Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond. He previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter for 15 years and editor for six, wrote a column called ?Ask a Mexican! and is the author of ¡°Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.¡± He¡¯s the child of two Mexican immigrants, one of whom came to this country in the trunk of a Chevy.
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I was excited to see so many voices, new and familiar, dominate the 2024 nonfiction releases, showing that Latinas have played important roles in the Southern California story and deserve far more recognition.
Madrigal vs. Quilligan continues to be taught in universities and retold in academic books as a cautionary tale, its plaintiffs hailed as reproductive-rights heroines.
I¡¯ve spent my career trying to sway skeptics that people here illegally are no different from native-born citizens. That nearly all embody the immigrant spirit.
If Tran wins, Chispa will have succeeded outside its base for the first time, showing that O.C. is about to enter a new political era ¡ª despite MAGA¡¯s takeover of Washington.
Ninety years after his failed run for California governor, Upton Sinclair is smiling down on us from socialist heaven.
I¡¯ve seen Jurado¡¯s remarkable journey from political longshot to surprise winner to history maker. Now, everyone wants an audience with her.
After Trump¡¯s victory, the Latino backlash against Prop. 187 and the subsequent Democratic takeover of California looks more like an exception than a rule.
Hubris was long the engine of De Le¨®n¡¯s 18-year political career. Hubris was also his downfall. De Le¨®n conceded to his opponent, tenant¡¯s rights attorney Ysabel Jurado, in a historic defeat.
After Joe Biden won in 2020 with less Latino support than Clinton, I warned liberals that the Democratic Party was losing blue-collar Latino men. Few listened.
For a year and a half, Kevin de Le¨®n ¡ª ¡°that old serpent,¡± as Revelations 12:9 would have called him ¡ª had stymied opponents who demanded his resignation for his role in a secretly recorded, racist conversation.