The island of Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War. Although the usual narrative is ...

A new study found that people living in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands reported worse overall physical health ...

In 1993, a non-binding vote taken in Puerto Rico showed most citizens still wanted to maintain their commonwealth status with the United States, while the possibility of statehood came in second.

What exactly are we being protected from? Since 2017, Puerto Rico has been governed by a succession of pro-statehood leaders, each echoing the promise of the 1950s: that U.S. citizenship — in a ...