Here, you will find opinion pieces and articles authored by Carlos on public policy, politics, and current affairs.
- Resisting Mass Deportation Under Donald Trump, The Nation, November 2024
- Here’s why we passed a Northwest Side ordinance to protect affordable housing, Chicago Tribune, October 2024
- Kamala Harris Should Run on Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers, In These Times, August 2024
- Lightfoot’s 2023 budget is her last chance to fulfill campaign promises, Chicago Sun-Times, November 2022
- We Will Transform Chicago Into A City In A Garden, Midwest Socialist, Midwest Socialist, September 2022
- New All-Affordable Housing Development Named After Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, Midwest Socialist, May 2022
- Does "Candyman" Haunt Capitalists in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green?, Jacobin, August 2021
- Tenochtitlan fell to the Spanish 500 years ago this month, South Side Weekly, August 2021
- Chicago, St. Louis should invest in jobs, not more cops, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 2021
- Peru Has a Choice: Democracy or a Return to Dictatorship, Jacobin, June 2021
- How a Socialist City Councilor Won 100% Affordable Housing in a Gentrifying Chicago Neighborhood, Jacobin, June 2021
- Solving America’s Housing Crisis Requires More Democracy, Not Less, Midwest Socialist, May 2021
- Mayor Lightfoot, fulfill your promise and pave the way for funding homelessness-related services, Chicago Tribune, April 2021
- How Undocumented Chicagoans Are Ensuring a True Sanctuary City, South Side Weekly, February 2021
- What to do when higher rents and home prices drive people out of neighborhoods, Chicago Sun-Times, January 2021
- How to Celebrate Easter With La Familia During COVID-19, Latino Rebels, April 2020
- To combat gentrification, state should lift ban on rent control, Crain's Chicago Business, July 2019
- Democrats ignore the left at their peril. Midwesterners aren't scared of socialism — they're hungry for it, NBC News, July 2018