Voices
Antonio De Loera-Brust is a first-generation Mexican-American writer and filmmaker from Davis, Calif. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a former Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J., fellow at America.
Politics & SocietyFeatures
Over one million Venezuelans have arrived in Colombia as of May 2018. Colombia is not a rich country, and helping to bear the burden of receiving thousands of Venezuelan refugees every day is the Catholic Church.
FaithFaith in Focus
If Jesus was born today, where might we find him? I would say Tijuana would be a good place to start looking.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
The real threat to the United States is not the unarmed migrants making a dangerous trek through Mexico, it is the fear and hate that sensationalized coverage of the caravan has fomented.
Arts & CultureArt
On the 50th anniversary of many historic moments of the Chicano movement, a new photography exhibit at The Autry in Los Angeles is telling the Chicano story through the eyes of its participants.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
In the rural community of Las Palmas, a group of former coca farmers are replacing coca production with legitimate crops in the hope of promoting peace.
Arts & CultureShort Take
American sports and politics are lurching toward their next racially charged collision.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Separating families will not stop drug traffickers or gang members. Its only purpose is to punish migrants seeking their own American dream.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Our measurements of poverty have changed since Robert F. Kennedy’s historic presidential campaign, but the poor and marginalized still need a champion.
Arts & CultureIdeas
The entire planet will soon be gripped in a sudden and near-religious fervor.
Politics & SocietyNews
Since protests directed at the Sandinista government in Nicaragua began in April, the Jesuit-run University of Central America has been a target of violence.