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Normalizing relations with Cuba: Has the U.S. learned its lesson
On August 14, the U.S. government once again will have formal diplomatic relations with Cuba. Yet, most of the economic and commercial restrictions imposed since the 1960s need to be…
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Bring out the clowns: The Republican debate
Talk about a party with no consensus on who should lead it. And that a candidate of Trump's ilk could be leading the race in one of the nation's two leading political parties speaks…
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Want to improve the health of millions of Americans? Lift the embargo on Cuba
President Barack Obama's White House has taken initial steps to put an end to a policy that has adversely affected the health of the American people for over half a century.
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Respect and the wisdom of letting change happen
Changing a policy that was written in Washington to determine Cuba's future was not doomed to failure simply because the Cuban revolution resisted it. It failed because it wasn't right.
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The Puerto Rico debt crisis and American colonialism
Puerto Rico, one of a handful of western colonies remaining in the world and the United States’ largest colony, suffers from its current fiscal crisis because of its 117 year-old,…
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Always right: Reading The Wall Street Journal
It's only been a few days of reading The Wall Street Journal, but I have already received quite an education about the mindset of right-wing America.
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Growing momentum to repeal Cuban embargo
A significant majority of Americans and an overwhelming majority of Cubans want the embargo repealed. Congress should now make engagement the cornerstone of American policy toward Cuba.
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A shift in course: Bipartisan calls to end the embargo
On Friday before an audience gathered at Florida International University in Miami, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "The Cuba embargo needs to go, once and for all..."
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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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