Gustavo Arellano

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

The Department of Homeland Security’s “sanctuary jurisdiction list” has more holes than the plot for the latest “Mission Impossible” film. All you need to know about its accuracy is how my native Orange County fared.

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

This month saw your humble columnist notch two huge literary achievements, the kind ink-stained wretches dream about. I was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in the commentary category for my coverage last year about the political evolution of Latinos, making me just the third-ever Latino to achieve that distinction. Maybe even more impressive, however, was that portions of a column I wrote a few years ago became mandatory reading for hundreds of thousands of high schoolers across the country.

4 weeks ago | gustavoarellano.beehiiv.com | Gustavo Arellano

Gentle cabrones: I’ve been listening to Howard Stern now for 33 years, and I’ll listen to him until I die as long as I can hear the repeats (F Jackie). He’s far more tame nowadays than what you may think he is. He’s basically a wokoso unless you’re talking Israel (Hey now).

4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

Guess who suddenly has a “TACO” allergy? President Yuge Taco Salad himself. In the annals of four-letter words and acronyms Donald Trump has long hitched his political fortunes on, the word “taco” may be easy to overlook. There’s MAGA, most famously. DOGE, courtesy of Elon Musk. Huge (pronounced yuge, of course). Wall, as in the one he continues to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. “Love” for himself, “hate” against all who stand in his way.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Gustavo Arellano

Last February, I wrote about my visit to Frank del Olmo Elementary, located on the outskirts of Historic Filipinotown northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the death of its namesake, the legendary Times columnist and masthead editor whom this paper and city swore we would never forget when he tragically passed away of a heart attack at just 55 — and then we mostly did.