Álvaro Fernández 384 posts 17 comments

50 years ago last week, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech at the Riverside Church in Harlem against the war in Vietnam that may have sealed his fate. Known as the 'Beyond…
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Eight years. That’s the amount of time Republicans had to come up with a better plan to replace the one President Barack Obama presented and passed. Instead, the Affordable Health Care…
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The junior senator from Florida is in a bind these days. Nobody seems to want him — in their office buildings. We’re already at two — offices in Tampa and Jacksonville — who have told…
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Pretend for a minute that we’re back to 2013 and President Obama has just won his second term in office. The news media is saturated with the strong possibility that several Obama…
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In a ruling rebuking the cowardly performance of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez and nine county commissioners, Judge Milton Hirsch sided with the basic rights of a human being and…
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Bridge builders to Cuba have been around since the 1960s. There are differences between these early engineers of peaceful dialogue and those that are being heralded today. Surely,…
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The Trump administration has instituted a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency. It has has also ordered a "temporary suspension" of all new business activities at the…
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If there is one thing I agree with Donald Trump on is his reference to Marco Rubio as “Little Marco.” And on Monday, Sen. Rubio, once again, lived up to the pejorative nickname Trump…
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We live in a society that does not make it easy on women. Many pioneering women have too often been relegated to becoming hidden figures of history, only later to be dug out like a…
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He is not a man of eloquence. His life appears limited to 140 characters at a time, which includes carefully studied sound bites. His choppy discourse often evokes a vulgar American…
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