After yet another pro-statehood vote by the people of Puerto Rico, and strong Latino political support for Donald Trump, the cause of making Puerto Rico the 51st state should take on renewed urgency.

If U.S. citizenship for Puerto Ricans is no longer secure, then neither is the colonial arrangement that produced it.

With this in mind, it’s time to wake up from Pretendland because Puerto Rico deserves more than an invitation to erase itself. The fever dream of statehood, of assimilation without annihilation, is ...

Topline. A bipartisan group of legislators has signed on to sponsor the 2021 Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act, which has been formally introduced to set up a pathway for the U.S. island to ...

Reporting from San Juan, Puerto Rico — Puerto Ricans have long felt like second-class U.S. citizens. The island lacks voting representation in Congress or any power in presidential elections ...

Statehood for Puerto Rico, however, does not have nearly the same partisan prospects as statehood for Washington. The conflation of the two is a political miscalculation.It’s true that if the.

The Puerto Rican flag flies in front of Puerto Rico’s Capitol in San Juan. A total of 52% of voters approved U.S. statehood for Puerto Rico in a recent vote, but as a guest columnist says, that ...

Puerto Rico has been a U.S. territory since the Spanish American War in 1898, and its residents are U.S. citizens, but they have no vote for president or representation in Congress.

A Puerto Rican is poised to be elected to lead LULAC, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights group started by Mexican Americans and back statehood for Puerto Rico.

Leaders of the Puerto Rican diaspora in Florida reacted to a new proposal seeking statehood for the U.S. territory. The new legislation was introduced Tuesday by Florida Rep. Darren Soto and ...

After yet another pro-statehood vote by the people of Puerto Rico, and strong Latino political support for Donald Trump, the cause of making Puerto Rico the 51st state should take on renewed urgency.