Bill Cooke

Have you seen the latest issue of Der Spiegel? That's normally an odd question in Miami, which is not exactly bursting with subscriptions to Germany's favorite weekly news magazine. But thanks to a brutal cover illustration of Donald Trump holding holding the bloodied, severed head of Lady Liberty, everyone is talking about this week's edition.

On January 29, 2013, Nikki Beach bartender and self-described "party princess" Karlie Tomica slammed her car into a pedestrian walking down Collins Avenue. Stefano Riccioletti, a 49-year-old chef and father of three who was walking to his job at the Shore Club, died on the spot.

Sixty years ago, Miami — or My-am-uh, as many locals called it then — was as Southern, conservative, and deeply religious as any comparably sized town in Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi. Dade County's population was less than a million. The city's afternoon newspaper, the Miami News, printed a daily Bible verse on its editorial page. White males dominated the city's political power structure, businesses, and newspapers, and the word "change" was not in their vocabulary. But change was on the horizon.

Thousands of Miamians have taken to the streets since last week to protest Donald Trump. By all accounts, they've been entirely peaceful. Miami Police Commander Albert Guerra even took to Twitter after a Wynwood protest on Saturday to "thank the protesters for peacefully exercising their [First Amendment] right." But the Miami...

Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco's Sunday routine rarely varies: He begins the day with an early-morning, three-mile jog on Ocean Drive. Yesterday that routine took an unexpected turn. Although Ocean Drive has been bedeviled by crime this year, Grieco says he rarely sees any trouble along the iconic...