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Trump still hasn’t shot anyone, but he has done everything short of it. Still, a few days before the election, the political oracles give him a chance of winning. Thus, the essence of…
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We are at an unprecedented moment in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., a time when it's important to appreciate the triumph of a "culture of resistance" that now has to find…
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The U.S. has for the first time abstained from voting against an annual UN resolution calling for an end to its economic embargo against Cuba. The final tally was 191-0, with the U.S.…
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Although the new directives state that there is no intention to promote a "regime change" in Cuba, it sets out the objectives that the U.S. pursues in the current relationship, taking…
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Republicans fear that a Trump electoral debacle could hand one or both houses of Congress to the Democrats. Democrats and others outside the Republican establishment are uneasy about…
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Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died in Santa…
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The list of increasingly visible, vested interests wanting to put an end to the embargo is growing in profoundly important and practical ways. Leading the way is the medical field where…
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The White House on Friday issued something called a Presidential Policy Directive devoted to "United States-Cuba Normalization." At its core, the directive breaks, clearly and…
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Amendments expand venues for scientific collaboration, facilitate increased humanitarian support, and bolster trade and commercial opportunities between the U.S. and Cuba. The new…
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Donald Trump had it coming for a long time. Now the day of reckoning has arrived. What I didn’t predict is that of all the cardinal sins of which Trump is guilty of—avarice, wrath,…
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