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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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It's too early to write the history of the Obama administration. But, at this point, it looks like, for the most part, that history may be summed up in three words: coulda, woulda,…
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A storm that was only a Category 2 when it hit the northeast virtually paralyzed the Big Apple last year. What would have happened if a Category 5 had hit? Picture Manhattan as a lake.…
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Revelations made by The Washington Post give additional credibility to Cuba's complaint that Havana, in good faith, gave Washington information about right-wing terrorist groups in…
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