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What the mainstream media won’t let Bernie Sanders talk about
The reason the media doesn’t cover these issues is because “it’s not in the interest of the corporations who own the networks to actually be educating the American people so that they…
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5 reasons why Jeb Bush won’t make it through the GOP nomination
When you stop and take a closer look at Jeb Bush, you find that there are many reasons to scrutinize his potential presidential run.
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On Cuba embargo, it’s the U.S. and Israel against the world – again.
It’s ironic that a policy designed to isolate Cuba has wound up isolating the United States in profound ways. If anything it boosts Cuban diplomatic standing.
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The American Dream is leaving America
We provide superb education for elites, but we falter at mass education.
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Angry Mexicans protest in NYC over disappearance of 43 students
As Elena Poniatowska said in Mexico City last Sunday, before thousands of moved and indignant Mexicans: "We must raise our protest to the skies."
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Child poverty up in more than half of developed world since 2008
Unicef report finds number of children entering poverty during global recession is 2.6 million greater than number lifted out of it.
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Don’t let them silence you: Vote, dammit!
Our country’s oldest and longest struggle has been to enlarge democracy by making it possible for more and more people to be treated equally at the polls. The right to participate in…
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For U.S. and Cuba, the space between
Within this context, the U.S.’s elected officials seem to be the party generating a narrative that doesn’t match the evidence provided by the American public: widespread skepticism of…
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Americans are taking the least vacation time in 40 years
Americans forfeit more vacation days according to how much they make, according to an analysis by the US Travel Association.
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The shifting politics of Cuba policy
Politics aside, the issue remains deeply personal for the holdouts, Cuban-Americans of that generation say, because it continues to evoke raw feelings about ancestry, homeland and loss.…
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