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Puerto Rico’s population has been shrinking for about two decades. In recent years, the pace of population loss has slowed. The chart above shows that… Read More »Puerto Rico’s Population Loss Slows

Adult U.S. citizens generally expect to be able to vote for the President of the United States. If they live in one of the territories… Read More »A Congressional Task Force on Territories’ Voting Rights

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