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An irreplaceable activist has left us. Michael Ratner died Wednesday at the age of 72. The Nation magazine described him perfectly: “He pursued justice fearlessly, in the face of…
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Political correspondent James Hohmann has some very perceptive words about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The Democrat's success at the polls, he says, "is really not about…
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Voters in the U.S. presidential election this fall will choose between Republican and Democratic Party nominees who agree on at least one issue: Both will favor ending the U.S. embargo…
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Republicans are running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to figure out how to react to Donald Trump’s stunning takeover of their Grand Old Party.
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The author transcribes a set of headlines from the current press and lets the reader make her/his own connections and conclusions. On the personal order he concludes that the spirit of…
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Today, as the suicide trends show, the injuries of class are hardly hidden. They are open sores, belying all pretensions to an American Dream or to a Great Society.
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On Friday, April 22, the U.S. Department of State issued a new list of eligible imports produced by independent Cuban entrepreneurs.
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Mariana Gaston is a retired New York city teacher and a relentless activist for better public schools. For decades she has advocated and worked to change U.S. policy towards Cuba. She…
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Far from being politics as usual, Marco Rubio's defeat last week at the hands of a Senate disinterested in voting on his amendment is emblematic of a sea-change as the country…
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That sorry bunch, the Cuban Mafia or the Cuban Con Artists, call them what you will, were left out of the conversation because their intention was to prevent any conversation, or even…
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