USA

How do protest activists elected to public office avoid being drawn into politics as usual? The dilemma faced by Chilean leftists may be recognizable to some in U.S. social movements,…
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2/3 of all Americans believe that they can't trust most other persons, a new survey says. The poll showed a record number of Americans who distrust those who surround them, in everyday…
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Four years ago was the beginning of a nightmare that continues with no end in sight. Alan Gross was arrested by Cuban authorities on Dec. 3, 2009, for his work on a U.S. government…
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As Cuban officials see it, Alan Gross is living proof of the U.S. government’s persistent regime-change campaign. Gross was a soldier, albeit of a different sort. He carried a Samsonite…
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How do you mix poetry with technology? President Obama inaugural poet Richard Blanco made it happen by emphasizing that “love is our wisest formula … our most noble science, most…
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For 47 million Americans who receive government food stamps, November may turn out to be that cruelest of months. Recipients have been getting substantially less than they have in the…
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One of the more under-appreciated aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is that by the end of his career, he had fashioned himself into a crusader against poverty, not just…
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Tom Hayden writes that all signs point towards normalization with Cuba by the end of President Barack Obama's second term.
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Coast to coast, the dust has settled from last Tuesday's elections, and one thing is clear. Democrats won some, Republicans won some. There were winners and losers on both sides.
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When she learned from Der Spiegel that the NSA had been tapping her cellphone, Merkel was so outraged she immediately called President Obama and told him to knock it off.
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