Two years after an unprecedented and unimaginable natural disaster, Haiti still mourns its dead, struggles to rebuild, has had to cope with cholera and has seen international assistance fall victim to donor fatigue.

Enrique López Oliva remembers the days when Cuban Catholics hung their religious icons in their grandmother’s rooms, hoping that Fidel Castro’s communist government would not dare punish an “abuelita.”

Pink. Yellow. Green. Blue.

Thirty-five years ago, Dade passed a gay-rights law, helping fuel the culture wars that still rage, especially during primaries.

Bucking anti-tax sentiment, animal advocates are petitioning on behalf of a levy to help treat unwanted pets more humanely.

Fourteen months since his last trip to Haiti, Jose Iglesias landed in Port-au-Prince last month with his video camera in hand, looking for the images that captured this chapter in the country’s post-quake recovery.

The president is himself a prisoner, hemmed in by rules that make releasing captives nearly impossible.

If you are over a certain age, you probably remember The Amazing Kreskin. He was the affable, animated “mentalist” who performed entertaining feats on the <span class="italic"> Tonight Show </span>during that program’s Johnny Carson heyday. His shtick (he is said to have guested a record 88 times) sometimes involves a deck of playing cards, reading someone’s thoughts and having the audience hide his performance fee.

When Pam Tebow was counseled to abort her baby to save her own life, the doctor referred to him as a “mass of fetal tissue.”

Should men with troubled pasts coach young kids? One city is taking a nuanced approach.

For two years, Judy Gross has taken a quiet approach to trying to get her husband, Alan, freed from a Cuban jail. Now she’s speaking out.

Herman Cain’s presidential campaign implosion put some of the Republican Party’s most active voters in a distinctly uncomfortable position: deciding whether to abandon an accused adulterer to side with an admitted adulterer.

Rumblings over the Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United’ decision continue, at Occupy Wall Street protests and now even among some local politicians.