To Our Readers

Herald reporter tracks weapons in public schools

The Miami Herald set out on a fact-finding mission about weapons and schools, and produced this Sunday’s front-page story.

Civil Rights

Black Gridiron: Orange Blossom Classic -The first black Rose Bowl

On the afternoon before the Orange Blossom Classic in December 1967, as the Grambling Tigers ran wind sprints in their sweat suits on a junior college’s practice field in Miami, two buses glided to a halt across the street. Out of them poured the hundred players on the Florida A&M; Rattlers, clad in full uniforms, even though their pregame drills were to be held in a park 12 miles away.

Coping with Climate Change

To understand climate change, a journey to Greenland can reveal a great deal about the global debate.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

A reporter’s search for truth and justice ends with one man’s death

Anthony McKinney, 53, spent nearly 35 years in prison for a murder that journalism students helped prove he didn’t commit.

SYRIA

How Assad might strike back if attacked by U.S.

The United States is not alone in its delicate balancing act in Syria. President Bashar Assad, too, must carefully weigh his options if his country is attacked.

To Our Readers

Herald education team: from classrooms to football fields

The work for the Miam Herald team of journalists who cover schools started long before the first bell rang.

Full text of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

August 28, 1963

FOREIGN POLICY

U.S.-Russia relationship turns chilly, again

The two countries have experienced repeated highs and lows since the Soviet years.

Abedin’s defense of her husband deals a setback for women

By standing by her husband and condoning his humiliating behavior, Huma Abedin is making all women look like weak and helpless victims.

IN THE CAMPS

Ramadan gives glimpse of peace at restive Guantánamo prison

Islam’s holy month, which ends next week, has been a gloomy but less contentious one at Guantánamo for detainees after months of lockdown and hunger striking.

POLITICS

Inside the immigration bill: Details, bureaucracy and pork

Few lawmakers probably read the 1,198-page blueprint for overhauling the nation’s immigration system. But we did.

Race: The story we are not telling

The following is an address Leonard Pitts gave to the Florida Press Association and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors last week.

To Our Readers

Our team will help readers navigate health care reform

Will health insurance premiums increase when health care reform goes into effect? Will Florida legislators accept nearly $50 billion from the federal government to expand Medicaid? Who will qualify for a subsidy?

IRS may have targeted conservatives more broadly

While the developing scandal over the IRS’s targeting of conservatives has largely focused on its scrutiny of groups with words such as “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, new examples could point to a secret political vendetta within the government against conservatives.

Memorial Day

South Florida vets cope with wounds not always visible

Home from overseas wars, South Floridians cope with wounds that aren’t always visible

Does wanting to tax millionaires more help re-elect Obama?

The White House and congressional Democrats think they have the ideal issue to use against Republicans all year — that the GOP is eager to give tax breaks to the rich.

The war on terror

Why Obama hasn’t closed Guantánamo camps

The president is himself a prisoner, hemmed in by rules that make releasing captives nearly impossible.

CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare

A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuses on the CIA’s prominent role.

With tour lined up, Palin's looking more like a candidate

Since former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shot to fame after her 2008 vice presidential bid, she's kept her intentions — if not her ambitions — closely held. But on Thursday, Palin's ambitions began to look increasingly presidential. Her political action committee announced that she'd launch a multi-state tour over the Memorial Day weekend, beginning at a motorcycle rally in Washington and winding its way up the East Coast to New Hampshire, the site of the nation's first presidential primary.