The Latest Articles by Jean Guerrero

After sneaking into Wakanda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Marvel’s merman demigod Namor emerges from the water in the darkness. He startles Queen Ramonda and her daughter Shuri in a rural area of their Black utopia. “Who are you?” the queen asks. “And how did you get in here?”

For Democrats who mistake demographics for destiny, Imperial County is a mystery. It's California's most heavily Latino county, and yet Republicans have been making gains here.

Behind closed doors, they sound like former President Donald Trump.

The fantasy began to consume me at the turn of the millennium.

The first year of Donald Trump's presidency, I interviewed a 78-year-old man who regularly patrolled his border-adjacent property in the rural California town of Boulevard, wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying an AR-10. "It is my duty to protect my country from people invading it," Bob Maupin told me.

During Hispanic Heritage Month, which starts this week, President Joe Biden should skip the praise of our various cultures and cuisines. We know he can bop his head to reggaeton. We know the First Lady appreciates breakfast tacos.

A main driver of democracy's decline in the United States is Latinophobia — from its central role in the rise of Donald Trump to its influence in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The GOP has two words that give it strength: "America First."

Whereas the Republican Party once claimed it was "colorblind," now it embraces race-conscious rhetoric. The era of Trump's dog whistle has given way to Tucker Carlson's explicit politics of white grievance.