Adam Clark Estes

  • Politics Is Making Puerto Rico’s Problems Harder

    Politics Is Making Puerto Rico’s Problems Harder

    All photos: AP Nearly a week after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, US President Trump finally waived the Jones Act for the island, allowing more emergency supplies reach the battered territory’s shores. The World War I-era law prevented foreign-owned ships from delivering their goods for days, leaving Puerto Rico without enough food, water,…


  • Much Of Puerto Rico Can’t Even Call For Help

    Much Of Puerto Rico Can’t Even Call For Help

    Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico absolutely devastated. We’re talking flattened houses, lost lives, shattered power grids, flooded towns, forests destroyed — devastated. On top of all that, mobile phone service, one of the island’s most important lines of communication, has been almost entirely cut. So many are now struggling just to tell their families they’re…