The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

South Florida regaining lost ground

OUR OPINION: Overall, the state’s budget moves in right direction

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Stopping Medicare fraud

OUR OPINION: Tougher scrutiny by frontline administrators required

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Miami-Dade water fee must increase for health’s sake

OUR OPINION: Overdue upgrades to sewer, water system costly but necessary

IMMIGRATION: THROUGH THE EYES OF JIM MORIN

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Dressed to kill

OUR OPINION: Higher safety standards needed for garment workers in poor countries

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Administration in disarray

OUR OPINION: President must show more leadership and decisiveness

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Closer to the brink

OUR OPINION: Increase in greenhouse gases reaches ominous milestone

FLORIDA

Michael Putney: Death penalty politics in Florida

CENTRAL AMERICA

Sen. Robert Menendez: How to deal with the growing security crisis in Central America

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...

APPAREL INDUSTRY

On Asian sweatshops Americans share blame

Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I’m...

MARCH ON INNOVATION

Immigration reform: the final battle

PAKISTAN

Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif’s third chance to get it right

D.C. SCANDALS

D.C. scandals need to be put in perspective

Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It’s a bad stretch with an un...

DCF is disgraceful

Re the May 21 article DCF deemed boy safe before he was left in vehicle: It’s unbelievable that the ...

Indifferent to despair

There are a lot of decent people working for the IRS who are being hurt by the blunders we’ve seen, ...

Castro’s sad history

Re Jose Azel’s May 18 article, Oedipus in Havana: Fidel Castro’s only success has been in his...

Remedial courses necessary

Re the May 15 article MDC helps students discover potential: After having taught mathematics for 37 years a...

The readers’ forum

Screening tests unfair to some students

Re Eduardo Padron’s May 19 Other Views article, Pell grants for poor students can change lives so le...

Protect foster kids

I recently completed 57 months as a house parent in a residential-care home for foster children in Key West.

Where was Obama during attack?

On five Sunday television talk shows, the Obama administration sent out senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer to down...

Kudos to those who graduated in four years

For the college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor’s degree long after graduation ...

Tornadoes sound like eerie silence — then evil

Does a killer tornado really sound like a freight train?

Networks serving up schlock

Networks are generally leery of shows that are set in the past.

Jerry Brown’s best chance to save California

It has been 35 years since California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, a measure that, as Gov...

The issue behind Syria’s civil war

I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was terrifying — much more so than I anticipat...

On spying and Moscow rules

The arrest of the American diplomat, Ryan Fogle, in Moscow last week, was a journey to an earlier era, a th...

How a Texas paper brought down con man Billie Sol Estes

Billie Sol Estes, the Texan con man whose exploits rattled the administrations of Presidents John F. Kenned...

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...

Carl Hiaasen | In My Opinion

Carl Hiaasen: NRA’s task is to frighten, sell more guns

The National Rifle Association wants to give me a “heavy-duty” duffel bag.

In My Opinion

Why ‘coming out’ matters

Mark Carson was shot in the face because he’s gay.

In My Opinion

Leonard Pitts: On death penalty, wrongly accused are victims, too

At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

In My Opinion

Just bad judgment, or something worse?

Leonard Pitts: On guns and the Great American Panic Machine

It should’ve been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn’t hear it.

In My Opinion

Pennsylvania woman ran to Key West — where else?

Brenda Heist wanted to run away from life. Naturally, she went to Key West.

In My opinion

Leonard Pitts: Texas case exposes racial bias in death penalty for Duane Buck

If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it’ll be because he is black.

In My Opinion

Jason Collins breaks barriers coming out with a boom!

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

Juan Clark opened my eyes to the ‘why’

It was an evening class in Kendall that opened my weary mind after a day’s work to why societies are...

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: 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...

IN MY OPINION

A license to kill — competition

It’s soooooo tempting to start this column with a joke about the first class-action lawsuit on beha...

Screen gems

The week ahead at the movies and on TV