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It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change. Yet his embrace of…
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The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday asked the Vatican to help win the release of a Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross who has been in a Cuban jail since 2009.
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What grade does the Obama administration deserve from progressives as it enters the home stretch? Because Progreso Weekly columnist Max Castro believes Obama has failed to be a…
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On December 28, 1.3 million American workers got a late Christmas present from the federal government. Their unemployment benefits were cut off. And their monthly expenses exceed their…
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When compared to comparably trained American college graduates who enter other occupations, teacher salaries are 40 percent lower.
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Vicki Huddleston, a former chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana (1999-2002): "If Raúl Castro’s reforms are successful Cuban Americans will gain the most if the embargo is…
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No one can win the war in Syria. It is clear that the parties think they cannot afford to lose because they fear annihilation and this explains why the war will keep going unless the…
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Listen! That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract. The Columbia Journalism Review adds: “The line between democracy and a darker social order is thinner than you…
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Republican policies that seek to deny health care to millions of Americans as reflected in their obsessive attempts to destroy Obamacare demonstrate cruelty and callousness.
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