Throughout Puerto Rico’s history, it has been governed by the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP) or the pro-commonwealth Popular Democratic Party (PPD).While third-party candidates have ...

Puerto Rico's pro-independence party looked like it had little chance to win the island's gubernatorial race — until vile comments were made about the U.S. territory at a Trump rally last week.

Puerto Rico is particularly vulnerable to climate disasters, but its colonial relationship with the United States prevents it from protecting itself.

The highest political officeholder on the island is the governor, but she does not have full control over Puerto Rico’s finances—those are managed by an oversight board created by the U.S ...

The battle for Puerto Rican voters has been particularly pronounced in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state that is home to the third-largest population of Puerto Ricans outside the island ...

Puerto Rico’s governor has pledged to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected as anger intensifies over chronic power outages and an ...

This sentiment is strongly echoed on the island itself, where people in Puerto Rico are fed up with their colonial status, as political anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla explains in her excellent New ...