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July 30, 2019

Elections and Voting
The Presidential Candidates on Russian Aggression Against Ukraine

What, if any, steps would you take to counter Russian aggression against Ukraine?

July 27, 2011

Cuba
Key Days in Our Hostage Crises

Decisions will be coming in the next few days in the cases of our hostages in Cuba and in Iran. In Cuba, the “Supreme Peoples Court” heard the appeal of Alan Gross last Friday and should be announci…

October 29, 2012

Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: Secret Soviet Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, a Coda)

Washington and the world breathed a sigh of relief on Monday, October 29, 1962.  The day before President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had struck a deal to end the Cuban missil…

President John F. Kennedy speaks with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during an ExCom meeting. (Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)

January 6, 2015

Cuba
Cuba: More Political Prisoners, But the New U.S. Policy Marches Onward

There are more Cuban political prisoners  today than on the day President Obama announced his deal with the Castro brothers, December 17. Part of that deal was supposed to see 53 Cuban political pri…

May 29, 2015

Cuba
Cuba and the Terrorism List

The Obama administration announced today that Cuba comes off the "terrorism list." Here is some of what it said: the President in December instructed the Secretary of State to immediately launch a …