Opinion

Trump's refusal to accept the results – when the polls say he could lose – is a grave threat to a democracy more than two centuries old. Those are the kinds of things we hear from dictators in Latin America, not in the United States.

As the United States prepares for the November 3 elections, president Trump is systematically dismantling the effectiveness of efforts to promote democracy in the hemisphere by the shabby manner in which he treats it at home.

Since President Nayib Bukele was swept into office in 2019, El Faro and other independent news outlets in El Salvador have been under increased pressure, including bans on certain reporters from presidential press conferences, defamatory articles in government-controlled media, cyber-attacks, break-ins and theft.

Barrett’s induction onto the Court will have a profound affect on the future of health care, and on the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans.

On the pandemic, Trump has been disinformer-in-chief. All the president's covid-19 drama and risks could have been avoided if Trump had always worn protective masks in public. But Trump seldom listens to doctors or scientists.

The politicized heavy-handed responses of governments that prioritize law and order is a global phenomenon that has done little to address the social inequities that lead to violence in the first place.

Democrats’ investment in Latino education and outreach has paid off in past elections in battleground states across the country. With mere weeks until the most significant presidential election in our lifetimes, Democratic candidates need to do everything in their power to earn our support.

The pandemic has turned the binational family lives of Mexican-Americans upside down. There are roughly 12 million Mexicans living in the United States who were born south of the border, including myself, and our wonderful tradition of going back to Mexico for important family events as a way of showing solidarity has been shattered.

"The Venezuelan community in the United States has the power to stop Trump and his Republican enablers from turning our nation into an authoritarian regime as Chávez and Maduro did in Venezuela."

A new 443-page report on Venezuela by the U. N. Human Rights Council is a terrifying guide to evil and cruelty. So, here's a question: how many people are needed for a protest that topples a dictator?