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One year after reopening embassies, U.S.-Cuba relations progress
In the last year, normalization has meant that thousands of Americans have met and learned from Cubans through people-to-people travel, while U.S. corporations continue to prove that…
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The Rogovins and their family photos
Paula Rogovin still remembers that episode of her childhood in Buffalo, N.Y., when she interrupted the lesson at school by raising her hand and saying, "I think that Cuba is nice."…
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Republican Party platform on Cuba returns to the Cold War days
Last week in Cleveland, State Senator Eric Brakey of Maine tried to make some changes to the Republican Party's foreign policy platform. It turns out that when it comes to Cuba, though,…
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The crowning of Trump: The GOP’s politics of resentment out of the closet
Ever since the 1960s, the Republican Party has been an ever-stronger magnet for white resentment. Donald Trump is the culmination of this Frankenstein-like union of prejudice and…
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Red, black and green: From Marcus Garvey to Micah Johnson
In the seconds before his death, Micah Johnson wrote the letter R and then the letter B in his own blood on the wall. It took investigators a bit of time to suss that out, but it seems…
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Poll: Clinton loses lead over Trump in Florida; too close in Ohio and Pennsylvania
Democrat Hillary Clinton has lost an 8-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in Florida, and finds herself in too-close-to-call races in the three critical swing states of Florida,…
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Black lives, blue lives
The horror wrought by a deranged gunman last week in Dallas, as cruel and callous as it was, should not obscure the larger realities of policing in America, especially but not only when…
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DOT fact sheet for U.S.-Cuba service to Havana
Under the new arrangement, each country has the opportunity to operate up to 20 daily roundtrip flights between the U.S. and Havana. The tentatively selected airlines, routes, and…
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Mayors conference adopts resolution on ending embargo
The U.S. Conference of Mayors has adopted a resolution calling on Congress to end the embargo against Cuba, citing their leaders' recent trip to Cuba.
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How negotiations stand between Cuba and the U.S.
Looking to the future, it will be very difficult for anyone who is elected President of the U.S. to ignore the advances in relations with Cuba, the concrete benefits that the improved…
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