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Obama: The last lap
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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A late Christmas present
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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Recruiting excellent teachers requires more than mere idealism
When compared to comparably trained American college graduates who enter other occupations, teacher salaries are 40 percent lower.
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Obama-Castro handshake: What does it mean?
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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A war that can’t be won
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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The great American class war: Plutocracy versus Democracy
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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Republicans suffering from affluenza
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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Lawsuit seeks to unlock CIA’s secret history of Bay of Pigs invasion
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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Is it time for the U.S. to shake Cuba’s hand too?
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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‘There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show’
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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