Gregory Rodriguez

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Director of the Center for Social Cohesion at the New America Foundation and op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times; author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America

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Forty-four years ago—well before the advent of the mobile phone, Wi-Fi, and social media—fabled futurist Alvin Toffler predicted a “historic decline in the significance of place to…

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