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Progressives not pleased with Dem leaders’ silence on Medicare for All

November 21, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—Progressive groups and individuals, whose energy, candidates, enthusiasm and votes swept congressional Democrats back into control of the U.S. House next year, are increasingly upset with top party leaders’ silence – at best -- on one...

Cuban doctors to leave Brazil courtesy of Jair Bolsonaro

November 21, 2018 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health announced Nov. 14 that some 8,000 Cuban doctors providing health care in Brazil will be returning to Cuba. The action was in response to Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s harsh criticism of...

Fifth graders compose and perform poignant songs about math and science

November 21, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

LOS ANGELES—Early last year a press release from the Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) came my way about high school kids in Van Nuys writing and performing a new oratorio on the theme of the Japanese...

The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?

November 21, 2018 By Sam Pizzigati

Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school...

U.S. weapons in hands of Trump’s Saudi pals create humanitarian disaster

November 21, 2018 By Associated Press And John Wojcik

Defying the world’s findings as he sits down to eat his Thanksgiving dinner, Trump defends Saudi prince who killed a Washington Post columnist and who is now starving Yemen’s children to death.