It was remarkable how many non-Cubans knew the Cuban national anthem well enough to sing along Monday as the flag was raised over the newly re-established embassy on 16th Street NW. Then they joined in the delirious shouts of “Viva Cuba!” … “It’s an amazing...
… And the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning think tank, reported that the overall Wall Street bonus pool, which clocked in at a cool $28.5 billion, is double the combined annual earnings of full-time minimum wage workers in the U.S. The organization...
On Tuesday, the center and its director, Robin Reineke, are receiving one of three Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards in the District, along with veteran international human rights lawyer Juan Mendez and an organization that assists women in Mexico and Central...
Starting last year, a piece of the Affordable Care Act lowered the limit to $500,000 for health insurers (although the $1 million limit still applies to the rest of corporate America). It also eliminates the tax carve out for what tends to be much more lucrative...
Whatever else we’ve learned from more than 10 years of U.S. intervention in Iraq, it should be eminently clear that we can’t defeat Islamist extremists with airstrikes.
There was a time when Tope Folarin came almost daily to Politics and Prose not to sip iced lattes, as he’s doing on this recent Sunday afternoon, but to learn his craft by reckoning with language. Back then, he sat in this bookstore cafe and copied poetry into a...
“Liberal and conservative groups alike are circulating reports that allege that the chief executives who comprise Fix the Debt run companies that have been promoting a “rash of corporate tax breaks” in the name of pro-growth tax reform....
“President Obama owned Governor Romney in their second debate on issues of foreign policy, women, immigration, and the 47 percent. He even leveled a fatal blow regarding Benghazi. Don’t get me wrong: Mitt was no wimp, and Obama was no progressive, but...
The loudest chant in Tahrir Square remains “Down, down with military rule!” Many protesters in the Square have already announced their intention to remain in Tahrir once again, reprising the 18 days of the spring uprising, until the SCAF has transferred...
“These individual CEOs are being rewarded for presiding over companies that dodge taxes,” said Chuck Collins, one of the study’s co-authors and a senior scholar at the Institute of Policy Studies.
The Post editorial board is absolutely right that the Obama administration should consider the $1 billion a year in U.S. aid to Egypt in the context of Egypt’s domestic repression and the role of its military, and that Congress should “link military funds...
