Analysis
Cubans look to U.S. example to fix racism? Not so fast
March 25, 2016A New York Times reporter claims the visit of an African-descended U.S. president to the island could help end silence on an issue which he thinks persists.
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A national object lesson: California’s air and coast, a buyer’s market
March 25, 2016Most recently, the South Coast Air Quality Management District upended its mission to clean our air.
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A terrible beauty: Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
March 25, 2016It is a hundred years since some 750 men and women threw up barricades and seized strong points in downtown Dublin, to be joined by maybe a thousand more.
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Wisconsin an Alamo for both Bernie and the anti-Trump forces
March 24, 2016People are beginning to take matters into their own hands. That's an emotional response difficult for politicians to channel.
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New opera “Fallujah”: Heartbreaking look at war and PTSD online now
March 23, 2016It is the first opera written about the Iraq War, and it is highly worthwhile.
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