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Puerto Rican Children at Risk

Puerto Rican Children at Risk

By: Daniel Nardini According to a report put out on its 2011 KIDSCOUNT databook by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, children in Puerto Rico are especially at-risk from a number… Read more »

The Fight for Malaysia’s Soul

The Fight for Malaysia’s Soul

By: Daniel Nardini Most Malay women, who are Muslim, typically wear the hijab or headscarf. There is no law in Malaysia that requires women to wear the hijab. Nevertheless most… Read more »

The Mennonites and the Drug Cartels

The Mennonites and the Drug Cartels

By: Daniel Nardini The drug war is doing more than killing tens of thousands of people and destroying the whole fabric of Mexican society. It is starting to create refugees… Read more »

The South’s War Against Latinos

The South’s War Against Latinos

By: Daniel Nardini It seems sad that many southern non-Hispanic whites just cannot accept Latinos. Like in the rest of the country, Latinos are a growing segment in the southeastern… Read more »

More of the Dark Side of the Libyan Civil War

More of the Dark Side of the Libyan Civil War

By: Daniel Nardini U.S. President Barack Obama has stated that the U.S. helped the “people of Libya” and that whatever they do now for their country is in their hands…. Read more »

J-1 Visa Slavery

J-1 Visa Slavery

By: Daniel Nardini As hundreds of cultural exchange students remain on strike in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the main fight is over the abuse by institutions and corporations of the J-1 Visa…. Read more »

Aliens Among Us?

Aliens Among Us?

By: Daniel Nardini Something about the year 2012 that has some people, including leading scientists, speculating that the Earth could come into contact with extraterrestrials in the not-so-distant future. Some… Read more »

Sovereign Native American Coins

Sovereign Native American Coins

By: Daniel Nardini For almost 200 years the United States Mint had struck coins featuring Native Americans on U.S. coins. It is an irony that at the time when this… Read more »

Finding a Home for Huge Columbus Statue

Finding a Home for Huge Columbus Statue

By: Daniel Nardini It has been in pieces in storage since 1998. Now the Puerto Rican government wants to finally assemble and put in place the huge statue of the… Read more »

About the Mail Order Catalog

About the Mail Order Catalog

By: Daniel Nardini Most young people ages 25 or younger have no idea what a mail order catalog is. I cannot blame them—in the age of the Internet there is… Read more »