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The Washington Post is reporting that “President Obama will announce Thursday that he will use his executive authority to expand temporary protections to millions of undocumented…
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It seems that, after all, Obama may have found the courage to do what he should have done a long time ago: bring relief to the legal situation of millions of undocumented immigrants.
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It should be easier to make a deal. A 65-year-old American USAID subcontractor named Alan Gross is serving 15 years in a Cuban prison for smuggling sophisticated telecommunications…
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If the U.S. intelligence agencies — in this case, the CIA — want other countries to cooperate with data that will help to disband criminal gangs, the first thing they must do is to…
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There is much to criticize about Washington’s failed policies toward Cuba and the embargo it has imposed on the island for decades. But the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program,…
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The US government’s secret airborne dragnet is just the latest tool to snoop on your phone. Why aren’t we stopping this?
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Thousands of acres across the country were partially developed during the housing boom. What should happen to them now?
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It’s easy to strike a pose of cynicism when contemplating Hillary Clinton’s inevitable presidential campaign. As a drearily soulless, principle-free, power-hungry veteran of DC’s game…
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren plans to oppose President Barack Obama’s nomination of Antonio Weiss, a Wall Street investment banker, to be Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance.
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When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received this letter, nearly 50 years ago, he quietly informed friends that someone wanted him to kill himself — and he thought he knew who that…
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