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The end of the charters?
On Wednesday, JetBlue passenger planes will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Santa Clara in central Cuba, symbolically cutting the ribbon that re-starts the scheduled flights between…
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Zika crisis grows so members of Congress decide to go on vacation
Republicans in Congress are once again playing the extortion game with Obama by refusing to fund the administration’s $1.1 billion request to fight Zika unless a provision aimed at…
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Contact, conversation make a big difference when dealing with Cuba
Cuba is a great place to go: to learn, exchange, make friends, make progress and make bigger plans - so long as you can set the tropes aside, and come with ears to hear.
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Pharma’s business model: Your money or your life
Human life is supposed to be priceless, but U.S. pharmaceutical companies, like the makers of the EpiPen, have a clear sense of how much a life is worth to people who desperately need a…
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Lucre: Marco Rubio’s ultimate political goal
Marco Rubio's business is politics. Over the years it has served him well economically. Like others (he’s not alone), he does not see a problem growing his net worth as he runs for…
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Trump Is self-sabotaging his campaign because he never wanted the job in the first place
Donald Trump never actually wanted to be president of the United States. I know this for a fact, says the author Michael Moore. Now he will not suffer through being officially and…
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Cuba in the U.S. elections
So far, despite the tremendous media impact created by the reestablishment of relations, except for brief references in the platforms approved by each party, and an occasional comment…
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Trompe l’oeil economics*
Trump, being Trump, is proposing an even more radical fiscal counter-revolution than that that has been under way since the Reagan administration. It is a wonderful plan for business…
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An end to capital punishment in the United States?
Capital punishment continues to be practiced in the U.S. decades after it has been abolished in other Western developed countries. It continues to be practiced despite denunciation of…
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Worthy of our contempt
This isn’t a column about Mr. Trump and the people who are O.K. with anything he says or does. It is, instead, about Republicans — probably a minority within the party, but a…
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