Roberto Lovato

Roberto Lovato, a frequent Nation contributor, is a New York-based writer with New America Media.

Currently

  • Justicia Poetica

    November 13, 2009

    The victory over Lou Dobbs demonstrates that the immigrant community is mobilized like never before.

  • Mo(u)rning in El Salvador

    March 26, 2009

    Shaking off the legacy of dictatorship, the people elect the FMLN's Mauricio Funes.

  • A Conversation with Mauricio Funes

    March 17, 2009

    Mauricio Funes, president-elect of El Salvador, talks of the meaning of his recent victory, aspirations for his administration and the inspiration provided by the late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.

2008

  • Juan Crow in Georgia

    May 8, 2008

    Immigrant Latinos live under a matrix of oppressive laws, customs and institutions.

2007

  • A New Latino Agenda

    October 12, 2007

    Latino voters will go to the polls in 2008 with a hemispheric vision, a new sense of power and concerned about Iraq, immigration and the environment.

  • A Migrant Summit

    July 13, 2007

    Immigration reform may have crashed in Washington, but a very different discussion of the same issues continues below the border.

  • The Smog of Race War in LA

    March 21, 2007 Subscribe

    Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.

2006

  • Latinos Lean Left: Bringing Down the GOP's Big Tent

    December 4, 2006

    Latino voters walked away from the GOP in the midterm elections, a payback for the party's ruthlessly anti-immigrant stance.

  • Immigrants Regroup

    October 26, 2006

    This year will be remembered both for massive immigrants rights marches and for the Al Qaedization of immigrants.

  • Voices of a New Movimiento

    June 1, 2006

    As they push for immigrants rights legislation--and brace for the inevitable backlash--a diverse array of emerging leaders have their eyes on a larger prize.

  • Envisioning Another World: Integración Desde Abajo

    February 16, 2006 Subscribe

    Immigrant advocates at the World Social Forum offered real alternatives to the narrow debate over how to fix the system.

2005

  • The War for Latinos

    September 15, 2005

    In the face of unprecedented manpower problems, the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to target young Latinos for military recruitment.

2004

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Blogs

» The Beat

Facing Bipartisan Criticism, RNC's Steele Asks If Race Is Factor | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
John Nichols

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
43 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
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» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman