Roberto Suro is a professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California. When Congress adjourns this week without repairing our dysfunctional immigration system, a generation-long quest for a bipartisan grand bargain will…

Roberto Suro is a professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California. The recording of racist banter by Los Angeles Latino council members is a sad museum piece. These veterans of ancient battles for Latino empowerment…

Roberto Suro is a professor of journalism and public policy at the University of Southern California. Day after day, President Trump feeds his appetite for demagoguery on impoverished Hondurans. Now he is sending troops to the border. Meanwhile,…

Acentury ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners. Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay, and who would make some money and then go…

Ten years ago, George W. Bush came to Washington as the first new president in a generation or more who had deep personal convictions about immigration policy and some plans for where he wanted to go with it. He wasn't alone. Lots of people in lots…

The Statue of Liberty's crown is open again for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks. That's symbolic. It was reopened on the Fourth of July, very symbolic. The decision was announced http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30638151/ in May on the "Today"…

Politicians and the news media seem entranced by Latino voters. The chairmen of both national parties addressed the annual convention of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, which wrapped up its annual convention in Puerto Rico…

By long-standing Pentagon tradition, new service secretaries promise to put aside the ancient rivalries among the Army, Navy and Air Force and to institute new management practices that will save money. President Bush's appointees made the ritual…

The Bush administration will ask Congress to cancel a referendum on the Navy's use of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a bombing range, the new secretary of the Navy announced yesterday. Despite intense opposition on Capitol Hill, Navy Secretary…

Senior military officers said they felt betrayed and Republicans on Capitol Hill reacted furiously yesterday after President Bush said he would end bombing exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques in 2003. Rep. Bob Stump (R-Ariz.), chairman of…

Faced with dire morale and personnel problems, the military should scrap the hallowed requirement that troops serve 20 years before retirement and end the traditional promotion system for officers that requires them to move up in the ranks or leave…

The Bush administration hopes to organize new multiservice strike forces that could be used to undertake aggressive military actions around the world and move to trouble spots within 24 hours, under a wide-ranging proposal unveiled yesterday to…

The number of troops leaving the U.S. military after declaring themselves gay jumped by 28 percent last year, with departures from an Army base that was the scene of a gay-bashing murder accounting for most of the increase, according to statistics…

The U.S. surveillance plane stranded in China for nearly two months will be broken up into large pieces, flown home aboard a Soviet-made cargo aircraft and reassembled so it can go back into action, the Pentagon announced yesterday. "We're glad to…

Army officers suffer from stifling micromanagement, inadequate training and a promotion system driven by bureaucratic needs, according to a brutally self-critical study released by the Army command yesterday. After interviews with more than 13,000…

A veteran Navy pilot has been reprimanded and relieved of his command after investigators found him responsible for a March 12 accident that killed six military observers on a bombing range in Kuwait. Cmdr. David O. Zimmerman "improperly identified"…

Responding to rumors that Louis J. Freeh would resign when his sixth son was born in 1998, a close associate of the FBI director said Freeh believed he had a mission to make the bureau more efficient, more professional, more tech-savvy and, along the…

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday the administration has no clear plan for how to build the global missile defense that is at the center of its new strategic policy. "People think, you know, 'My goodness, they obviously have…

The U.S. military yesterday flew an intelligence-gathering aircraft off the coast of China for the first time since another surveillance plane was downed April 1 in a collision with a Chinese fighter jet, Pentagon officials said. An Air Force RC-135,…

The election of 2000 will be scrutinized and debated for generations. Did the right candidate win? Was the election stolen? Many Democrats believe it was. Republicans angrily reject that claim, but many of them were hurling charges of larceny…