Blogger’s U.N. visit

The Yoani Sánchez roadshow at the U.N.

Yoani Sánchez at the United Nations, March 21, 2013, New York City:

Politifact Florida

PolitiFact takes Jeb Bush’s driverless=car claim for a test drive

Imagine that while fighting through traffic that you could paint your toenails, play the guitar or read a novel — but safely, because the car would be doing all the driving.

To Our Readers

From the editor: Savoring memories as The Miami Herald enters a new era

For 50 years, the building at One Herald Plaza has been the place we did what we love. But a $50 million new headquarters beckons.

Memorial Day

South Florida vets cope with wounds not always visible

Home from overseas wars, South Floridians cope with wounds that aren’t always visible

Does wanting to tax millionaires more help re-elect Obama?

The White House and congressional Democrats think they have the ideal issue to use against Republicans all year — that the GOP is eager to give tax breaks to the rich.

The war on terror

Why Obama hasn’t closed Guantánamo camps

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Four decades later, men recall King's last campaign

Martin Luther King's final campaign in Memphis was a march into a violent maelstrom of hatred and righteous defiance. Share your thoughts below on our coverage of the anniversary of the assassination and see what other readers are saying.