The rate of adults without health insurance across the U.S. dropped nearly twice as much as in Texas from 2013 to 2015, according to a new report released today by Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation.

Confusion over Texas' voter photo identification requirement potentially discouraged as many as 9 percent of registered voters from going to the polls in the November 2014 elections in the Latino-majority U.S. Congressional District 23 (CD-23), according to a new study.

Nonresident fellow Gary Hale, former chief of intelligence in the Houston Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration, pulls no punches in a blog on the escape of Mexican drug lord Chapo Guzman.

The relationship between Mexico and Texas is in dire need of reassessment, given the chasm between the reality of the countries’ economic and cultural relationship and the political rhetoric that surrounds it.

In Texas, Hispanics and women showed the largest reductions in rates of uninsured since enrollment began under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report released June 2 by the Baker Institute for Public Policy and Episcopal Health Foundation.

On Jan. 12-13, 2015, the Baker Institute Latin America Initiative and Mexico Center, in conjunction with the AJC's Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, hosted the symposium "Co-Responsibility and Reform: Foreign and Domestic Perspectives on Immigration." The organizers convened a select group of stakeholders — including diplomats, policy experts, scholars, journalists, activists and government officials — to explore foreign and domestic immigration policies and develop recommendations for effective strategies on both sides of the border.

By Clay S. Conrad

Jury nullification — when a jury disagrees with the law and acquits a defendant they believe to be…

Leading U.S. immigration experts, public policy scholars and political figures debate issues and solutions to crucial questions surrounding comprehensive immigration reform.

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To what extent and in which contexts is…

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Abstract

This paper discusses the Latino…