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.
Arts & CultureFilm
“Gangs of New York” reminds us that for as long as the United States has been a nation of immigrants, it has been infected by xenophobia.
Politics & SocietyNews
Mr. Cardenas’s lawyers argued that Texas authorities had not properly informed him that as a Mexican citizen he was entitled to legal aid from the Mexican consulate.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Could Hawkins be a place haunted not just by the Upside Down, but by the ghosts of our country’s racist past?
Faith
Almighty God, who alone created the beauty and the bounty of our land, who cares and loves everyone, be with your people in California now in the midst of the fires.
Politics & SocietyNews
Bishop Vasa called on all Catholics of the diocese to help their brothers and sisters who “have been severely impacted by the devastating fires and are in immediate need of your prayers."
Arts & CultureBooks
‘We Were Eight Years in Power’ is a sort of “I told you so,” though Coates takes little pleasure in having to say it.
Arts & CultureFilm
"The Florida Project" tells the story of a mother and daughter in the hidden world of extended-stay motels in the city of Kissimmee, Fla.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
The earthquake feels like yet another crisis tearing at our transnational families. The earthquake was a natural disaster, but the many ways American society fails to value the lives of foreigners, of immigrants, of its own citizens, because of their skin color or their Latino heritage is a disaster of our own making.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
The fight for the Dreamers is a fight for every immigrant.
Arts & CultureFilm
Huerta’s lack of recognition is certainly not due to a lack of proximity to power; she stood alongside giants of American history.