The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

Military veterans can’t keep waiting

OUR OPINION: VA disability backlogs unacceptable

The Miami Herald | EDITORIAL

DCF’s fatal flaws

OUR OPINION: Child-welfare agency underplays chance of risk, and children suffer

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

GIFT GIVING

Excitement or extortion?

MIDDLE EAST

Frida Ghitis: Iran’s democracy charade

Keep an eye on Iran over the coming weeks. The country is in the process of shedding the final vestiges of ...

CHILDREN & EDUCATION

Lessons from Finland can help our children

LAW & MEDICINE

Angelina Jolie and the case of patented genes

RÍOS MONTT PROSECUTION

Guatemala’s Ríos Montt and an end to impunity

FLORIDA

Michael Putney: Death penalty politics in Florida

CENTRAL AMERICA

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

Our families first

The Pentagon wants $450 million for improving and maintaining the Guantánamo Bay prison. President Oba...

Repeal Obamacare

It is time for Senate Democrats and the president to repeal Obamacare. This law is beyond comprehension, il...

Don’t cut food stamps

Congress appears to be on the verge of making a severe cut in the food-stamp program. Lawmakers seem to agr...

’1984’ revived

I may not always agree with Glenn Garvin, but his informed column on the government’s attempt to con...

Children in peril

When I heard the news about a mother who forgot her baby in the car, I couldn’t believe it. It keeps...

Help this young man

Re the May 22 story Heart patient, 21, waits for transplant approval: Money can’t buy health? Don&#x...

The readers’ forum

Unethical tutors cause Florida’s children to lose out

As a district coordinator for a tutoring company that received an ‘excellent’ rating from the...

Protecting journalists with federal ‘shield law’ a necessity for democracy

Star Trek fantasy meets Livermore reality

MONTEREY, Calif. — If scientists and officials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Californ...

The White House to-do list

When White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told his colleagues last week to spend no more than 10 perc...

The Obamas overdo tough love for black grads

In recent commencement addresses to black college graduates, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama ...

President’s ‘scandals’ could actually hurt Republicans

Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three ma...

Networks serving up schlock

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

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 ...

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