Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernandez has been working to revive the idea of an “enhanced commonwealth” as a status option for Puerto Rico. As El… Read More »A Page from History: Puerto Rico’s Deal with Japan
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
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
