A UK professor criticized how thugs dealt with her mother's accidental death, so they investigated her political background and listed her as mentally ill.

Tiny Cuba is contributing more to the fight against Ebola than the grand United States.

There is good and bad in the Cuban revolution. The good is that Cuba has thrown off the foreign plutocracy and done wonders for the people in the areas of health care, education, and organic farming.

The bad is that Cuba does not recognize freedom of speech or freedom of travel. Dissident Oswaldo Payá, who campaigned for those principles, was reportedly killed by the state which arranged a car crash and blamed his driver.

Payá, who impressed me more than anyone else in Cuba, wanted to maintain the social advances of the Cuban revolution.

The US boycott of Cuba makes no sense except as a sop to the exiles who have a lot of influence in Florida.

US citizens: Oppose the plan to build a highway through a designated roadless area in the Tongass national forest.

A UK professor criticized how thugs dealt with her mother's accidental death, so they investigated her political background and listed her as mentally ill.

US citizens: call on your state's election officials to count every vote.