CHICAGO -- I'm into "Missing (una investigacion)," the latest book by Chilean novelist Alberto Fuguet. I'm reading it in Spanish since I have to consciously practice my native language or it vanishes. My family speaks English, lest we ...

CHICAGO -- It's that time. If you're a teacher in a school with a large concentration of Hispanic students, you're doing end-of-year reviews and preparing for final exams -- and you have kids trickling up to you to let you know they won't be ...

CHICAGO -- The U.S. Census Bureau released its November voting data and one thing is clear: The so-called Latino Sleeping Giant is still snoozing -- fewer than half of all eligible Hispanics turned out to vote in 2012.

After nearly a year of ...

CHICAGO -- Is it just me or is Tony Stark on a health kick? In the third "Iron Man" -- a series that spent its first two installments glorifying the reckless life of a spoiled, rich genius -- Stark, the man inside the metallic exoskeleton, seems ...

CHICAGO -- Two summers ago, my husband and I took our sons to a shooting range for multiple days of firearms training with a certified instructor. Our logic was simple: In our low-income community with lots of gang activity, it was laughable to ...

CHICAGO -- Our society is on the path to random chaos because our willingness to make exceptions for people has morphed into never-ending feelings of grievance and expectations of entitlement.

Let me illustrate:

While earning my master's in ...