Gabriel Díaz Montemayor

Opinion | Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime

Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Lately, I've been reminding myself that 75 million voters chose Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

We didn't defeat Trumpism at the ballot box. But remembering that 75 million US adults rejected hatred and fear helps me stay encouraged during these difficult days, weeks, and months.

Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

Video: Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

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Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

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Though the Trump Administration renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the U.S. only lays claim to 46% of the gulf. Learn more about who controls what and why here: nyti.ms/41czLfw

Trump Renamed the Gulf of Mexico, but Who Controls It? The United States, Mexico and Cuba have jurisdiction over different parts of the gulf.

Who Controls the Gulf of Mexico? Mostly Mexico www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | It’s America That Suffers When We Cut Foreign Aid U.S.A.I.D. keeps children alive and us safe.

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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952, the corporate share of federal tax revenue was 32%. In 2020, it was down to 7%. Here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people. Watch More: What's the Real American Story? ►► https://youtu.be/vvCtwDAQta0 For more videos like these, be sure to subscribe. If you'd like to support our work, you can do so here: www.inequalitymedia.org/donate Follow Robert Reich: Facebook: facebook.com/RBReich Twitter: twitter.com/RBReich Instagram: instagram.com/rbreich/

Never forget that Trump was the culmination of 40 years of stagnant wages, widening inequality, corruption, dog-whistle politics, and economic gains for the rich.

If we fail to address this, we should expect future Trumps as far as the eye can see.

Opinion | Why Elon Musk and JD Vance Went to Bat for a Self-Described Racist Trump’s acolytes place qualified civil servants on leave and reinstate a far-right troll.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

Opinion | Samantha Power: Killing U.S.A.I.D. Is a Win for Autocrats Everywhere The attacks on the agency are cruel and counterproductive.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small | Rebecca Solnit But it’s important to not limit our sense of what resistance looks like

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Fighting for justice doesn’t have to be a big dramatic act. It can be small

Momento favorito.

Opinion | America Is a Nation of Immigrants That Has Not Lived Up to Its Promise (Gift Article) The huddled masses yearning to breathe free have not always been received with open arms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

Opinion | On a Cold, Dark Inauguration Day, a Message From the Birds Seeing those cardinals watching over each other, I wondered: What can I, too, do to be watchful? To take care?

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Opinion | A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration Mess Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.

The NYT resource-rationalizing for an audience of a theorically compassionate people/nation so that maybe they can be convinced by the equation of growth/capital.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...