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For a generation, the Republican party has thrived despite, or because of, two kinds of lightness: the lack of weight of their ideas and the lily-white complexion of their leaders and…
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Donald Trump’s picks so far indicate he will be surrounded by the richest cabinet ever. This is one of the early signs of what we knew all along, that Trump’s endless talk about “taking…
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As Cuba increasingly welcomes foreign investment, some worry whether the nation’s relatively sophisticated system of environmental laws and regulations and its natural land and marine…
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The demonizers celebrated on Calle Ocho this weekend. But most Cubans in Miami, whatever they thought about Castro, realize the inherent moral indigence and political counterproductive…
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It didn’t take long for the hate and division incited and enabled by Donald Trump’s campaign to rear its ugly head. In the wake of the Republican candidate’s victory, numerous…
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Trump’s ascent are not explained by his mental health, but in the fertile soil in which the seeds of his simplistic, triumphalist ideology were planted. His win can also be attributed…
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Trump still hasn’t shot anyone, but he has done everything short of it. Still, a few days before the election, the political oracles give him a chance of winning. Thus, the essence of…
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With Amendment 1, the people at FPL thought they had a sure-fire formula for rigging the election: play with words to fool voters into thinking they are voting in favor of one thing,…
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Republicans fear that a Trump electoral debacle could hand one or both houses of Congress to the Democrats. Democrats and others outside the Republican establishment are uneasy about…
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Donald Trump had it coming for a long time. Now the day of reckoning has arrived. What I didn’t predict is that of all the cardinal sins of which Trump is guilty of—avarice, wrath,…
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