Gregory Rodriguezstudied the sociology of the Latinization of California at UCLA. He has been a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy institute in Washington, D.C., a contributing editor toThe Los Angeles TimesOpinion Section and a political analyst for MSNBC. His work has appeared in many of the nation's leading publications, includingThe New York Times,The Economist,The Washington Post,The Nation, andThe New Republic.