Winning a war is easy, governing is harder. This Is What Venezuelans Really Want www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

Hey, look, writing can be fun to read, too! This is a fun piece from my friend Jake Lundberg, about the joys of Costco in a mad world. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Great article by compa Jack Herrera. I love the writing, and I love Natalia Lafourcade.

Some more good thoughts for the New Year ...

I like this way of thinking about resolutions. www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...

I think this is a cool story, in addition, of course, to suggesting a potentially important argument for blocking the deployment of national guard here in Chicago and elsewhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

Yet more eww, cringe, and ick. The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Here's an interesting catalog of "Latino Paris" and the Latin American-European connection. With latinidad under attack here, will it move to other parts of the globe where it also has a long history? www.publicbooks.org/paris-latino...

An excellent review of a new novel-in-translation. Novel about the Spanish Civil Wars’s reverberations in the Americas. Review by Kirsten Weld, for @publicbooks.bsky.social. @kirstenweld.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/no-end-to-th...

Writing about @natboundunbound.bsky.social, and listening to the powerful folk ballad, "La cautiva Marcelina," performed by Gregorio Gonzales. It's haunting. Check it out here: soundcloud.com/dr-gregorio-...

ICE policy: “Unless ICE is effectuating an enforcement action against the minor child(ren), ICE personnel should not, under any circumstances, take custody of or transport the minor child(ren).” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Federal agents have violently arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in Chicago. @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social talks to pastors, activists, and lawyers about what’s really going on in the city and what their response should be. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Thanks @kathleenbelew.bsky.social! Yes, please go read piece if you wanna know what's happening in this great city where the tension has ramped up because of the federal presence.

Here's historian David Blight talking about Trump's war on history, and some historian in Trump's orbit I've never heard of. Blight challenges him to a debate. He curated the project that my piece was a part of, and he wrote the introductory essay. Here's the clip: www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

Don't miss @thenewrepublic.bsky.social's new series on Trump's attack on history curated by @dblight.bsky.social. Four pieces dropped online today (by @dblight.bsky.social, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social, Leslie M. Harris & yours truly); more coming soon. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...

It was fun for me to write this essay as part of a project with so many historians I admire, about what it means to teach history in the second Trump administration. newrepublic.com/article/1983...

Can't wait for this! www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/a...

Carlos González Gutiérrez, the Consul General of Mexico in L.A., is fighting for Mexican Los Angeles. "When you are here, if you are a Mexican national, you realize that you belong, that, to a great extent, this is a Mexican city." Thank you for reading. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Check out this BBC News segment with Erica Lubliner and Dana Rusch, about the work they do with their Latino and immigrant patients. Starts at minute 27. They’re badass. I wrote about them in my recent @newyorker.com piece. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Erica Lubliner, who directs a clinic that offers mental-health services to Latinos at UCLA: “ICE is going after the gardener with his truck, the workers at the car wash. The idea that they are somehow dangerous cuts at their identity in a deep way…They feel unwanted. They feel targeted.”

Heartbreaking. It's so immoral to be traumatizing and retraumatizing whole communities like this.

Insight to the stress, psychological harm and wellbeing in immigrant communities caused by discrimination, ICE raids, and anti-immigrant rhetoric. TY for the important reporting ‪@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social.

I've been talking with therapists who treat immigrant patients. They've observed a level of terror they haven't seen before--this moment is "humanistically different," one told me. But they're also trying new treatments and seeing incredible resilience. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Such an honor to talk with Al Camarillo about his memoir, "Compton In My Soul: A Life In Pursuit of Racial Equality," published by @stanfordpress. This is the final episode of season three of Writing Latinos. Thanks for tuning in, more to come next spring. www.publicbooks.org/albert-camar...

🚨New Writing Latinos Episode!🚨 One of my faves. We talk with @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social about his book, Puerto Rico: A National History, plus his collaboration with Bad Bunny! www.publicbooks.org/jorell-melen...

In Chicago, we're having a moment with Pope Leo XIV. But will it amount to more than that--a renewal of the church here? This was a fun one for me. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The new episode of Writing Latinos, featuring Justin Torres, is one of my favorites. We tried something I'd wanted to do for a long time: read a short piece together and discuss. The Afro-Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón's vignette, "Youth: The Palisades as a Backdrop" was perfect. Check it out!

I'm really looking forward to this event in New York on Monday night--May 12--at New York Historical. Here's more information, and I would love to see you, friends! www.nyhistory.org/programs/the...

Chicago friends! TONIGHT: talking with @michaelluo.bsky.social about his stunning book, "Strangers in the Land." It's a beautiful and moving narrative history of Chinese migrants and Chinese Americans. At Harold Washington Library Center. Here's more: chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b....

Hello Chicago! I'm happy to be celebrating the publication of @michaelluo's book "Strangers in the Land," by talking with him at Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center. It's next Tuesday, May 6. Read more here: chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/6761b...

New York friends! Please join us at @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social on Tuesday 5/13. We're celebrating the publication of Mike Luo's book, Strangers in the Land, with a discussion on the uses of history today. With Mike Luo, Jelani Cobb, David Remnick, and me. www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/05132025

I'm really into this new episode of Writing Latinos! On Nicolás Medina Mora's novel, "América del Norte". Check it out!

In the new episode of Writing Latinos, we talk with @aranama about her book "LatinoLand," out now in paperback! Podcast from @publicbooks.bsky.social, book from Simon & Schuster.

Donald Trump's phobias and fantasies as marching orders for our public history. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

“We as a nation have devalued in tandem Latinx food and Latinx food labor at the same time.” New at PB, @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social‬ speaks with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast”:

In the season premiere of our podcast “Writing Latinos,” @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social‬ chats with Lori A. Flores about her new book “Awaiting Their Feast” (@uncpress.bsky.social), which examines the history of Mexican food and Latinx food workers in the US. www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flore...

Writing Latinos, Season 3, Episode 1: Lori Flores on her new book Awaiting Their Feast. @uncpress.bsky.social @dgershenowitz.bsky.social @loriflores.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/lori-a-flore...

The adventure continues! And an update: It's TODAY, Season 3 of Writing Latinos premieres today!! It's live at publicbooks.org.

The view from my office.

Ruben Gallego's approach to resisting Trump is to emphasize how Trump's economic policies are harming everyday Arizonans. I spoke with him twice since the election, and he lays it all out here. Thank you for reading! www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Maybe the honeymoon is over? After a three-month bump, Trump's approval ratings are where they were at on election day. Relatedly, I think, Tesla's stock price, after a similar three month bump, is also where it was at on election day.

New from my Substack, Latinos in Depth--on my visit to the landing site of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. geraldocadava.substack.com/p/the-site-w...

Undocumented immigrants in Chicago are on edge. But what they're experiencing, a psychiatrist at UIC told me, "is a compounded stress; the latest manifestation of years, if not decades, of fear." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

An excellent article here ... www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Just wild to me that they've made reality TV of the ICE operations today in Chicago.

Make America Imperial Again--not that we ever stopped. From inaugural address.

More than bluster: from an executive order called "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness."

More than bluster: from an executive order titled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship"

🚨 With Axios Latino unceremoniously shutdown, it would be cool if folks gave a holiday donation to @latnewsletter.bsky.social an invaluable nonprofit newsletter from @julito77.bsky.social that created new opportunities for Latino journos this year the-latino-newsletter.monkeypod.io/give/support...