Marilyn Miranda, 9, draped in a Salvadoran flag, attends an immigration rally with her mother outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 4, 2019. Despite the problems of racism Hispanics may confront in the U.S., the physical dangers and extreme poverty in Honduras and other Central American countries lead immigrants to see America as a promised land. (CNS/Reuters/Leah Millis)
Editor s note: This week, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters looks at the Latino vote in the 2020 election and what it portends for the future of American politics. The first column is here.
One theme emerges very clearly from the post-election analysis about the Hispanic vote: The conclusion that viewing Latinos as monolithic, as possessed of a singular, unifying identity, was the foundational problem made by many politicians and campaign consultants. Hispanic or Latino identity is a multi-faceted reality, ill-suited to one-size-fits-all approaches even when it comes to how t
Cardinals Timothy Dolan of New York, left, Sean O Malley of Boston, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, concelebrate the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life Jan. 23, 2020, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
At Politico, Gabby Orr and Meredith McGraw pen one of the most incisive articles about former President Donald Trump s current political status: He is not the Godzilla in exile that many feared but is adrift and unsure. Turns out, politics is largely about the acquisition and allocation of power and he lost much of his in the past few months, not only when he left office, but when his coattails could not help Republicans in Georgia hold on to two Senate seats.
President Donald Trump, right, walks on stage before delivering remarks during a Latinos For Trump campaign event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Florida, Sept. 25, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner)
Editor s note: This week, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters looks at the Latino vote in the 2020 election and what it portends for the future of American politics. Read Part 2 here.
Election Day 2020 began with the polls pointing to a dominant victory for Joe Biden and the Democrats. Biden was leading in Florida and barely trailing President Donal Trump in Texas. Texas! By 11 p.m., of course, both states were decisively in the Trump column, and the election was so close, The Associated Press did not call it until the following Saturday.
Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress passed the $1.9 billion American Rescue Plan, (ARP) and President Joe Biden signed it into law yesterday. The new law includes efforts to confront the .
Visitors are photographed at the base of American Falls in Niagara Falls, New York, Feb. 21. (CNS/Reuters/Lindsay DeDario)
From the Independent Record, some good news for the workers of Montana: The House of Representatives there decisively voted down a right-to-work bill by the lopsided margin of 62-38. The Republican majority in the chamber is almost the reverse: 67 Republicans to 33 Democrats. Congratulations to those Republican House members who saw this right-to-work legislation for what it is, an insult to workers right to organize.
It is not every day that I find myself agreeing with neoconservative Bill Kristol. But in this article at The Bulwark, Kristol is quite blunt about the situation facing conservatives: