Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Give nod to Pets’ Trust

OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade Commission should approve cost-effective spay, neuter programs

MIAMI HERALD| EDITORIAL

Internet sales get free ride in Florida

OUR OPINION: All Internet sales companies should collect Florida sales tax, as Amazon will do soon

Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Election fraud: From the streets to cyberspace

OUR OPINION: The Legislature must get tougher on absentee-ballot fraud

Worth a thousand words

The Miami Herald Editorial Board is sharing with our online readers the viewpoints of cartoonists from thro...

Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Don’t fritter away Dolphins’ funds

OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade should spend $2.3 million windfall to improve election process

Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

For Miami’s chronic homeless, more beds needed

OUR OPINION: Miami, advocates can develop a legally sound plan to deal with chronic homelessness

Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Miami’s Silicon Beach

OUR OPINION: South Florida is at a critical juncture to lure global high tech companies and startup capital

SYRIA

Trudy Rubin: All eyes on U.S. policy in Syria

SUPREME COURT

Supreme Court: No proof of citizenship required — sort of

POLITICS

GOP’s leadership challenge: lessons from the UK

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: Congress plots exit from Obamacare coverage

MDX

MDX tolls keep rising: Let your voice be heard

As the mayor of Cutler Bay I have had to field many questions from my constituents about the Miami Dade Exp...

SCHOOL GRADES

Florida’s grading formula a threat to accountability system

In My Opinion

‘Redskins’ is an offensive word, period

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Team’s conduct unbecoming

Shame on the Miami Heat players, team management and the NBA for the deportment of the Heat players during ...

Slippery slope on bilingualism

Recently Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia delivered an entire speech in Spanish on the floor of the U.S. Senate. ...

Abolish death penalty

Gov. Rick Scott’s signing of a bill to shorten the death-penalty appeals process can only court the ...

President sets the tone

The mood, the tone, the ethos, the sly and the slick of all we are discovering in our government’s a...

The readers’ forum

Juneteenth — a celebration of freedom

Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slaver...

Bees not news

Re the June 16 story Miami couple saddened after bee hive destroyed: It must have been a slow news day for ...

Bees could be saved

An experienced bee keeper could have moved the beehive to a less troublesome location; perhaps on the coupl...

For mayor of New York, lesser lights in the big city

Anthony Weiner’s quixotic mayoral candidacy is clearly a bid for redemption, and just as clearly a w...

Clarence Thomas’ legal time machine zooms to 1789

Don’t let the U.S. Supreme Court’s very contemporary cases on gene patenting and same-sex mar...

Master of the muddle: Obama

I have written so many columns about the Syrian civil war they are like rings on a tree stump — a wa...

Why you’re mad at the NSA

“What’s really going on here?” That’s the question I typically ask students to...

We don’t understand female politicians

In 2012, the number of women serving in the U.S. Senate reached a historic high: 20 out of 100. And so we ...

Liberals should lead entitlement reform

If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increa...

Don’t underestimate importance of Rohani victory in Iran

Iran’s presidential election presents a paradox. The vote was free enough for Hassan Rohani to score...

In My Opinion

Carl Hiaasen: Memo on IRS scandal

(Emergency revisions to conference-planning guidelines for the Internal Revenue Service).

In My Opinion

Carl Hiaasen: IRS went after small fry, but let the big ones get away

“Please provide copies of all your current web pages, including your blog posts. Please provide copi...

Carl Hiaasen: Once again, we’re the poster child for scandal

Anyone who thinks the healthcare apparatus in this country doesn’t need radical liposuction should ...

IN MY OPINION

Carl Hiaasen: It’s too easy to become a terrorist

Authorities say that the two brothers who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon were probably “self-r...

In my opinion

Carl Hiaasen: Legislature approves ethics reform — no joke!

Promise not to laugh?

In My Opinion

Carl Hiaasen: Rubio comes up short on gun control

Marco Rubio showed his true yellow colors last week, joining 45 other cowards to defeat Senate legislation ...

STADIUM RENOVATION

Carl Hiaasen: Good news and bad on Dolphins stadium deal

Incredible as it seems, Miami-Dade voters might actually be allowed to decide whether or not tax dollars ar...

In My Opinion

‘Redskins’ is an offensive word, period

See if this makes sense to you:

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Conning Americans to give up privacy

It will not be with guns.

In My Opinion

Toughing out mental illness not an option

I cannot write this the way I want. Doing so would invade the privacy of too many people. But I can’...

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: On Obama scandals, GOP needs to take a breath

You’d think they’d never seen a scandal before.

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Exremism, violence come in all shades and colors

I know this sounds racist, but . . . ”

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: Boy Scouts’ decision shows gay rights are the future

Hold your applause. As milestones go, this one is disappointing.

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: On machete-wielding terrorists in London: Don’t be complicit

I have not seen the video.

In My Opinion

Myriam Marquez: Hope for Cuba one prayer at a time

In her mind’s eye, Elsa Morejón looks from Miami at her beloved island and worries that what ai...

In My Opinion

‘El Super’ explains Cuban exiles’ bittersweet adventure

It was born in the gritty urban realism of exile, circa 1970s. El Super, a low-budget production by Cuban e...

Myriam Marquez | In My Opinion

Myriam Marquez: Beyoncé and Jay-Z in Havana another calibrated Cuba plot

Beyoncé and Jay-Z trotted around their mothers in Havana for the couple’s fifth anniversary, po...

In My Opinion

Myriam Marquez: Yoani Sánchez faces as many questions as explanations from exiles

Forty questions in 80 days.

In My Opinion

Romney’s guilt-free pass to Independents

TAMPA — Tin Man didn’t morph into a cuddly teddy bear at his Republican National Coronation, ...

In My Opinion

Write-in ploy cheats the voters

The state attorney is one of those countywide positions that’s high profile and in the crosshairs of t...

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: Congress plots exit from Obamacare coverage

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: War Party beats drums for action in Syria

Is a dangerous partisan divide really destroying the American government? It’s pretty hard to disce...

IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: Welcome to ‘unwelcome’ speech on campus

I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Beng...

IN MY OPINION

Ugly truth: Sometimes, torture works

IN MY OPINION

Murder? Not if you just kill a baby

Nearly a quarter-century has passed since The Los Angeles Times published a piece by the late David Shaw, t...

IN MY OPINION

Let Pollard finish his sentence

In his book The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten, struggling to define the concept of “chutzpah” ...

IN MY OPINION

Wars end, but the bills last forever

The past is never dead, as William Faulkner might have written if he were analyzing the federal budget, it...