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Neither party gets good marks from its base for handling illegal immigration
Republicans unhappy with GOP’s approach to several major issues
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Hypocrisy and the right to travel to Cuba
Today, it is easier for a Cuban citizen living under a communist government to travel to the United States than for an American citizen who lives in democracy to travel freely to Cuba.…
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U.S. baseball folly: Stealing Cubans at home
No one in sports is immune to this logic, but in no other sport is mercantilism as raw as it is in U.S. baseball...
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Hundreds of thousands turn out for people’s climate march in New York City
The rally comes at an opportune time as 120 world leaders, including President Barack Obama, are expected to convene Tuesday at the United Nations in New York to discuss ways to tackle…
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The hidden history of dialogue with Cuba: What Obama needs to know about talking to Havana
On October 6, the Latin America Initiative (LAI) in Foreign Policy at Brookings will host William M. LeoGrande, professor of government at American University, and Peter Kornbluh,…
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Case of American jailed in Cuba back in US court
A government subcontractor who has spent over four years imprisoned in Cuba should be allowed to sue the U.S. government over lost wages and legal fees, his attorney told an appeals…
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Assange: Google almost identical to NSA
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange compares Google to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) as well as the British spy agency, GCHQ.
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The irony and non-logic of Rubio and Ros-Lehtinen
This week, two staunch defenders of the U.S. embargo against Cuba came out against isolationism and in favor of expanding global trade.
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Noam Chomsky: Why Americans know so much about sports but so little about world affairs
The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway to influence the real world.
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The U.S. State Department responds to my four-year-old FoIA request… sort of
The envelope contained 10 pages, three of them the cover letter and boilerplate on Appeals Procedures, on the off chance I wanted to wait another four years for a further answer.
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