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Joshua Kurlantzick: It's Time to End the Cuban Embargo (Dallas Morning News opinion piece)

...John McCain has indicated he would continue the current policy. And as Washington policy analyst Steve Clemons notes, Mike Huckabee, who backed greater engagement with Cuba when he was governor of Arkansas, now says he wants to put still more pressure on Havana.

So, even as Cuba and the world changes, the candidates seem stuck in the past, keeping a shrinking number of Cuban-American voters… more

While there are deep and divisive fissures across the political spectrum over how to combat terrorism, there is a surprising level of agreement as to its cause.

"We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror," President Bush told an audience in Mexico in 2002.

Kim Dae Jung, the former dissident who became the president of South Korea and won the Nobel Peace Prize, agrees: "At the bottom of terrorism is poverty."

This sort of analysis, at its… more

Patients, health economists and even some doctors agree: Our health care system is a breathtakingly expensive, bewildering mess...

One in four Texas residents has no health insurance. Parkland Hospital spent more than $410 million last year treating the uninsured...

Health care costs are breaking budgets across the world, spurring cost-cutting ideas ranging from better information technology to rationing. But no one else spends as much as the United States, where health care absorbs $2.2 trillion a year, or more than 16… more

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz quietly ascended the throne in August after the death of his long ailing brother. Though his rise was expected and captured little media attention, he just may be one of the most important and little-known world leaders today.

Here's why: Saudi Arabia remains the central bank of oil. Its role as a moderating price influence on OPEC in an environment of price volatility is more important than ever. As home to Islam's two holiest mosques and… more