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

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Closer to the brink

OUR OPINION: Increase in greenhouse gases reaches ominous milestone

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Miami-Dade unions face tough medicine to ensure county’s fiscal health

OUR OPINION: Miami-Dade County government workers will need to keep contributing to their health insurance

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Everglades on the line

OUR OPINION: Senate needs to act on vital water legislation

PAKISTAN

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

MELTING ARCTIC

Melting Arctic requires U.S. action

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...

NEW TRAVEL RULES

Leaving Castro’s Cuba behind

The first wave of Cubans — many of them for the first time in 50 years — are leaving their is...

MIAMI HERALD MOVE

Miami Herald memories from the kitchen to the newsroom

HIGHER EDUCATION

Pell grants for poor students can change lives so let’s fix the system not dynamite it

CUBA REFORMS

Oedipus in Havana

Who’s responsible for Benghazi?

The May 19 letter Let me out of GOP offers a simplistic explanation of the Benghazi attack. But many quetio...

Sacred character

“God created man in His image; he created him, male and female He created them.” Gen 1:7

Tea party not qualified

I would like to know exactly what social welfare projects the tea partiers have in mind, and what percentag...

Give Congress a reality check

Letter writer Ann Chitty spoke of how members of Congress live in Washington, D.C., a showcase city, with g...

Tax break for Dolphins

It’s interesting how people look at expenditures from the state and cities. Are you aware of how man...

The readers’ forum

Creativity abounds for the mentally ill

National Art Exhibitions by The Mentally Ill Incorporated (NAEMI) is proud to celebrate its 25th year of ex...

Transparency for hospital pricing needed

Focusing on treatment variations by hospital is, at best, misguided and at worst, a complete distraction fr...

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...

Almost nothing Obama says can be taken at face value

It turns out that President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget is no more trustworthy than the ...

How Obama can rescue his presidency from faux scandals

Here’s the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to ...

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...

Bring back managed trade to help workers’ safety

If all it took were official cajoling, public shaming, technical assistance or corporate promises, factory ...

IRS tax-exempt rules are the real scandal

It’s strange how “scandal” gets defined these days in Washington. At the moment, ever...

Putin’s power grab trumps nanotechnology

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s changing attitude toward two giant government-led high-tech proje...

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

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!

Leonard Pitts: Reese Witherspoon’s bratty question: Do you know who I am?

This is for the rest of us.

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