Published books

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security hold some of the most formidable powers of the federal government: the power to charge, to imprison, to detain, and to deport. For decades, unwritten norms kept those powers away from partisan politics.…

Nine justices, appointed for life, have the final word on abortion, voting rights, the power of federal agencies, the limits of the presidency, and money in politics. For most of the nation's history they were bound by no mandatory code of ethics, and even today no one outside the Court can investigate or sanction them.…

The Constitution forbids any federal officeholder from accepting, without the consent of Congress, "any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever" from a foreign king, prince, or state. The founders wrote that rule because they feared a foreign government could buy an American official's loyalty with gifts.…

Between 1945 and 1974, when the American economy grew, wages grew with it — for the factory worker, the teacher, and the executive alike. Then the pattern broke. A 2020 RAND Corporation study calculated that if income for the bottom 90 percent of Americans had kept pace with the economy, they would have earned roughly $47 to $50 trillion more between 1975 and 2018. Updated estimates now exceed $60 trillion.

The $60 Trillion Question traces where that money went and how. It examines the 1981 tax cuts, the PATCO strike and the decline of organized labor, the 1982 rule change that opened the door to stock buybacks, the widening gap between productivity and pay, and what Federal Reserve data show about who owns America today.…

This book presents a practical clean-energy program built around wind farms, electricity-generating turbines, rooftop and community solar, large solar installations, energy storage, transmission, and a dependable modern grid. The goal is reliable and affordable power, not technology for its own sake.

The program includes a national charging network along roads and highways and at shopping centers, workplaces, apartments, public parking areas, and rural travel corridors. Charging stations should meet clear standards for uptime, pricing, payment methods, disability access, safety, and available grid capacity.…

Long before the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, Mexican American families were already fighting for their place in America.

Roots of Resistance, the first book of the Chicano Civil Rights series, follows them from the 1920s through World War II. Mexican workers were recruited to build the railroads and harvest the crops of the Southwest. Then, when the Great Depression struck, they were blamed and sent away. In the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of people were pressured or forced to leave for Mexico, and many of them were U.S. citizens, most of them children. Banks and federal housing rules kept families out of homes, and schools trained their children for the fields and factories instead of for college.…

After World War II, Mexican American veterans came home expecting the equality they had fought for. What they found were segregated schools, all-white juries, restaurants that refused to serve them, and neighborhoods banks would not lend in. This second book of the Chicano Civil Rights series tells how they fought back and how the national civil rights revolution changed America from 1945 to 1968.…

In the 1960s, two groups of people set out to change the institutions that controlled their lives: farmworkers in the vineyards of California and students in the high schools of East Los Angeles.

This third book of the Chicano Civil Rights series tells how Filipino farmworkers led by Larry Itliong walked out of the Delano grape fields in September 1965, and how Cesar Chávez, Dolores Huerta, and the Mexican American members of the National Farm Workers Association voted to join them. Together they built a union that growers and politicians said was impossible, carried a national grape boycott into supermarkets across the country, and won the first farmworker contracts and, in 1975, California's landmark farm labor law.…

On August 29, 1970, between 20,000 and 30,000 people marched peacefully through East Los Angeles to protest the Vietnam War. By the end of the afternoon, sheriff's deputies had broken up the rally, Whittier Boulevard was burning, and three people were dead, among them Rubén Salazar, the most prominent Mexican American journalist in the country.…

El 29 de agosto de 1970, decenas de miles de personas marcharon pacíficamente por el bulevar Whittier, en el Este de Los Ángeles, contra la guerra de Vietnam. Al final de la tarde, el mitin había sido disuelto con gas lacrimógeno y había tres muertos. Uno de ellos era Rubén Salazar, el periodista mexicoamericano más destacado del país.

Este último libro de la serie narra ese día y los años que lo rodearon:
- Vietnam y el sacrificio desigual: las bajas latinas y los héroes mexicoamericanos
- El movimiento nacional contra la guerra, de los teach-ins a Kent State y Jackson State
- Los Boinas Cafés, la Clínica Gratuita El Barrio y Las Adelitas de Aztlán
- La Moratoria Chicana y la muerte de Rubén Salazar, con las preguntas que siguen sin respuesta…