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U.S. sanctions cruelly choke ordinary Cubans
María Elena keeps a handwritten list taped inside her kitchen cabinet in Centro Habana. It’s her family’s “medicine map” — the cousins in Tampa who might send blood-pressure pills, the…
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The Supreme Court stands on its head
In Trump v. United States (2024), decided 6–3 on July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that a former president enjoys (1) absolute immunity for actions within his “conclusive and…
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Cuban homes and hurricanes
By the time Hurricane Melissa left Santiago de Cuba Bay, almost no houses on Cayo Granma had roofs, and dozens had been completely destroyed.
Many residents spent that night sheltering…
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The Alejandro Gil case: The fall of Cuba’s finance czar
When Alejandro Gil Fernández — once Cuba’s public face of economic reform, a deputy prime minister, and the architect of a significant 2021 monetary overhaul — disappeared from the…
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Heroes without headlines: How corporate media misses the immigrant story
They arrive quietly, often unseen by the cameras that prefer the spectacle of the border or the flash of a crime scene. Yet the pulse of immigrant America beats in laboratories,…
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How Cheney’s destructive war on terror became Trump’s authoritarian war on truth
When Richard Cheney died, it marked more than the end of a political life. It marked the closing of an American chapter, one that began in the smoke of the Twin Towers and stretches to…
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The prophet of pawprints and the king of debt: An Argentine-American love story
When Donald Trump returned to the White House—declaring himself both President and Chief Brand Officer of Western Civilization—he promised to restore “real leadership” to the Americas.…
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The oldest colony, the newest war: Puerto Rico as launchpad for war on Venezuela
When President Donald Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as US drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few…
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The U.S. footprint of interventions
When historians count U.S. interventions abroad, the first difficulty is deciding what qualifies. Should it be only large-scale invasions and occupations? Or every instance of Marines…
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Concerns grow in Washington about Trump’s (illegal?) Venezuela operations
WASHINGTON — Growing concern is spreading throughout Capitol Hill over the opaque nature of recent U.S. lethal strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug-smuggling vessels, and new…
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