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Reader Comments: With Minimum Wage Can't Afford Rent; US Blockade of Cuba Sparks Protests; Recovering Racist History; Climate Change on Lake Michigan; Socialism No Longer Dirty Word; Lots (and lots) of Announcements

Despite its pledges to aid Central America, the Biden administration continues to deny the United States’ role in destabilizing the region.

“Even when the events depicted are far away, journalists and forensic analysts, deeply immersed in a flood of explicit, violent, and disturbing photos and video, may feel that it is seeping into their own personal headspace...”

I had seen too much: I was a witness, not only to torture but to the fact that an American was the boss of a Guatemalan torture squad.

"An extensive network of groups financed by the US government sends cash to Cuba to thousands of so-called 'democracy activists', journalists and dissidents every year."

The 1970 murder of a U.S. police advisor in Uruguay offers lessons for police reform debates today.

Sharp reductions in spending on police, prisons, and the Pentagon could free up hundreds of billions of dollars for programs that might begin to fill the gap in spending on public investments in communities of color and elsewhere.

...we will continue to...ensure that the story of Abu Ghraib won’t be defined by what is in those photographs, but instead what was done about it.

The United States must abandon Cold War-era foreign policies and accept that Cuba is a sovereign nation free to define its political future— even if that means continuing socialism.

Withdrawing even some of the U.S. troops, planes, drones and bombers from Afghanistan will reduce the killing.