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Google searches show that millions of people wanted to vote but couldn’t
Much of the recent attention has gone to court battles over voter ID laws. But other barriers to voting remain. Although some states allow voters to register right up to Election Day,…
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Cuba specialists optimistic U.S. trade embargo will end
Phil Peters, president of Cuba Research Center, a nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Virginia, says the U.S. and Cuba have been making progress in normalizing their diplomatic and…
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Revising the national legend, or, the U.S. people don’t know
Filmmaker Louis Alvarez says that social classes in the United States can be harder to identify than the various races or ethnic backgrounds but that, in many ways, that's exactly what…
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Hot issues: Human rights and telecoms
Representatives from Cuba and the United States will meet in Washington next Tuesday (March 31) to discuss the human rights situation in both countries, a Foreign Ministry official said…
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Exclusive: Julian Assange on “When Google Met WikiLeaks” While He was Under House Arrest
The importance of the interview (by Amy Goodman) lies in the exchange of questions and answers that led to Julian Assange to publish a book whose focus is the Google president.
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Rangel: Reinstate the draft
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is re-introducing legislation that would reinstate a military draft in the U.S. and impose a “war tax” so that Americans “feel the burden” of ongoing…
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The outsider
Elizabeth Warren wants to be the most powerful Democrat in America—without running for president.
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Michele Rosewoman’s music celebrates Cuba
New Yor-Uba brings Latin sound to Egg.
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The mysteries of Obama’s policy toward Venezuela
It is difficult for any Latin American and Caribbean country to accept the meddlesome terms of the U.S. statement against Venezuela. Not even much of the Venezuelan right has been able…
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We speak African: Arturo O’Farrill on U.S./Cuba exchange
Why diplomatic relations will change everything.
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