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How to spot income inequality from space? Count the trees
It got De Chant thinking about whether it would be possible to actually see income inequality from space. So he did some googling. And he found that not only was it very easy to spot in…
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Cuba, polls and the real ‘useful idiots’
Wow, eight polls in ten weeks -- that's not just a trend, it's a tidal wave. So, where does that leave the hardliners now? Frustrated, we'd guess. Rather than attacking public opinion,…
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Yoan Moncada heads to Boston from Cuba, encouraged by a man who knows both
The governments of Cuba and the United States have initiated a process that could lead to a normalization of relations. If that is achieved, it may not be as difficult for the current…
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First direct flight from New Orleans To Cuba since 1958 to take off this weekend
A series of concrete changes in recent months show that the two countries are slowly becoming more friendly toward one another.
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U.S. sanctions on Venezuela not really about human rights
President Obama also, reportedly with a straight face, officially declared that Venezuela poses “an extraordinary threat to the national security” of the U.S.
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Reuters New poll shows bipartisan support for Obama’s Cuba policy
A new national poll shows a bipartisan majority of American voters support the Obama administration's new Cuba policy and would like to see an end to the 50-year-old economic embargo…
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Water shortages are coming. It’s time for us to act
Ensuring that our children have access to the same abundance of water that we have enjoyed is our responsibility.
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Cuba-U.S.: A healthy relationship
Cooperation in matters of health and medical research can be one of the most solid roads to rapprochement between two countries that are still very distant. For more than 20 years, a…
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Cuba trade diplomat urges normalized trade relations
José Ramón Cabañas, the chief of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, said restrictive U.S. policies on export financing terms are one major impediment to Virginia businesses…
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Black lives matter, but not to all
Scathing. That's the word used by most of the media to characterize the report issued last week by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on race and policing in Ferguson, Missouri.
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