white-way-after-Labor-Day girls. So we went to Vallarta, which is definitely several miles south of Cabo.more »»»
Lou Dobbs: Self Interested Demagoguery
 Tim Rutten
His shtick is to take a page from Fox's playbook and retool the talk-radio sensibility for the tube. No real reporting, just lots of opinion aggressively presented with a recurring focus on the requisite obsession — in his case, illegal immigration.more »»»
Buckley Says Bush Will Be Judged on Iraq War, Now a "Failure"
 Bloomberg
William F. Buckley Jr., the longtime conservative writer and leader, said George W. Bush's presidency will be judged entirely by the outcome of a war in Iraq that is now a failure.more »»»
Today's Immigration Battle - Corporatists vs. Racists
 Thom Hartmann
The corporatist Republicans ("amnesty!") are fighting with the racist Republicans ("fence!"), and it provides an opportunity for progressives to step forward with a clear solution to the immigration problem facing America.more »»»
Casey Austin Sheehan
May 29, 1979 - April 4, 2004
 Cindy Sheehan
Buddhists say that a person dies twice. Once when his/her physical body dies and once when the last person to remember him/her dies. We should never forget the lesson of Casey and his untimely death on the altar of the war machine.more »»»
American Dreams, Foreign Flags
 Linda Chavez
Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators took to the streets in Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix and dozens of other cities in the last week to protest harsh legislation passed by the House that would make felons of the 12 million illegal aliens living in the United States.more »»»
Wage War On Poverty, Not Immigrants
 Jesse Jackson
"Sa se puede!" Yes we can. They marched by the hundreds of thousands in Los Angeles, by the tens of thousands in Milwaukee, in Phoenix, in New York. Across the US, Hispanics dramatically entered what has been an increasingly ugly debate about immigration.more »»»
A Modest March for the Huicholes
 Peter Gray
This is not my usual kind of 'press release' for Becas or the Navy League or Toys for Tots. It is a more personal article about the visit to PV this March of a large group of Huicholes, who created a month long Festival here. Perhaps I may be over-reacting, but I felt there was a rather sad lack of interest and support by those in our our community who could have best given it.more »»»
Taco Bell Nation
 Dagoberto Gilb
Look around any of these fast-food franchises and you'll see the mosaic of people we've become. Maybe a little too portly. And way too ignorant of what a real chalupa is.more »»»
A Top-Down Review for the Pentagon
 Paul D. Eaton
During World War II, American soldiers en route to Britain before D-Day were given a pamphlet on how to behave while awaiting the invasion. The most important quote in it was this: "It is impolite to criticize your host; it is militarily stupid to criticize your allies."more »»»
Deranged, Disconnected, and Dangerous
 William Rivers Pitt
There was an article in the Washington Post ten days ago that was, in no uncertain terms, the most frightening and disturbing report I have seen in months. It wasn't about mass casualties in Iraq, or about a looming civil war there, or about terrorism, or the bursting budget, or spying on Americans. It was about a rug.more »»»
Hungering for Justice at My First Congressional Testimony
 Mike Ferner
Last Wednesday evening, the House Appropriations Committee voted not to throw another $67,000,000,000 at the murderous work in Iraq and Afghanistan. That night members of the committee, righteously indignant and nearly unanimous, gave President "Bring 'Em On" Bush a loud slap in the face.more »»»
Faults Seen In Mexico's Democracy
 Dudley Althaus
Like many thousands of Mexicans, Guillermo Pizzuto spent decades struggling to bring democracy to his country: marching in countless protests, enduring beatings by police, winning office as an opposition candidate.more »»»
Interview with Michelle Bachelet: "Only Cleaned Wounds Can Heal"
 Spiegel
Michelle Bachelet, 54, who was sworn in as Chile's first democratically-elected female president this month, discusses efforts to deal with her country's difficult Pinochet legacy, Chile's dramatic economic growth and Latin America's leftward swing.more »»»
The 2006 Latino Peace Pilgrimage to End the Iraq War
 David Howard
On March 12, the seventy-sixth anniversary of the Gandhi's Salt March, as the world suffered the intended and unintended consequences of a hideous war of aggression against Iraq, Latino conscientious objectors and parents of fallen soldiers began their own two-week march of nonviolent protest.more »»»
Lap Dogs of the Press
 Helen Thomas
Of all the unhappy trends I have witnessed - conservative swings on television networks, dwindling newspaper circulation, the jailing of reporters and "spin" - nothing is more troubling to me than the obsequious press during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.more »»»
Paradise Lost
 Patrick Maloney
Mexico-bound March break tourists who count on sweltering temperatures and low exchange rates may not realize another stunning figure, an expert says. Only one in five reported Mexican crimes is investigated by its police force, which is underpaid, undertrained and under harsh criticism since the recent slayings of a Toronto couple.more »»»
Digital Hype: A Dazzling Smokescreen?
 Norman Solomon
As each new season brings more waves of higher-tech digital products, I often think of Mark Twain. Along with being a brilliant writer, he was also an ill-fated investor - fascinated with the latest technical innovations, including the strides toward functional typewriters and typesetting equipment as the 19th century neared its close.more »»»
Twilight's Last Gleaming
 John Cory
Who are these people? These people who line their pockets with the lives of our loved ones? These gray men who lurk in shadows and kill the sunshine of democracy? These people who wear morality like a cheap suit pilfered from the collection plate of decency?more »»»
The Bad Neighbor
 Herald.com
The expulsion of Cuban officials from a U.S.-owned hotel in Mexico City at the behest of the U.S. Treasury Department is an incident straight out of the Three Stooges school of diplomacy.more »»»
The Case for Impeachment
 Lewis H. Lapham
Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child's tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?more »»»
Human Rights Hypocrisy
 Marjorie Cohn
Last week, the President of the United Nations General Assembly announced a new proposal to revamp the UN Human Rights Commission. The product of months of negotiations between the 53 member nations of the Commission, the proposal will be voted on next month. The US, however, immediately denounced the compromise.more »»»
Inquiring Gringos Want to Know
 Daniel Hernandez
Dear Mexican, Why do Mexicans call white people gringos? In 'Ask a Mexican,' a politically incorrect OC Weekly columnist fields readers' frank questions. He's a wiseguy with a cultural objective.more »»»
The Spirit of Gandhi, the Passion of Jesus
 Pablo Paredes
Many would find it a sad irony to know that the first Mexican to die in this war was of the name Jesús. Jesús Suarez Del Solar was a charismatic young soul who joined the Marines believing he would free the children of Iraq.more »»»
What the Hell Happened, Sir?
 Warren Whipple
Liberal Democrats, these days, are mad about a lot of things. They think that the Democrats in Congress haven't done enough to oppose the Republican agenda. They're mad about the prescription drug plan and they're mad about the Patriot Act. But mostly, they're mad about The War. Not the one in which we went after al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and quit too early. The other one. The stupid one.more »»»
The Travails of Mexican Journalist Lydia Cacho
 Michael Lettieri
As Mexico launches itself into the most heated presidential campaign season in the country’s history, controversial issues of the past will loom large. It is a certainty that voters will reject any candidate who seems to embody the excesses symbolized by the 71-year legacy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.more »»»
U.S. Badly Needs Workers, but the System Won't Let Them In
 Jeanne Butterfield
How do you fill America's labor needs and ensure that immigrant families aren't broken up? Not by sealing the border or simply increasing immigration law enforcement, writes Jeanne Butterfield, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.more »»»
Cheney's Dodge: Taking Responsibility
 Norman Solomon
When Dick Cheney surfaced on Wednesday long enough for an interview with Fox News eminence Brit Hume - an event that CNN's Jack Cafferty promptly likened to "Bonnie interviewing Clyde" - the vice presidential spin emerged from a time-worn bag of political tricks. Cheney took responsibility. Whatever that means.more »»»
Corruption and Impunity in Mexico’s Now Famous Press Freedom Case is One More Stain on the Fox Presidency
 Lydia Cacho
As Mexico launches itself into the most heated presidential campaign season in the country’s history, controversial issues of the past will loom large. It is a certainty that voters will reject any candidate who seems to embody the excesses symbolized by the 71-year legacy of the PRI’s authoritarianism.more »»»
Vice President Cheney and the Fight over "Inherent" Presidential Powers
 John W. Dean
Vice President Dick Cheney has stirred up an old fight in Washington. He sent a rookie, however, to make his case publicly. It did not work.more »»»
Is Mexico Poised to Move Left in July Election?
 Emile Schepers
Recently, one Latin American country after another has elected a government that to some degree has bucked U.S.-supported policies. If Mexico, a country of 106 million people with a 2,000-mile border with the US, also moves left, it will cause worry at the White House.more »»»
Uncle Sam: Fix Immigration
 Rowland Nethaway
National frustration over the nation's dysfunctional immigration system has led to the passage of sundry immigration laws by the states. The federal government should take charge of a problem that demands national control.more »»»
The America We Believe In
 John Edwards
I am grateful for the opportunity to talk with you about the state of our union on the day of the president's address to our country. While it is discouraging for all of us to see our country moving in the wrong direction, we need to take this opportunity to offer ideas for how to get the nation back on track.more »»»
Talking Mexican Politics
 Ruben Navarrette Jr.
I've had Mexicans tell me that they really don't understand Mexican Americans. For one thing, they can't figure out how it is that a group of people who think and behave like any other group of Americans still consider themselves Mexican.more »»»
Bush Is at War with Americanism
 David Michael Green
Ridiculous? Unthinkable? The idea that an American president could epitomize anti-Americanism is certainly counterintuitive. But it's a lot less shocking if we consider just what defines this country's core values.more »»»
Impeach or Indict Bush and Cheney
 Ronnie Dugger
The year 2006 will be historic for the nation, and probably for humanity. Texans Bush and Rove and their conspirators in the second Bush presidency have disgraced American democracy at home and in the world with debasements of our nation and our values that have now entered their climactic phase. What part will the rest of us Texans play in this decisive year?more »»»
Parsing the Polls: Can Hillary Win the White House?
 Chris Cillizza
No potential presidential candidate creates more buzz than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Pollsters want to know: Can she win a national election? Nothing gets my pulse racing like chatter about the 2008 presidential race, and no potential candidate in that field is talked about more than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.more »»»
Why God Chose the Jews
 Andrew Klavan
Whatever the reason, true, virulent anti-Semitism is such a good indicator of the presence of evil that I'm tempted to believe that when God made the Jews his chosen people, this is what he chose them for: to be a sort of Villainy Early Detection System for everyone else.more »»»
The Impeachment of George W. Bush
 Elizabeth Holtzman
Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush - not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress.more »»»
Kennedy: The Conspiracy Goes On
 Prensa Latina
One of the collateral objectives of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was that of liquidating the Cuban Revolution. But this aim was not achieved and that is the underlying reason that 45 years afterwards, the conspiracy continues.more »»»
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