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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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The Obama administration on Thursday fought to keep secret a CIA account of the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, says this report issued by McClatchyDC and written by Michael Doyle.
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Long a political land mine, normalizing U.S. relations with Cuba may be developing momentum, says Tom Hayden in an opinion piece written for the Los Angeles Times. Part of the reason…
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The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America and how capitalism has lost sight of its social compact.
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Excerpts from press "gaggle" aboard U.S. One, as Obama returned from South Africa on Tuesday. Meeting with reporters was Ben Rhodes.
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The Obama White House is filled with book smart people. It's the street smart ones that are in short supply. And that was nowhere more obvious or painful than in the disastrous launch…
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