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Normalizing relations puts us on the right side of history
Last week, StandUP! with Pete Dominick on Sirius XM Radio hosted “Cuba Week,” which brought together journalists, scholars, activists, and policy experts for a series of discussions on…
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White House awakes to ‘national crisis’
Baltimore riots show the limits of President Obama's hands-off approach.
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Musical envoy heads for Cuba
Afro-Cuban music and American Jazz continue to be closely related. They have influenced each other through the Miami-Havana route, despite the 50-year embargo.
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Cuba’s lung cancer vaccine is heading to the U.S. for clinical trials
While the vaccine is a long way from hitting the American market, doctors at Roswell Park hope to get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to begin clinical trials within eight…
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“The Cuban table”: A savory trip through Cuba, Miami and NY
For Ana Sofía Peláez, author of The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History (St. Martin's Press), writing a cookbook was the ultimate collaborative project.
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Ros-Lehtinen’s new reality
Here’s a story about Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's sudden about-face on President Obama's decision to drop Cuba from the state sponsors of terror list.
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I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children
I work 70 hours a week doing two jobs but cannot make ends meet. Presidential hopefuls must make profitable federal contractors pay living wages.
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Cuba moves closer to exit U.S. terror list
“They had been planning to present a piece of legislation in the allotted 45 days to overturn the removal of Cuba from the list, but couldn’t get a majority. Rather than risk looking…
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Republicans want to limit Medicaid, kill Obamacare… and hurt people like me
Up to 8 million people could lose their insurance if the US supreme court rules to limit subsidies to states with their own exchanges.
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Farm-state senators introduce bill to ease ag sales to Cuba
Two senators announced legislation designed to boost the sales of U.S. agricultural products to Cuba, seeking to tap a market that has seen shipments from the U.S. dwindle in recent…
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