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Cuba ‘people to people’ trips back on track
By Laura Bly
From USA Today
After months of bureaucratic red tape and delays that forced several U.S. companies to cancel their popular "people to people" Cuba programs, the trips…
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Obama widens lead nationally among Latinos
From Latino Decisions
This week’s impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll found slight gains for presidential candidate Mitt Romney in battleground states with 33%…
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Where’s the rage?
By Saul Landau
Since we will not learn in school the lessons about the 1% we ought to know, many of us rely on movies and TV, so that through images and sound we can form ideas of who…
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Is Romney part of the 47%?
By Bill Press
In politics, there's nothing more fun than watching a politician self-destruct. Mitt Romney's doing a better job of it than most.
Let me count the ways. First, his…
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Classes
By David Brooks
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
NEW YORK – Occupy Wall street celebrated its first anniversary Monday, while the conditions that detonated the movement –…
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On a pedestal of nuclear immorality
By Saul Landau
What did Iran do to us to merit heavy U.S. sanctions? The media doesn’t ask this question. Oh yeah, 30-plus years ago Iranian zealots grabbed some CIA and…
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Republicans have bad case of buyer’s remorse
By Bill Press
As consumers, we know our rights, one of the most important of which is the right to return and exchange. Whether you're buying a new flat-screen TV from Best Buy, the…
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USA and Mexico: Best democracies money can buy
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes
"Do you really want to live in a country where one party is so desperate to win the White House that they go around trying to make it harder for…
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The only question that counts in 2012
By Bill Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In the wake of the Democratic Convention, only one question counts for voters: "Are we better off today than we were four years ago?"
It's…
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Think about life under President Romney – SHUDDER!
By Saul Landau
We survived eight years under George W. Bush, albeit seriously wounded by his two wars and a destroyed economy that resulted from his martial efforts. This year we…
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