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Free expression a two-way street
A reward-or-punishment technique works only when we train babies who don't know the difference between good and evil. To do that with entire nations like some have tried with Cuba is an…
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The great American class war: Plutocracy versus Democracy
Listen! That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract. The Columbia Journalism Review adds: “The line between democracy and a darker social order is thinner than you…
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Marco Rubio
One of Obamacare's biggest critics is now officially covered under the federal health care exchange: Sen. Marco Rubio, who also accepted the federal subsidy afforded to lawmakers.
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Republicans suffering from affluenza
Republican policies that seek to deny health care to millions of Americans as reflected in their obsessive attempts to destroy Obamacare demonstrate cruelty and callousness.
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Florida Puerto Ricans have stake in immigration debate
U.S. companies hire from the island because Puerto Ricans speak Spanish and can work legally in the U.S. If immigration reform passes, low-wage Puerto Rican workers could lose that…
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Lawsuit seeks to unlock CIA’s secret history of Bay of Pigs invasion
The Obama administration on Thursday fought to keep secret a CIA account of the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, says this report issued by McClatchyDC and written by Michael Doyle.
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Is it time for the U.S. to shake Cuba’s hand too?
Long a political land mine, normalizing U.S. relations with Cuba may be developing momentum, says Tom Hayden in an opinion piece written for the Los Angeles Times. Part of the reason…
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The ‘magnet schools’
Magnet schools have helped some children to not limit their education to the immediate surroundings of their neighborhood. The results were very different from those expected.
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Entrepreneurship calls for revision of laws, attorney says
Cuba's criminal laws will have to be updated along with the economy to deal with "new risks associated with these transformations," Cuba's news agency reports.
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Diplomat foresees an end to the embargo
The newspaper Granma published an interview with Ramón Sánchez-Parodi Montoto, former director of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington (1977-1989), vice minister of Foreign…
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