Mary Sanchez
Born and raised in Kansas City, Mo., with family roots in Mexico, Mary Sanchez brings an uncommon perspective to the issues that tend to divide Americans into "us" and "them." A reporter foremost, Sanchez has spent years covering immigration, schools and other volatile beats for The Kansas City Star.
Now an editorial columnist for the Star, Sanchez understands that Latinos in the U.S. -- now the largest minority group, with more than 40 million people -- make up a number of diverse and complex communities. Commentary on immigration, culture and politics needs to reflect that fact -- the one-size-fits-all approach no longer works.
Across the United States, some Latinos are prospering and gaining political power, while others, particularly new immigrants, are running up against a changing mood in the American public. Making sense of all these currents requires a reporter's instinct for discovering how issues play out on the street, at work and in the lives of ordinary people.
That's what Mary Sanchez strives for in her writing -- an understanding of the issues from all sides, and an incisive, compelling voice to illuminate these issues in new ways.
Mary Sanchez Samples
When will military get serious about reforming its culture of sexual hostility?
Apparently, May was Harass Your Female Subordinates Month in the U.S. military.
Responsibility for Asian sweatshop safety lies with us, too
Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I'm partly to blame. The evidence of my complicity sits idle on the landing, next to a tennis racquet. Asics shoes.
Conservativism needs to purge eugenics obsession
Jason Richwine is a type in American politics. He holds a doctorate from Harvard. Sure, his work is perfumed with the air of scholarly respectability, but his eugenics-based beliefs bear more than a whiff of white supremacism.
Selling guns to kids, legally: Only in America!
She stepped out onto the front porch, poured grease out of a frying pan for the dogs and "heard the gun go off."
Usual suspects using terror attacks to bludgeon immigration reform
The newly unveiled George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has occasioned a lot of reflection on our last president's accomplishments and failures. There are lessons within those walls.
Wasn't Sandy Hook enough?
Is a modern day Emmett Till necessary to upend America's state of denial about gun violence? For those who go looking, there are detailed verbal accounts of the carnage that happened behind the walls of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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