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Thirty two current states were once territories, like Puerto Rico. All of them had anti-statehood factions and faced struggles to become states. Kansas had a… Read More »Anti-Statehood Arguments against Kansas

The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2025” report has awarded San Juan, Puerto Rico, an A for air quality. In fact, Sean Juan… Read More »“State of the Air 2025” Recognizes San Juan Air Quality

Breitbart announced that President Trump had fired 5 of the 7 members of the PROMESA Fiscal Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) last week. While the… Read More »Trump Fires Most of the PROMESA Board

Puerto Rico is known as the Medicine Cabinet of the United States for good reason: the territory exports far more pharmaceuticals than any state, has… Read More »Puerto Rico: Medicine Cabinet of the United States

Gentrification, the process of high-income people moving into traditionally low-income neighborhoods and fixing up the properties they buy, has a lot in common with colonialism.… Read More »Gentrification and Colonialism in Puerto Rico

On Sunday, members of the New Progressive Party (NPP) convened at the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan to celebrate the… Read More »Pro-Statehood Passions on Display on Barbosa’s Birthday

Puerto Rico, with input from the U.S. Congress, produced a constitution for the territory on July 25, 1952. The constitution made no change in the… Read More »The Significance of the Puerto Rico Constitution

At a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee in 2023, members of Congress discussed the threats to U.S. national security arising from China’s involvement… Read More »When Congress Considered – and Rejected – a Path to U.S. Citizenship for Freely Associated States

On June 25, 2025, Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon signed the first certified balanced budget bill since the PROMESA Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB) was established… Read More »Puerto Rico’s Balanced Budget Bill