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By Bill Press There are still a lot of questions about 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act. What does this mean for the Commerce Clause? How many states…
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By Jane Franklin Speech given July 6 in Montclair, New Jersey It’s an honor to be here once again to help send off another Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba. But wouldn’t it be nice if…
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By Saul Landau  “Americans will do anything for Latin America except read about it.”  - James Reston “You go Uruguay and I’ll go my way,” said Groucho…
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A The New York Times editorial Immigrants are known as entrepreneurial people, for obvious reasons: those with the ambition and energy to uproot themselves and build new lives in a…
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By Bill Press We know the Supreme Court. On December 12, 2000, it decided that George W. Bush would be the next president of the United States. On June 28, 2012, it decided that…
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By Sam Baker From The Hill The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the insurance mandate in President Obama’s healthcare law, a stinging defeat for conservatives who had insisted the law…
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By E.J. Dionne Jr. From The Washington Post Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court. He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d…
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By Curt Ventresca From Policymic.com It is time for the United States to remove the embargo against Cuba. The embargo has failed to achieve all of its stated goals (the removal of…
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By Jimmy Carter From The New York Times The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to…
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By Saul Landau What did Cuba do to the United States to merit 53 years of castigation? In 1960, those dirty Caribbean Commies joined the “evil” side in the Cold War…
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