“It was remarkable to see a mayor of one of the largest and most diverse and vibrant immigrant communities in the nation be the first to capitulate” to Mr. Trump’s threat.
Tim Padgett
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The Fort Lauderdale airport shooting reflects our out of control gun laws
The Sunshine State, a.k.a. the Gunshine State, considers itself a Second Amendment haven.
![Baie de Grand Goâve. (Photo by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Julio Rivera [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)](https://i0.wp.com/www.americamagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/us_navy_100123-n-7508r-051_a_haitian_citizen_flies_an_american_flag_on_his_bicycle_as_a_display_of_appreciation_to_u.s._service_members_supporting_operation_unified_response-364405.jpg?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1)
Posted inPolitics & Society, Signs Of the Times
How Haitian-Americans are finding their voice in politics and the church
Haitian expatriates have long considered themselves a “dissed” diaspora—in both their new country and the old.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
How do you achieve peace after 50 years of civil war?
“Many people in South Florida have bought this black propaganda that I am giving the country away to the Communists,” President Juan Manuel Santos said. “This is nonsense.”
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Venezuela proves the suicidal perils of following any dogma to the extreme
“They’re telling Venezuelans to eat fried rocks.”
Posted inSigns Of the Times
A Capitalist Mission in Cuba
The Catholic Church is vying with Communism by teaching Cubans capitalism.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
The rise of the Catholic Church in Cuba
The church has become Cuba’s only real alternative institution to the revolution itself.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
The death penalty is on trial in Florida
This is turning out to be more complicated than simply tweaking flawed legislation.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Mexico’s ‘Narco-Alms’ Problem
Drug kingpins are expert at cultivating Robin Hood images.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Overdue Alliance in Florida Straits
It was one of the more absurd moments of America’s Cuba policy.In 2011, as the Communist island began drilling for what may be billions of barrels of oil off its northern coast, a legitimate fear gripped the United States. That was the specter of an oil spill, a BP-style disaster choking the F