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My life as a retail worker: Nasty, brutish, and poor
After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store. In a personal essay, he recalls his struggles with challenges millions of Americans…
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‘Propagandist Fox News more dangerous than ISIS’
Comedian Russell Brand condemned Fox News as a “fanatical terrorist propaganda organization” during a 10-minute tirade on video this week. “Don’t think of a bomb as going down there and…
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World Cup soccer in Miami: Immigrants’ delight
It is us, the immigrants, who have imported to Miami the ambience of the World Cup. Like that bar full of Brazilians, most of them drunk before the game even started, who placed their…
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Cruel but not unusual punishment
The death of Darren Rainey, a mentally ill inmate at Dade Correctional Institution, who was locked in a shower-like “decontamination facility” by guards who then turned on the water…
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Asking for votes, but no longer in the nude
Why is one person's morality less important than someone else's? asks former porno actor David Mech, who's looking for a seat in the Palm Beach School Board. This and much more in this…
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A single currency is not a cure-all
The first phase of the changeover in Cuba's currency unit -- from convertible peso to national peso -- began this month in a Santiago de Cuba store. But monetary unification "will not,…
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Playing for change: Guantanamera
This past week a version of Guantanamera was released where Cuban musicians, led by Carlos Varela and Manuel Galban, and under the direction of Jackson Browne and Mark Johnson, reminded…
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Pot Lady
"You were talking about mari-juana," said a disgruntled lady to a couple of morning radio talk hosts in Miami. The announcers were not advocating its use, much less selling it. They…
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The path is clear; we don’t seem to want to take it
The latest Cuba poll had no major surprises. A not so close analysis shows a path to victory for those who’d like to see a change in U.S.-Cuba policy. One we've known about for some…
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Progress as a political program
Socialism changed humanity as far as humanity could be changed, confronted capitalism and in many aspects forced it to change its course. Today's adversary is not someone who thinks…
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