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The administration announced last Friday that it would double the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, to 3,100; request an additional $5.6 billion for the war; and put U.S. trainers closer…
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Let’s turn Election Day into a holiday. It’s one giant leap for a political system that the world can look upon as an example, not a failure.
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United States political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a lawsuit on the grounds that a new Pennsylvania law is aimed at silencing prisoners.
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Washington should recognize that the most it can hope to accomplish is to positively influence Cuba’s evolution toward a more open society. That is more likely to come about through…
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The tax revenues from marijuana in states where it has been legalised are relatively sizeable - is this one of the reasons why many places are consenting to pro-marijuana legislation?
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HAVANA -- In the days prior to the midterm elections, a media campaign was launched, urging President Obama to change U.S. policy toward Cuba. It is obvious that the promoters of…
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Normalizing relations between the two nations will require a series of presidential actions. Here is a roadmap for how that could happen...whenever.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - It took Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo just three words to dismiss the New York Times editorial on Alan Gross. It urged President Obama to swap three convicted Cuban spies…
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President Obama said on Wednesday that he would act on his own by the end of the year to “improve” the immigration system. Now the election is over, and the only thing to say to the…
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While immigration was generally a muted issue in midterm elections dominated by the GOP, Obama promised the next day to move ahead on his own to remove the threat of deportation or…
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