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An American diplomat who was expelled from Bolivia for reportedly meddling in the host country's domestic politics will leave Washington for Havana and become the United States' new…
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If you are the U.S. State Department in the age of Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to ramp up the scare meter on Cuba travelers, you continue to hype the secretive…
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The president who has done more than any other to polarize this already divided nation delivered his first State of the Union speech last week. The partisan chasm, one of many rifts in…
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Alan Gross, the elderly American who tried to smuggle electronic equipment into Cuba to start an unauthorized Internet system, reacted to the U.S. plan to convene a Cuba Internet Task…
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Trump has intentionally cleaved America into two warring camps: pro-Trump and anti-Trump. The Republican Party used to stand for fiscal responsibility, state’s rights, free trade, and a…
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Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit they’ve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security,…
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First, throw out of the country as many black, brown, Muslim, and Spanish-speaking people as possible. Then, prevent others from coming in, with walls and blanket bans barring all…
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Puerto Rico lacks the right to declare bankruptcy for a fair process to restructure its debt. Instead, an undemocratic Control Board stocked with conservative ideologues was created by…
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According to new figures released by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, U.S. agriculture is benefitting from trade with Cuba. Exports of food and agricultural products from the…
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It is fitting that the U.S. government shut down a year to the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump. The Trump administration and its Republican accomplices in Congress have been…
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