Residents have decried the "aggressiveness" of immigration raids in a U.S. territory without permanent detention centers and ...

On Friday, Federal Judge María Antongiorgi-Jordán ruled that Puerto Rico’s current birth certificate policy “is not supported by a rational basis, and therefore violates the Equal Protection ...

Advocates are asking for policy changes as they commemorate the 6th anniversary of Hurricane Maria that killed more than 3,000 people. Power 4 Puerto Rico, which is a coalition composed of ...

Puerto Rico’s electorate gave the Puerto Rico Independence Party candidate for governor 13.7%, the party’s best showing since 1956. The socially liberal Citizen’s Victory Movement candidate ...

Puerto Rico's upcoming gubernatorial and legislative elections may lead to a new governor but aren't likely to change local policy significantly, observers say. At this stage, the main drama seems ...

Puerto Rico’s economy boomed in the ... coupled with, you know, climate change, and the need to ... Others propose that Congress change territory-specific policies that disadvantage Puerto Rico.

The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for social justice under U.S. colonialism ...

An Urgent Rescue Plan for Puerto Rico. The Biden administration has pledged to provide Puerto Rico—home to more than 3 million U.S. citizens—with the resources and technical assistance it ...

As Puerto Rico works very slowly to restore power to the roughly 80% of the island that remains in the dark after getting smacked from Hurricane Fiona, it’s worth remembering that the “… ...

In the last 90 years, three catastrophic hurricanes have struck Puerto Rico. San Felipe II in 1928 and San Ciprían in 1932 triggered political and economic changes in America’s largest colony ...

A popular uprising ousted the governor of Puerto Rico. But protesters want more change — even if politicians have been slow to ... left because of misconduct, not because of policy failures.

Changes to Puerto Rico’s tax code since 2012 have reduced corporate tax rates to just 4 percent, ... the U.S.-imposed population-control policies, starting in the 1930s, ...