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 ...

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

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.

Jose Fuentes, chairman of the Washington-based Puerto Rico Statehood Council, said now is the time for Congress to put Puerto Rico “on the road to statehood” by bringing its tax, education and ...

Puerto Rico has been down this path before and thus far hasn’t made much headway. Like many times before, there's all kinds of politics mixed up in the Puerto Rico quest to be a state.

Bermúdez Zimmerman, who attended college in Puerto Rico, said she supports the idea of statehood, if that’s what the people of the island want. The referendum, held in November, showed a narrow ...

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 ...

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.