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By Juliette Kayyem From The Boston Globe BOSTON - Since the attacks on the Boston Marathon, and the investigation of the Tsarnaev brothers, there has been much discussion…
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By Bill Press It was inspiring to see them side by side at Southern Methodist University in Dallas: Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and…
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By Isabel Kaplan From The Huffington Post Every year, by April 30, the secretary of state presents to Congress the annual Country Reports on Terrorism. A central component of this…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada That also explains the almost hysterical tone against this reform, as well as, on a more general level, the raging fear that so…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - Two lethal explosions took place on the same day last week. You would have to live on another planet to have missed the horror that happened at the end of…
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By Yadira Escobar MIAMI – U.S. senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte apparently wish to deprive the suspect in the Boston attack, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, of his civil…
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By William Saletan From Slate Mandatory background checks are a terrible idea. They burden law-abiding citizens and don’t catch criminals. The databases they rely on are riddled…
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U.S. seeks to get rid of left governments in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot From Brazil’s Fohla de Sao Paulo Recent events indicate that the Obama administration has stepped up…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson P Valdés In their 54-year-old effort to bring down Cuba’s revolutionary government and restore obedience in our Caribbean neighbor, U.S. officials…
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By Peter Kornbluh From The Nation Magazine In early April of 1963, a New York lawyer named James Donovan traveled to Havana to negotiate the release of U.S. citizens being held in…
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