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What Is Puerto Rico’s Grand Strategy?
Opinion

What Is Puerto Rico’s Grand Strategy?

Still trapped in a deadlock with no way out

Julio Ortiz Luquis
Julio Ortiz Luquis
Aug 13, 2025
What Trump’s Fiscal Control Board Firings Mean for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

What Trump’s Fiscal Control Board Firings Mean for Puerto Rico

The bondholders are in charge

Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos Berríos Polanco
Aug 8, 2025
What We Know About Trump Firing Five Members of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Control Board
Puerto Rico

What We Know About Trump Firing Five Members of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Control Board

In one word: colonialism

Julio Ricardo Varela
Julio Ricardo Varela
Aug 5, 2025
La invasión 1898/The Invasion 1898
Literature

La invasión 1898/The Invasion 1898

New fiction about July 25 and Puerto Rico

Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago
Jul 25, 2025
End the Statehood Pretendland for Puerto Rico
Opinion

End the Statehood Pretendland for Puerto Rico

The price of admission to the Union is submission to white supremacy

Erica González Martínez
Erica González Martínez
Jul 16, 2025
Tell President Trump That Puerto Ricans Want Sovereignty, Not Statehood
Opinion

Tell President Trump That Puerto Ricans Want Sovereignty, Not Statehood

What kind of nation do we aspire to be?

Julio Ortiz Luquis
Javier A. Hernández
Julio Ortiz Luquis, +1
Jun 24, 2025
Migrants Speak About Fear and Detention in Puerto Rico
Immigration

Migrants Speak About Fear and Detention in Puerto Rico

Escalating immigration enforcement affects even those seeking legal paths to citizenship

Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos Berríos Polanco
Jun 18, 2025
Shutting Off Federal Transfers for Puerto Rico Is a Blessing in Disguise
Opinion

Shutting Off Federal Transfers for Puerto Rico Is a Blessing in Disguise

Cutting the cord is not cruelty. It is liberation.

Javier Ortiz
Javier Ortiz
Jun 6, 2025
To Join the Union, Puerto Rico Must Embrace English
Opinion

To Join the Union, Puerto Rico Must Embrace English

Statehood demands more than political will

Javier Ortiz
Javier Ortiz
May 22, 2025
A National Student Status Fight Reaches Puerto Rico
Immigration

A National Student Status Fight Reaches Puerto Rico

Events are prompting caution within the island’s international campus community

Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos Berríos Polanco
May 19, 2025
Why Puerto Rican Activists Are Fighting a $2 Billion Resort
Puerto Rico

Why Puerto Rican Activists Are Fighting a $2 Billion Resort

Project Esencia is facing resistance from groups in Puerto Rico and New York

Asma Barakat
Asma Barakat
May 13, 2025
Migrant Rights Take Focus at Puerto Rico’s May Day March
Immigration

Migrant Rights Take Focus at Puerto Rico’s May Day March

Workers rally behind communities targeted by federal raids and rising fear

Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos Berríos Polanco
May 6, 2025
The House of Cards Crumbles in San Juan
Opinion

The House of Cards Crumbles in San Juan

Jenniffer González-Colón loses nomination fight, while colony stays in the dark

Susanne Ramirez de Arellano
Susanne Ramirez de Arellano
May 1, 2025
Several Migrants in Puerto Rico Arrested While Trying to Leave the US
News

Several Migrants in Puerto Rico Arrested While Trying to Leave the US

Court records contradict Trump’s self-deportation message

Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos Berríos Polanco
Apr 22, 2025
Who Gets to Define Liberation?
Opinion

Who Gets to Define Liberation?

A response to “Colonial Means to ‘Decolonial’ Ends” and a challenge to conventional frameworks of freedom

Guest Contributor
Guest Contributor
Apr 17, 2025
We’re Opening a San Juan Bureau
News

We’re Opening a San Juan Bureau

From Puerto Rico, with the urgency it deserves

Julio Ricardo Varela
Julio Ricardo Varela
Apr 11, 2025
The Puerto Rican Woman Running for US Senate in Minnesota
Politics

The Puerto Rican Woman Running for US Senate in Minnesota

A bonus audio conversation with Melisa López Franzen

Julio Ricardo Varela
Julio Ricardo Varela
Apr 3, 2025
Tax Reform Is Puerto Rico’s Next Statehood Step
Opinion

Tax Reform Is Puerto Rico’s Next Statehood Step

Economic alignment with the United States is part of the push for equality

Javier Ortiz
Javier Ortiz
Mar 27, 2025
The Hard Truth of Puerto Rico’s Independence Memo
Politics

The Hard Truth of Puerto Rico’s Independence Memo

A direct challenge to the denial surrounding U.S. politics and the future of the island colony

Alberto C. Medina
Alberto C. Medina
Mar 19, 2025
Puerto Rico Independence Memo Tests GOP Interest
Politics

Puerto Rico Independence Memo Tests GOP Interest

A pro-sovereignty group is pushing Republicans to take a position on Puerto Rico

Julio Ricardo Varela
Julio Ricardo Varela
Mar 10, 2025
Funding Cuts, Debt, and the Fight for Renewables
Climate

Funding Cuts, Debt, and the Fight for Renewables

What’s next for Puerto Rico’s energy development?

Jillian Melero
Jillian Melero
Feb 27, 2025
How My Puerto Rican ‘Mother’ Made Me a Global Citizen
Identity

How My Puerto Rican ‘Mother’ Made Me a Global Citizen

Neyda has made me realize that DEI is a personal practice that spreads beyond the borders of America and gave me a perspective that I deeply needed to share to the world

Jad-Évangelo Nasser
Jad-Évangelo Nasser
Feb 17, 2025
In New Trump Era, Diaspora Group Calls for Puerto Rico Independence
News

In New Trump Era, Diaspora Group Calls for Puerto Rico Independence

Boricuas Unidos en la Diáspora issued a Friday statement saying Trump’s return proves independence is Puerto Rico’s only path forward

Julio Ricardo Varela
Julio Ricardo Varela
Feb 3, 2025
Puerto Rico's Dominican Community Terrified After Immigration Raids
Immigration

Puerto Rico's Dominican Community Terrified After Immigration Raids

Fear and uncertainty grow as reports emerge of detentions, racial profiling, and legal confusion

Carlos Berríos Polanco
Carlos Berríos Polanco
Jan 31, 2025
Jenniffer González-Colón’s Honeymoon Is Over
Politics

Jenniffer González-Colón’s Honeymoon Is Over

Scandals, blackouts, and Bad Bunny define her rocky start as governor of Puerto Rico

Susanne Ramirez de Arellano
Susanne Ramirez de Arellano
Jan 22, 2025
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