Ruben Navarrette Jr.

At the grass roots, the immigration debate is rapidly going the way of the abortion debate. It has become a clash of absolutes with no negotiable middle ground, where each...

Two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I was in England, at Oxford outside of London. I was there as part of the British-American Project, a leadership program that...

I can't believe I'm defending Tom Cruise. But someone has to do it. Cruise has been criticized and ridiculed after a heated exchange with "Today" show co-host Matt Lauer last...

In the minds of many liberal Democrats, Hispanics and African-Americans must seem to come in only two varieties: deferential or defective. And according to one angry caller--who was, from the...

What does it mean for the United States to have, for the first time in history, a Hispanic U.S. attorney general? For many Hispanics, it means a lot. That includes...

The debate over whether to reform Social Security is full of idiosyncrasies. Here's a big one: No matter what fix we're talking about--partial privatization, raising the retirement age, means testing...

For President Elias Antonio Saca of El Salvador, the Central American Free Trade Agreement is a no-brainer. He considers it a "win-win" proposition and--that being the case--he probably doesn't fully...

My daughter is still an infant, but when the time comes, I think I'll be strong enough to set the rules. What worries me is whether I'll be willing to...

Whenever they're faced with increased criticism and waning public support, Republicans in California tend to play the illegal-immigration card. That's when a politician tries to shift attention away from his...

Latino and African-American professionals can get pretty worked up defending affirmative action. I know this firsthand. Whenever I mention to a group of them that I oppose racial preferences in...