Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Accidentally Doesn’t Take a Bribe

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez Accidentally Doesn’t Take a Bribe

City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez sat at his usual corner booth in Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse, just blocks from Downtown Miami. He and Brazilian real estate magnate João Silveira had just finished a two-hour-long lunch replete with medium rare ribeyes, baked...
Democrats Have a Cuban Problem

Democrats Have a Cuban Problem

It’s actually 187,006 problems, or how many more Cuban Americans are registered as Republicans rather than Democrats in Florida (53% are registered Republicans, 26% are Democrats, and 21% are Independents). But it wasn’t always so! In 2016, Trump only won about half...
Sheltered Latino Just Realized Racism Exists

Sheltered Latino Just Realized Racism Exists

Danny Rodriguez sat 20 stories up a glass and concrete office tower in a corner conference room—surrounded almost exclusively by 10 non-Hispanic White colleagues—shocked, stupefied, flabbergasted even. He had just made what he considered an astute recommendation...
Sheltered Latino Just Realized Racism Exists

What Does a Utopian Miami Look Like?

The alarm sounds, jolting me out of sleep. I must’ve hit snooze a few times because my phone shows that I have exactly one hour to get from my apartment in Downtown Homestead to my job in Brickell, 30 miles away. I smile. No need to rush. I brush my teeth, pull on...
City of Miami Converts Its Hurricane Relief Fund into Dogecoin

City of Miami Converts Its Hurricane Relief Fund into Dogecoin

City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez floated to a podium set before the previous location of a chrome and brass statue of a bull that had long since been stripped of all metal parts by Miamians struggling to pay their rents. All that now remained of the charging bovine...