Let’s be clear: I am not against lifting the embargo on Cuba. What I am against is doing it without requiring the Cuban dictatorship to restore real and substantive freedoms to its people.

Latinos should think long and hard before embracing President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform. 

I wish I could say that President Obama’s speech outlining his plans to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS was a convincing one. Unfortunately it wasn’t. 

What is wrong with wanting to accelerate a return to democracy for 11 million people who have been enslaved for over half a century?

Is this the new normal for America? Why is the president not treating this as the urgent national crisis that it is?

The leader of the free world extending his hand, and a cheerful salutation, to a brutal dictator is deeply disturbing. 

The Syrian regime’s deadly chemical attack might never have occurred had the Obama administration crafted and carried out a robust proactive strategy to deal with the country’s horrific civil war, now in its third year.

Trayvon didn’t deserve to die. The vast majority of Americans share this sentiment. But the truth requires that we speak plainly, even if it hurts or offends.

Sequestration is not just a lousy way to cut the federal deficit. It is also a dumb way to curtail military spending.

Pope Francis knows the unfulfilled capacity for greatness that lies not just in Latin America but in all of the developing world. In that respect he is surely a Latino, and African, and Asian too.