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Why we must raise taxes on corporations and wealthy. Not lower them.
Even if Republicans eliminated everything else in the federal budget – from education to Meals on Wheels – they wouldn’t have nearly enough to pay for tax cuts of the magnitude…
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The decadence of Trump’s speech and its dangers
The United Nations is no longer the place where to listen to great statesmen. The pattern of world politics is the lack of soaring ideas and the lack of valor in expressing them. But…
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‘Eargate’ feels like a U.S. operation to undo Obama’s Cuba opening
Since the beginning it has been a strange case. A “Who done it?” of international intrigue. Logic, history and common scientific sense tell us that the culprits are Americans working to…
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The DREAMers, Trump’s blackmail card
Last Wednesday (Sept. 13), Donald Trump met with Democratic leaders of Congress to reach a legislative accord that might protect the DREAMers, undocumented youths who came to the United…
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Cruel cones of uncertainty
In the midst of Irma and its cone of uncertainty, the Trump administration decided to create its very own cone of uncertainty by removing protection from deportation for nearly one…
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Hurricane Irma: the path of destruction
Hurricane Irma, the strongest storm ever recorded over the Atlantic, has devastated the Caribbean and battered Florida. Here's how this historic storm unfolded.
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The constitution was a victim of September 11 too
Our government used the tragedy of 9/11 to whittle away at many of the ideals that Americans have fought and died for, without so much as a whimper from most of us. From secret prisons,…
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It’s now time for Medicare for all
Senator Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Jeff Merkley, are introducing a Medicare For All bill in the Senate. It’s a model for where this nation needs to be headed. A…
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Cuba and our good name
What exactly is Trump's Cuba policy today? Are his administration's incremental reversals of previous U.S.-Cuba policy all we shall see, or will there be more, and more substantial,…
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Defiant Bob Menendez has tough first day in court
With his son and daughter on each of his sides a defiant Bob Menendez stood before reporters outside the Newark, NJ, courthouse where he will be tried, along with wealthy south Florida…
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