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Cuba: Looking back and ahead
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés
(First of two parts.)
In 2012, the White House will focus on the most important of international and national issues: the re-election of the…
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How to run a Republican primary
By Bill Press
You have to see it on the ground to believe what a mess Republicans have made of this election. It's the worst way to run a primary campaign – unless your goal was to…
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President Obama’s State of the Union address 2012
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
Last month, I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops…
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Mitt Romney bumper sticker: Greed is good!
By Bill Press
He barely won the Iowa primary. He handily won New Hampshire. He's going to win South Carolina next. So now we know the Republican nominee for president will be: Gordon…
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Republican presidential candidates: Comedy or farce?
By Saul Landau
“Oy,” sobs the old woman. “Oy! Oy!”
“What’s the matter, grandma?” asks a man passing by.
“Oy, I’m so thirsty!”
He returns with a glass of water. She drinks it and…
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Free enterprise on trial
By Robert Reich
From the Robert Reich blog
Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as "free enterprise on trial" – defining free enterprise as achieving success through…
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Give Guantanamo back to Cuba
By Jonathan M. Hansen
From The New York Times
IN the 10 years since the Guantánamo detention camp opened, the anguished debate over whether to shutter the facility — or make it…
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Ending a cruel immigration twist
From The Washington Post Editorial Board
America’s half-baked immigration system is riddled with unfair, arbitrary and inhumane provisions, but few are so senseless and cruel…
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A tale of 2 countries
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés
“…they cannot forgive us, who are there in front of their noses and who have made a socialist revolution before the very nose of the United…
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Santorum gets his (brief) moment in the sun
By Bill Press
Mitt "Landslide" Romney may have won the Iowa caucuses by a whopping eight votes, but everybody knows the real winner was former Pennsylvania Senator Rick…
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