Opinion

There is a particular kind of leader who thrives in moments of tension: loud, theatrical, certain of his own righteousness. He speaks in threats, reduces complex realities into slogans,…
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When South Florida members of Congress Mario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Giménez, and María Elvira Salazar voted for a balanced-budget constitutional amendment, they aligned with a familiar…
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The presidency has always been more than a political office. At its best, it is a moral stage—one where words carry weight, signal values, and help define the character of a nation.…
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The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel popularized the concept of the “spirit of the age” to define the set of ideas and values that characterize a given historical…
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Álvaro Fernández recently reminded us in Progreso Weekly that once upon a time, among Cuban exiles, the word dialogue turned into something worse than an ordinary pejorative. Beginning…
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Centrist Democrats argue that the party should not “go so far left in a primary that they can’t win against MAGA in the general.” As the Center for Working Class Politics observes,…
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Recently, a series of front-page stories in the Miami Herald by Nora Gámez Torres — the paper’s Cuba and U.S.–Latin America policy reporter — have depicted a dramatic scene of secret…
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Almost a month after Trump’s Executive Order 14380, which imposed an oil blockade on Cuba, the situation can be summarized as a maze of mixed signals, with no immediate solution or…
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By any honest reading of history, nostalgia has often been the most dangerous political force in the United States. During and after the Civil War, competing visions of the nation…
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We’ve seen this movie before. Planes violate Cuban airspace, dropping leaflets over Havana. Speedboats approach the coast loaded with men, arms, and ammunition — like the recent…
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