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What are the institutions—public and civic—that could roll back this fast-approaching U.S.-style fascism with the snarling visage of serial criminal and constitutional violator, Donald…
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Flat-earthers swim in a sea of anomie -- a social phenomenon, transmitted and amplified through communication, more rapidly and thoroughly than ever in this age of social media.
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The premise is wrong: The United States is not today and has never been a democracy. You cannot lose what you never had.
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A metaphorical anticipation of Cuba's reality: Catching a slice of pork for Christmas dinner will be more difficult than for the blind samurai Zatoichi to stab a fly with his katana.
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The appearance of the new Covid strain has shaken Cubans like a bucket of cold water poured into the best of dreams.
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There's a chance to fix things. Yet Republican leadership's lust for power, above all, lacks any decent ideas, practical programs, or the skills or inclination to govern.
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Pandemonium -- an ideological choice -- is a feature of the ruling ultra-capitalist paradigm we live under and not a bug in the program.
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One can only conclude that much of the public and the media are unfairly setting the bar at a very different height for Biden than they did for Trump.
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These elections should put the Biden administration on notice that continuing to support the MUD, and in particular, the fiction of Guaidó as "interim president," is a failed policy.
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None of this is to suggest Cubans are suddenly universally satisfied with their government or with the pace of change. But Cuba’s November “normal” appealed more than Yunior Garcia’s…
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