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President Obama finally found his muscle on Israel, dispatching the US Ambassador to the United Nations to draw a line against the expansion of Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands. Then Secretary of State John Kerry explained why the US cannot…
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You divided liberals and made a cottage industry of it: social media bots and trolls, fake news, now a book about how you and your angry followers can ignite a revolution, Part 2. Clouded by mean ambition, you traded…
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is now blamed by pundits and Bernie Sanders because a lot of white people left the Democratic Party, installing Republican Party majority wins in the House, the Senate and the White House. Sanders, who is not a…
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I am at the gas station and wonder about the cashier, who sincerely wishes me a great day. Did you vote for him? Did you vote for the man who wants to ban Muslims from entering the United States? The same…
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If the 20 children and seven teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, killed in 2012, do not convince Republicans governors and lawmakers nationwide to make buying weapons a bureaucratic nightmare, then dozens of LGBTQ Latinos killed this…
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The small but loud Hillary Haters Club has grown even more spiteful. Maybe they know the truth already. That even as Sen. Bernie Sanders wins, he will not be the Democratic nominee because he lags far behind in delegates. And…
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In 1898, the exhausted Spanish empire illegally gave away Puerto Rico to the United States at the end of the Spanish-America War. Gen. Nelson Miles, an architect of the massacre of indigenous peoples in the 19th century in this country,…
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What’s With The Hillary Haters? My social media is awash with hard-charging conversations between Sen. Bernie Sanders supporters and me, a Loud & Proud Hillary Girl. The back-and-forths on former Sen. and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton go something like…
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Where I come from, not far from here but a world away, getting a good cup of coffee, just the way I want it, takes under two seconds. It’s a simple ask in Puerto Rico: Café con leche, por favor,…
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The Nov. 3 elections in Northampton tell a story of privilege, complacency and amnesia. The vast majority of registered voters didn’t show up because they 1) are happy with the way things are; 2) don’t care to participate in democracy…
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