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Guest commentary: Obamacare — Greed and Health Care gap
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Guest commentary: Ivan Illich’s toe
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Guest commentary: El Baruyo. Context in understanding history’s unforgettable characters
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Guest commentary: Back to Bachimba — Why history makes us important
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Guest commentary: The word Neo is not new. The age of the billionaires
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Guest commentary: The tyranny of words privatization, marketization, globalization “Greed is Good”
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Guest commentary: The Great American chastity belt — The obsession to control our minds
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Guest commentary: ¡Tierra y Libertad! Articles 27 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution. Does History Matter?
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Guest commentary: Blame the Greek! Criticism, an abandoned process
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Guest commentary: El Día de los Pendejos? / The Day of the Fools?
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Guest commentary: Identity Crisis — An Arrested Development
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Guest commentary: El Día de Los Muertos and Halloween: Quo Vadis?
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Guest commentary: The Devil made me do it. American exceptionalism revisited
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Guest commentary: El Día La Raza. What happened to the indigenous race?
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Guest commentary: Role Models — They could have been contenders
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Guest commentary: The illusion that education is the stairway to whiteness. Waiting for the next Sputnik moment
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Guest commentary: The Problem with American Exceptionalism
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Guest commentary: The chickens have come home to roost
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Guest commentary: Say it ain’t so, Dianne
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Guest commentary: Western European Nativism — ‘The apple does not fall far from the tree’
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Guest commentary: Ruminating there, but for the grace of God, go I — c/s
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Guest commentary: Love the kids. Hate gangs. Changing culture
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Guest commentary: The Inconvenient truth — Erasure of memory
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Guest commentary: Sometimes you have to shout to be heard
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Guest commentary: Por eso estamos como estamos
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Guest commentary: Erosion of respect for the law
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Guest commentary: Why Mexicans don’t trust government
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Guest commentary: The American nightmare — Death of the peasant landlord
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Guest commentary: Chingaderas — It’s the system stupid
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Guest commentary: How history is socially controlled in K-12
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Guest commentary: Don’t mess with Meskins
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Guest commentary: When you’re stupid, you’re stupid
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Guest commentary: Since when is losing winning?
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Guest Commentary: We ain’t going back
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Commentary: Arizona Copycats — Mexicans in the Photo
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Commentary: The Immigration Paradigm — The Shell Game
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Commentary: Immigration — The death of the Chicana/o left
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