Lawmakers are unlikely to grant Puerto Rico's request for admission into the Union – unless, perhaps, the Democrats win both Senate seats in Georgia's Jan. 5 runoff election.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Puerto Rico
Displaying 1 - 20 of 64 articles
The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was a result of financial neglect – and was a long time coming.
The Arecibo radio telescope has collapsed but its amazing discoveries will live on.
The recent allegations against an ICE facility in the U.S. are part of a long history of forced sterilizations of Indigenous, Latina and Black women.
Extreme weather events prompt people to move, a trend that could accelerate in a warming climate. But the ability to migrate internally in the US depends largely on economic status.
One way in which Latino voters vary is where they or their forebears came from. In states like Florida, that difference matters.
Puerto Rico was once home to about 110,000 Taínos, an indigenous people decimated by the Spanish conquest. Their ancient homeland was located in the area hit hard by recent earthquakes.
Puerto Rico's January earthquakes came after many foreshocks and have been followed by numerous aftershocks. Scientists are studying these sequences to improve earthquake forecasting.
Big storms with lots of flooding, like hurricanes Dorian and Maria, actually restore the Caribbean's delicate balance between native and nonnative fish species, new research finds.
Rosselló's corruption is just the latest in a string of disasters for Puerto Ricans -- but it also created an opportunity for a stressed community to come together.
Trump has repeatedly misconstrued the territory as not being part of the United States. But it is.
It's been one year since a Category 4 storm turned Puerto Rico into a disaster zone. Today, nearly every pillar of society — including the economy, health care and schools — remains hobbled.
As Trump fumes about the Hurricane Maria death toll, it's clear that politics and political considerations often play an important role in how death toll estimates are communicated to the public.
Thousands died after Hurricane Maria, but it did not have to be that way. Early evidence should have led the government to a much stronger response.
While the hurricanes last year dealt devastating blows to Puerto Rico, its challenges predate the storms and continue on today. They also offer new opportunities.
Many countries collect and store rainwater for use during drought or dry seasons. But this technique is rarely used in the Caribbean, where hurricanes can leave people without water for months.
A survey shows that most Puerto Ricans didn't highly rate the official information coming out of the island. With the Institute of Statistics in trouble, the situation is likely not to improve.
The government said 64, journalists said 4,645. What went wrong?
Corruption has made hurricane Caribbean countries' recovery less efficient and more expensive, new research shows. Misuse of funds may also trigger more disaster-related deaths.
The Caribbean braces for another hurricane season even as many nations remain crippled by the catastrophic damage of 2017. Here, experts assess the region's difficult and costly storm recovery.
Top contributors
-
Doctoral student, University of Texas at Austin
-
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Demography, Penn State
-
Senior Lecturer, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
-
Lecturer, Concordia College New York | Journalist-fellow, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Concordia College New York
-
Professor of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
-
Director, Latin American Business Environment program, University of Florida
-
Anthropology Professor, University of Rhode Island
-
Associate Professor of Political Science and El Instituto, University of Connecticut
-
Research Fellow, American University School of Public Affairs
-
Research, Reference and Special Collections Librarian, University of Puerto Rico - Humacao
-
Lecturer in Alternative Energy, University of Oxford
-
Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy, Head of the Astrophysics Group, University of Bath
-
Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Inequalities, Social Justice, and Policy, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
-
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Bath
-
Professor of History and Law Faculty, The Ohio State University
