Politics & Government

It is entirely possible to disagree with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High students behind the #NeverAgain movement and the March for Our Lives without making a total clown out of yourself. Step 1: Don’t spread insane conspiracy theories about the survivors of a massacre. Step 2: Don’t make Nazi comparisons…

Polo shirts: timeless fashion statements that say, “I could be headed to a vigorous round of tennis! But probably I’m headed to work and am simply too lazy for a full button-up.” In Miami-Dade, where a laid-back beach attitude mixed with swampy subtropical weather make full suits as practical as Borat speedos, most office workers rarely wear anything dressier than polos.

There’s been no official announcement, but it sure looks like Donald Trump will travel to Miami this Monday. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records and “sources” speaking to the Miami Herald suggest the president will make a pit stop in the Magic City next week, but so far the White House has been mum on actual details.

David Horowitz, who runs the hard-core-Islamophobic FrontpageMagazine, organizes what he calls a “Restoration Weekend” every year. Past attendees have included Pamela Geller, Jeff Sessions, Nigel Farage, Laura Ingraham, and a slew of lesser-known Islamophobes and random alt-right cretins.

As the world watched U.S. senators this afternoon grill Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg about how his company handles all the personal data it vacuums up, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) exposed that he’s either a massive hypocrite when it comes to data security or simply doesn’t understand how computers work.

Last night, the Miami Marlins played in the Little Havana ballpark that taxpayers are still paying off to the tune of more than $2 billion. No one showed up. The announced attendance of 7,003 was the smallest in a decade for any regular MLB game that wasn’t relocated due to a hurricane or held in a Little League stadium.

The Trump Organization is, technically, run by Donald Trump’s large adult sons, Donald Jr. and Eric. But despite his public statements to the contrary, Trump himself still has an ownership stake in his huge empire of real-estate properties, restaurants that serve nightmarish cocktails, and random buildings with his name slapped onto the sides…

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt for years has been a known shill for energy-industry polluters. But he might have finally committed an act so brazenly corrupt he loses his job: It turns out Pruitt was spending only $50 per day to live in a prime-location D.C. townhouse owned by the family of an ultrapowerful oil-and-utility-industry lobbyist.

Just how deep in trouble is Miami-area U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo? Long before national signs pointed toward a blue tsunami this fall, Democrats had already targeted him — an obvious choice since Hillary Clinton crushed Donald Trump in Curbelo’s district by an eye-popping 16 points.

Roger Stone, South Florida’s infamous political hit man, is not capable of keeping his mouth shut. He has spent decades on the attack, getting called in when, say, politicians want someone to stage a fake riot or smear the parents of a dead American soldier.

Here’s a sentence that perfectly describes the media hellscape in which Americans now live: Mere weeks after he hid in a closet to avoid being murdered in a school shooting, 18-year-old Parkland massacre survivor David Hogg is now the subject of the smear website HoggWatch.com, which has published multiple articles comparing him to a member of the Hitler Youth.

Florida’s law banning ex-felons from voting was written during the Jim Crow era to prevent black people from going to the polls. In February, federal Judge Mark Walker finally threw that racist law out after a group of ex-felons sued, but the judge left the door open for Scott’s office…

When Fidel Castro died in 2016, thousands of Cuban immigrants and their descendants paraded through Miami’s streets waving the Cuban flag. When Donald Trump himself came to speak to a group of Bay of Pigs veterans who’d rebelled against Castro, the Brigade 2506 vets draped a Cuban flag behind the…

Miami Beach is famous for debauchery, not debate. But Saturday morning, more than 3,000 people showed up to protest Florida’s lousy gun laws and the watered down measure that was recently approved by the state legislature. Rapper Flo Rida addressed the crowd. So did singer Emily Estefan, Miami Beach Mayor…

The March for Our Lives today might go down as the largest single-day gun-control and gun-safety march in American history. Thanks to the efforts of a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, 834 marches and rallies are happening today, and Americans from across the nation have traveled to Washington, D.C….

Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has bombed the entire nation to pieces, starved its citizens via a blockade, caused a deadly cholera outbreak, and allegedly attacked innocent people by using illegal chemical weapons such as white phosphorus. The United Nations has repeatedly said the attacks amount to crimes against humanity.

Yesterday Donna Shalala’s campaign told Politico that the congressional candidate’s “name is synonymous with the Democratic Party.” But her record of political donations sure isn’t. Politico’s Marc Caputo revealed that Shalala, the Clinton ally and former University of Miami president now running as a self-proclaimed “progressive”…

Crafting propaganda programs for political campaigns sure is lucrative. Cambridge Analytica, the British-American “internet messaging” outlet caught on hidden-camera footage this week bragging about blackmailing candidates, bribing people, and coordinating with the Trump campaign, seems to have tendrils snaking all over the world, from the U.K. Brexit campaign all the way to Kenya’s last major election in 2017.

To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That’s because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.

At 10 a.m. today, thousands of South Florida students will set down their books and walk out of their classrooms for 17 minutes. Their message is simple: Ban the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that helped Nikolas Cruz murder 17 kids and teachers in Parkland last month.