Ed Morales

Puerto Rico’s government wants its people to believe that they are the cause of an identity fraud crisis, and to correct the problem, it’s treating them like second-class citizens.read more

Puerto Ricans need to be allowed to vote on changing their political status. The status quo is untenable.read more

The Obama administration needs to crack down on private contractors working with our military.read more

Leave it to conservatives to inject a racial component into the current economic crisis. Over the last week, leading conservative commentators like Charles Krauthammer, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, and the Wall Street Journal editorial writers have been trying to blame the crisis on minorities getting subprime mortgages.read more

Leave it to conservatives to inject a racial component into the current economic crisis. Over the last week, leading conservative commentators like Charles Krauthammer, Ann Coulter, Lou Dobbs, and the Wall Street Journal editorial writers have been trying to blame the crisis on minorities getting subprime mortgages.read more

This year, Latinos should be encouraged by their increasing visibility and political power, as well as their growing standing in the Democratic Party. But there is still much work to do.read more

The United States invaded the island on July 25, 1898, and claimed it as booty after the Spanish-American War. Long since obsolete as a strategic outpost in the Cold War, the Caribbean island is America’s best-kept secret: an unfree state within the land of the free.read more

Suddenly it seems that Sen. Barack Obama’s Latino problem has become a Latino edge.read more

Let’s hope McCain’s new website means he understands that the use of Spanish, and many other non-English languages in America, is here to stay, and the idea of declaring an official language is officiread more

When New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, he may have finally restored sanity to the Democratic presidential race. After almost a month of negative campaigning most often initiated by the Hillary Clinton camp, Richardson’s endorsement was a direct reaction to the kind of politics that threatens to hurt his party’s chances in the November election.read more

While some claim that illegal immigrants pose a danger on the road, the fact is that high accident rates are more easily correlated with unlicensed drivers, who are also much more liable to leave the scene of an accident. Extending licenses to undocumented immigrants would have the effect of making the roads safer, and that should bring your insurance rates down.read more

January 4, 2007

Latinos are under attack -- by one of their own.read more

November 15, 2006

The Republican Party should think twice the next time it tries to score political points at the expense of Latinos.read more

November 1, 2006

The construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S. border is a desperate political ploy, and it could prove to be costly and ineffective.read more

July 19, 2006

The English-only crowd is taking its cause to ridiculous lengths.read more