Has nothing changed since we were preparing to invade Iraq eight years ago? Yes, we have a new president, one who is smart and speaks in complete sentences. Yet we are about to jump pell-mell into escalating another war. With

Editor's note: To culminate our special "Revolution at 50" edition, we offer this slideshow of contemporary photographs by Kaloian, a staff photographer for the Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde (Young Rebel). All feature the Cuban flag, and none are accompanied by

The rare resignation on principle is always telling in American government. When Matthew Hoh left the State Department in October--a Marine Captain in Iraq who became a diplomat in Afghanistan early this year--his act was significant far beyond the first

Washington's favorite term these days is "moral hazard." Though this buzzphrase may seem like a complex and even intimidating idea, most of us, whether we consciously or not, understand the principle because it's basic common sense. Applaud your kid for

On September 20, more than 1 million people in the Plaza de la Revolucion watched Colombian rocker Juanes and his friends--cheering, dancing, swooning from the Havana heat. Those that watched the concert know there was merengue, salsa Nueva Trova (the

It's a bad marriage--the kind that makes you want to run down the aisle yelling, "Stop the wedding!" The planned union between Comcast and NBC Universal (NBCU) spells disaster: it paves the way for a new era of mega-media consolidation

Today is the day I've decided to write about. I'm sitting on the top bunk in the room I share with my son Bayron, who asks me to change the channel on the TV. My sister asks about the entrance

Ashley Ellis's misdemeanor arrest turned into a death sentence. Her crime: "careless and negligent operation of a motor vehicle." Less than two days after entering a Vermont prison on a 30-day sentence, she died from the careless and negligent operation

Climate-change activists at Copenhagen will argue that, far from solving the climate crisis, carbon-trading represents the unprecedented privatization of the atmosphere... Not only will these 'market-based solutions' fail to solve the climate crisis, but the failure will dramatically deepen poverty

EDITORS NOTE:The following posts are from the blog LGBT Cuba News Today.In These Times offers this selection in lieu of the article that was to have been written by Mario José Delgado Gonzáles (ultramarino321@yahoo.com), who was jailed in August for

Blog." Many people in Cuba don't understand all the fuss regarding this mono-syllabic word that seems to have no relationship to the daily routine of survival. On the Island, the blogosphere is an incipient media and, outside of Havana, all

On July 31, 2006, Fidel Castro, gravely ill, underwent emergency surgery and nearly died. He has been recuperating ever since. The day of the surgery, national radio and TV broadcast Fidel's announcement that he was passing the government's reins to

On October 16, Juventud Rebelde (Rebellious Youth), the official newspaper of the Union of Communist Youth, published an online article titled, "Against the Demons who Kidnap Information," by José Alejandro Rodríguez, a staff writer. The reproduction below was translated by

November marked the anniversary of major events in 1989: "the biggest year in world history since 1945," as British historian Timothy Garton Ash describes it. That year "changed everything," Garton Ash writes. Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms within Russia and his "breathtaking

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS--The de facto government in Honduras named Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo to be the new Honduras' new head of state Sunday, after a controversial election that many local and international human rights experts had denounced as constitutionally illegal. The result

If a group of people were to alight on the coast of Cuba in a hot air balloon and, like characters in a Jules Verne novel, try to understand their surroundings in order to guarantee their own survival, they'd certainly

As world leaders and delegations prepare to meet in Copenhagen for the two-week UN Climate Change conference beginning Monday, it's worth asking two basic questions: How bad is global warming? And is the world on track to fix it? To

When my family escaped from Cuba in 1963--on a boat in the middle of the night--we thought the Cuban Revolution wouldn't last. Soon, we believed, we'd be back home, in Cuba--brief sojourns in the U.S. having been practically a ritual

Dear Students, Where have we--your elders-failed? Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the Columbia University uprisings. The students had many grievances, including the university's attempt to build a private gym in a public park and its involvement in the