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A Dangerous Little Beehive?

A Cuban children's troupe has performed around the globe but finds it almost impossible to enter the United States.

Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Watching the Reporters

After three foreign correspondents are decertified, is Cuba sending a message to the international press corps?

John Dinges

Miami Vise

Cuban-American moderates are on the rise, but hard-liners still run the show.

Max J. Castro

Ferdinand VII

Whose astonishing wisdom led to preserving a statue of the monstrous Ferdinand VII in Havana?

Gore Vidal

Terror and the Counterterrorists

Five Cuban counterterrorism experts are being held indefinitely in American prisons while the "bin Laden of Latin America" is let free.

Peter Kornbluh

The Changing of the Guard

A panel of experts explores the view from Havana.

Peter Kornbluh and Alberto Coll and Saul Landau and William M. LeoGrande and Philip Peters and Ramón Sánchez-Parodi

The Supergirl Syndrome

The marketing-driven message of the perfect girl--smart, skinny, pretty, athletic and loved by all--is a model of perfection that's hard to live up to. Can't girls just be free to ...

Lakshmi Chaudhry

The Higher Education Scam

Marilee Jones excelled as admissions dean at MIT, until she was fired for falsifying her resume. But what good is a college degree, anyway?

Barbara Ehrenreich

Pull the Plug on the Mercenary War

Who will stop the shadow US army in Iraq? Don't count on Congressional Democrats.

Jeremy Scahill

The Future of the Party?

Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?

Habiba Alcindor

The Democrats’ Depressing Debate

The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.

Bob Moser

A New Stance Toward Havana

The peaceful transfer of power in Cuba presents an opportunity for the US government to abandon its policy of perpetual hostility.

Julia E. Sweig

Books & the Arts

Cafe Society

Clive James's erudite new collection of essays celebrates the best of twentieth-century art, thought and politics.

William Deresiewicz

Stranger in the City

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears tells the story of an Ethiopian immigrant's unrequited love affair with the American Dream.

Tara Gallagher

The Art of the Improviser

Nearly fifty years after Ornette Coleman revolutionized jazz, he is finally being honored with the music world's top awards.

David Yaffe

A Dangerous Little Beehive?

A Cuban children's troupe has performed around the globe but finds it almost impossible to enter the United States.

Rosa Miriam Elizalde

Ferdinand VII

Whose astonishing wisdom led to preserving a statue of the monstrous Ferdinand VII in Havana?

Gore Vidal