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Cuba’s economy in 2017
Although the economy dealt with several shocks throughout the year, the response -- from the standpoint of economic policy -- was insufficient. We might even say that the economic…
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One hundred days of solitude, one hundred years of colonialism
More than three months ago Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, laying waste to the island. The response of the Trump administration has been deplorable. The federal government…
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2017: The year of the living dead
This was the year that all the old, discredited, long-buried political ideas, practices and groups sprang back to life and took center stage. The real zombies are running the show and…
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New tax law supercharges existing inequality trends
The 2018 World Inequality Report shows in rich and convincing detail why the new Trump-Republican tax law makes a bad situation worse. It will increase economic inequality significantly…
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Profiles in cowardice: The Republican congress
Today’s Republican Party not only lacks a conscience regarding the human consequences of the kind of brutal social and economic injustice they champion. They also lack the courage to…
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The doctors who don’t return to practice in Cuba
For talented people to look for better living and working conditions is nothing new or exclusive of Cubans. What's alarming in the case of Cuba is what has happened in recent years. The…
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Savage state
The state of Florida has been quietly carrying out a policy of deliberate medical neglect toward imprisoned felons infected with hepatitis C. That policy, in its inhumanity and lack of…
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With the sea all around us, where’s the fish?
Statistics from 2014 indicate that fishermen working for private commercial entities number almost six times those who are directly involved with the State-run sector. Even so, they…
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A tax bill from hell
There are so many things wrong with the GOP’s tax proposal that the Republicans should be ashamed to offer such a monstrosity. It is a bill that both the House and Senate versions…
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Hucksters in paradise
Florida real estate used to be sold by men and women who’d offer northerners a piece of paradise by the beach that turned out to be swampland in the Everglades, where if you survived…
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