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The total surveillance state that developed in the U.S. after 9/11 under George W. Bush and that has continued with as much or more energy under Barack Obama has, among other things,…
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Lately things at the Herald seem to be getting worse. A decade ago, most of the worst offenses were limited to the pages of El Nuevo Herald. Nowadays the language divide is not longer a…
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Money rules. It makes the rules. That's not exactly news. What is novel globally and, most especially, in the United States, is the intensity, pervasiveness, brazenness, and deep…
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President Obama wants to give the lowest paid workers in the country a raise. He intends to do that by significantly raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 an hour.
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Today, Americans wouldn’t bet a nickel on their life chances. Evidence for this assertion comes from a new McClatchy-Marist survey. The results of the poll were reported in a…
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When someone told me at the end of last month that the Republicans were going to unveil an immigration reform bill that would include a path to citizenship, my instant reaction was:…
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Uri Dromi is puzzled. Dromi, an Israeli whose invariably pro-Israel columns are a regular feature of the Miami Herald seems puzzled. He is dismayed by the evidence of the low regard in…
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Texas has done it again. The Lone Star state has executed another Mexican national in defiance of of a ruling by the World Court, thumbing its nose at binding U.S. international treaty…
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Recently, the war on worker's rights and living standards has escalated significantly. And Miami-Dade County is now one of the nation's hot spots in this ongoing conflict.
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According to the Republican Senator from Florida, the war on poverty has failed and it is high time we adopt a new and more effective Republican approach to the problem.
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