The political toll of infidelity

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.

Political dissent

Are corporations the same as people?

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

All this campaign lacks: Ralph Nader

What’s up with Ralph?

Time to end the hero worship of coaches

In a recently televised ESPN interview of legendary basketball coaches Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski, on the occasion of the latter’s record-breaking 903rd victory, Krzyzewski, who played for Knight, referred to him with the devotional title, as in, “Coach and I … share this moment together,” while the two sat side by side.

Penn State girl falls out of love

On Sept. 11 I watched as so many good people put their lives in peril to save others, and I wondered whether I would have had the courage to do the same. I doubt it. But there were no burning towers at Penn State. Doing the right thing to protect a small boy would have taken very little.

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Student journalist discovers Occupy Wall Street

What a Florida student journalist found when he drove to New York City to cover Occupy Wall Street.

Old history exposes new dirty tricks

The foreign policy chapter of the official CIA history also exposes new spy agency lies and manipulations, sometimes called dirty tricks, in America’s bid to cover up the clandestine training of Cuban exiles.

CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare

A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuses on the CIA’s prominent role.

With tour lined up, Palin's looking more like a candidate

Since former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shot to fame after her 2008 vice presidential bid, she's kept her intentions — if not her ambitions — closely held. But on Thursday, Palin's ambitions began to look increasingly presidential. Her political action committee announced that she'd launch a multi-state tour over the Memorial Day weekend, beginning at a motorcycle rally in Washington and winding its way up the East Coast to New Hampshire, the site of the nation's first presidential primary.

TO OUR READERS

A year’s worth of agony, hope, courage in one-hour documentary

This Tuesday, on the eve of the first-year commemoration of the earthquake that killed an estimated 300,000, The Miami Herald will have a premiere screening of Nou Bouke: Haiti’s Past, Present and Future, a one-hour documentary that is a collaboration between The Herald, El Nuevo Herald, award-winning filmmaker Joe Cardona and WPBT Channel 2, one of South Florida’s PBS affiliates.

IN MY OPINION

Stadium plan a 'bifurcated rip-off'

The Dolphins will seek a new state law that could increase bed taxes in both Miami-Dade and Broward, and would allow Broward officials to send its revenues across the county line to help renovate the football stadium. This is what you call a bifurcated rip-off.

IN MY OPINION

Don't censor Mark Twain's N word

While intentions to delete the N word from 'Huck Finn' are good, the fix is profoundly wrong. Here's why.

CULTURE WARS

The politics of coming out of the closet

George W. Bush's 2004 campaign manager announced recently that he is gay. The reaction has been a primer on the politics of sexual identity.

GAYS IN THE MILITARY

Gay sailor Keith Meinhold, who fought for his career, is still vigilant

Keith Meinhold of Miami Shores doesn't want to be known simply as the ``gay sailor.'' But he is gay, he did serve in the Navy, and he played a pivotal public role in the events leading up to today's rekindled debate over whether gays can serve openly in the military.

ISSUES AND IDEAS

In Haiti, funerals become eulogies for a nation

Death in Haiti takes a twisted turn for the Miami Herald's Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles.

Budget cuts: Where the hurt is

Miami-Dade Commission budget cuts are affecting more than the bottom line.

TO OUR READERS

New series explores 50 years of events that bound U.S., Cuba

From the day she landed on one of the Freedom Flights as an excited, frightened 7-year-old, Luisa Yanez has been fascinated by the massive U.S. airlift that brought her and 265,000 other Cubans to the United States four decades ago.

NORTHWESTERN HIGH GRADUATION

Mom attends killed son's Northwestern High graduation

A young victim's mother made the difficult decision to attend a graduation ceremony in his place.

OVERTOWN

Overtown grandmother haunted by loved one's violent death

A grandmother who thought she'd always live in her neighborhood has lost two loved ones and now just hopes to get out.

VIOLENCE CLAIMING YOUNG BLACKS

Bound in grief as violence continues

It's a club nobody wants to be part of: parents of killed children who come together to comfort one another and try to end the cycle of senseless violence.