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For days last week, it seemed Miami Beach was returning to its natural, primeval, pre-drainage state:  swampland. But climate change is still being denied by too many and scientific…
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. There was very good news and very  bad news in the United States the last few days.
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It's a delicious dream, says the writer when referencing the present day happenings in the U.S.-Cuba relationship. At the same time he cites the German word 'Schadenfreude' when…
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A specter is haunting the United States: a Republican presidency that would eradicate the modest progress on social justice achieved under Obama in such areas as health care, and…
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Politicians, advertisers, con men--among others--often employ such lies, but Florida's Republicans have done them all one better by committing all three at the same time and turning…
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Think of condo canyons and massive high-rises that block the view of the water. Even those who thought they had bought a view of the ocean watch to their dismay when an even more…
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Meet the real Barack Obama. Race is hardly the only issue on which Obama has challenged the right, and probably not the most important one either.
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The raising of the American flag with the Malecon in the background, the playing of the national anthems of each country, were symbolic highlights. But what made the occasion truly…
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Talk about a party with no consensus on who should lead it. And that a candidate of Trump's ilk could be leading the race in one of the nation's two leading political parties speaks…
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It's only been a few days of reading The Wall Street Journal, but I have already received quite an education about the mindset of right-wing America.
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