Ruben Navarrette Jr.

Clint Eastwood made my day. It happened during a recent interview with The New York Times in which the actor-director said he was baffled by the controversy surrounding his latest...

I suppose I can't blame Democrats for fighting President Bush's plan to reform Social Security. I just wish that, for the sake of the economic welfare of future generations, they'd...

Mexican officials insist that any immigration accord with the United States must recognize the contributions that Mexican immigrants make to the U.S. economy. They should talk. For the most part,...

Did you catch the score from the Senate confirmation hearing on Alberto Gonzales? Latinos 1, Liberals 0. I say that because my liberal friends were hoping that Democrats on the...

Many Americans are confronting their greatest challenge. It's not making a living, making a career for themselves, or making a difference in the world. It's parenthood. Hollywood has picked up...

Don't judge a movie by its trailer. I'll have to remember that. Recently, when I saw an advertisement for yet another film with yet another Latina cast as a maid,...

The joke is that you can't get two Mexican-Americans to agree on anything. And that has often been the case with Hector Flores and me. Flores is completing his third...

The more you hear about Bernard Kerik's messy personal life, the more you begin to think the former New York police commissioner should be cordoned off with little orange cones....

Don't mess with the Texas Rangers. That seems to be the attitude of old-guard historians in the Lone Star State who long have circled the intellectual wagons to protect the...

The national media are a confusing bunch. After weeks of trying to convince Americans that President Bush plans to use the next four years to sprint to the right, they...