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Imperfect Paradise: Are Latino pollsters helping or hurting the Democratic cause?
As Democrats confront declining Latino support across three consecutive presidential elections, a fierce debate is unfolding within the party: Are Latino advocacy groups and polling firms helping or …
Published on 2 months ago
Imperfect Paradise: Trading in the American Dream for the Mexican Dream
For decades, there’s been a persistent story about Mexican immigrants crossing the border for a better life in the United States. But there’s a new trend emerging: Mexicans and Mexican Americans, dis…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Imperfect Paradise: Getting lost in Latina trad wife TikTok
During a flurry of election-related anxiety, Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido re-downloaded TikTok and fell down a very specific rabbit hole: Latina trad wife content. Videos of women waking…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Imperfect Paradise: Did the cellphone ban in high schools work?
On February 18th, 2025, the LA Unified School District, the second largest public school district in the country, implemented an all-day cell phone ban for its students. Now that it’s the end of the …
Published on 3 months ago
Imperfect Paradise: On the ground for LA's historic ICE protests
ICE raids began last Friday across Southern California. People have been detained and there have been confrontations between protesters and law enforcement. What exactly went down and where does Los …
Published on 3 months ago
Imperfect Paradise: Return from Mexico
In 2009, Gloria Arellano de la Rosa was banned from re-entering the U.S. for ten years, finding herself separated from her four children and husband. But unlike Daniel Zamora, she didn’t remake her l…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Inheriting: Nicole & the Third World Liberation Front
Nicole Salaver’s uncle, Patrick Salaver, was one of the leaders of the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s. This movement not only led to the recognition …
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Imperfect Paradise: How the Rent Brigade took on LA’s landlords
In the days after LA’s early-January wildfires, tenant advocate Chelsea Kirk noticed a trend: rent gouging. Rents were shooting up past their legal limit. In the wake of the fires, as natural disaste…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Imperfect Paradise: From ranchers with guns to gurus with crystals: How extremism in the American West has evolved
When Portland, Oregon-based reporter Leah Sottile began covering extremism in the American West a decade ago, she was interviewing ranchers, fundamentalist Mormons and “sovereign citizens” who did no…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Imperfect Paradise: Can Oakland point the way for the future of liberal cities
Journalist Alexis Madrigal is obsessed with the port of Oakland. He even has a tattoo of a shipping container! In his new book, The Pacific Circuit, he makes the case that Oakland is where the real-w…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago