Barack Obama on Diplomacy
With his preference for diplomacy over militarism, we must neither be naïve about Barack Obama’s limitations nor cynical about his potential.
Filming Fidel: A Cuban Diary, 1968
Reflecting on an encounter four decades ago
Democracy Rising
Grassroots movements change the face of power.
Interview with Kalamu ya Salaam
Poet and educator Kalamu ya Salaam talks with E. Ethelbert Miller about Hurricane Katrina, war, and geopolitics.
Museum of Spies
The Spy Museums message: we needed spooks during the Cold War and we need them now more than ever. But whats missing from the exhibits?
Spirit of Christmas Pastand Future
Ian Williams explains why rum is the true global spirit, with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean.
Politics, Humanism and Sen. Johnson
The initial announcement of Senator Tim Johnson’s (D-SD) sudden incapacitation and emergency brain surgery struck political Washington like the proverbial bombshell.
Bush’s Dysfunctional Cuba Policy
The Bush administration’s Cuba policy has reached a dead end.
Cuba, Misunderestimated
It’s time to let Americans go to Cuba, erode the embargo and open the island to cultural and political currents that might bring pleasant and democratic winds of change.
Reflections on U.S. Double Standard on Terrorism
A Cuban expatriate has forced the administration to decide on terrorist criteria: “acceptable” acts of terrorism carried out against Cuba versus “unacceptable” ones undertaken against the United States and its allies.