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Where Interracial Marriage is Still a Taboo Subject

Where Interracial Marriage is Still a Taboo Subject

By: Daniel Nardini In a survey conducted among Republican voters in Mississippi late last year by Public Policy Polling of Raleigh, North Carolina, 46 percent said that interracial marriage should… Read more »

Revisiting the Bracero Program

Revisiting the Bracero Program

By: Daniel Nardini Those Mexican workers who came to the United States to work in the fields and in some industries were assigned to a certain area to be, had… Read more »

Behind the Skewed Immigration Debate

Behind the Skewed Immigration Debate

By: Daniel Nardini At an immigration committee hearing held on immigration in the North Carolina House of Representatives, three undocumented persons temporarily disrupted the hearing. They were arrested and with… Read more »

Sports Hate Speech

Sports Hate Speech

By: Daniel Nardini The whole immigration debate has not only turned extremely ugly, but it has turned extremely ugly in an area that had until recently been free of it—sports…. Read more »

The Pyongyang Restaurant

The Pyongyang Restaurant

By: Daniel Nardini I found this oddball piece of news in an Asian daily newspaper. A Dutch entrepreneur named Remco van Daal set up a North Korea-style restaurant in Amsterdam,… Read more »

Out of Control Birther Law

Out of Control Birther Law

By: Daniel Nardini It was once said that if some new trend starts in California then it will eventually sweep the nation. I can safely say that if some new… Read more »

The Beauty That Was the Printed Encyclopedia Britannica

The Beauty That Was the Printed Encyclopedia Britannica

By: Daniel Nardini A long time ago, my mother was a sales lady for the Encyclopedia Britannica. In appreciation for her efforts, the Chicago branch of the Encyclopedia Britannica company… Read more »

Caught in Angry Alabama

Caught in Angry Alabama

By: Daniel Nardini American labor activists from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are going to Seoul, South Korea, to hold protests with their South Korean union counterparts to put… Read more »

The Undocumented Americans in Mexico

The Undocumented Americans in Mexico

By: Daniel Nardini I remember when I was in Guadalajara, Mexico, a long time ago, I met a lady who was working in a private tourist booth with pamphlets and… Read more »

Puerto Rico: Speak English Or Else!

Puerto Rico: Speak English Or Else!

By: Daniel Nardini This is probably the biggest nail in the coffin for a Rick Santorum presidency. The hopeful Republican presidential candidate went to Puerto Rico where he told the… Read more »