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Medicare turns 50
Medicare turns 50. It was signed into law July 30, 1965 – the crowning achievement of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. It’s more popular than ever. Yet it continues to be blamed for…
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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad country
When speaking of violence it's not just the crazy carnage inflicted weekly through the barrels of the ever-proliferating and increasingly deadly stock of guns in these United States,…
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Flag poles to public opinion polls
Are we progressing and winning in the court of U.S. public opinion in ways that are really catching our attention. Monday's flag raising at the Cuban embassy may be a sign of things to…
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Support for re-establishing Cuba ties continues to grow
As the United States and Cuba moved this week to end more than 50 years of diplomatic conflict, public support for re-establishing relations with Cuba has increased.
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U.S. and Cuba banks agree to relationship
News sources are reporting that Stonegate Bank signed a correspondent banking relationship with Banco Internacional de Comercio S.A. in Cuba.
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Why progressives must stay united
Our only hope for genuine change is if poor, working class, middle class, black, Latino, and white come together in a powerful movement to take back our economy and democracy from the…
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Embassies reopen after half a century (+ Photos)
Before Dec. 17, 2014, not even the most optimistic observers could predict that the national flags would fly at both countries' embassies so soon.
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Regime change or not?
Since the President’s Cuba announcement, observers have been trying to fathom whether the intent is only to change the strategy of our policy, while retaining the long standing goal of…
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Cuban flag will be raised Monday at State Department
Attention in Washington will be focused on Cuba on Monday when the Cuban Interests Section building becomes the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba and that nation's flag is placed in one…
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Another powerful group to lobby for U.S.-Cuba normalization
The Howard Baker Forum is launching The Cuba Consortium, a member-based group of organizations and individuals interested in U.S.-Cuba normalization.
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