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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Right to Work to Death
By: Daniel Nardini New Hampshire may become one of the growing number of states to pass right to work laws. Under such laws companies can opt out of union contracts… Read more »