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  Support our nonprofit journalism   May 22, 2026 The Trump administration has a tendency to  antagonize  America's neighbors: perpetual threats to  buy, annex, or conquer Greenland ,  illegal strikes  against Caribbean fishing boats, and the  kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro . Throughout it all, Trump’s imperial ambitions have zoned in on one small island: Cuba. “Other presidents have looked at [Cuba] for 50, 60 years, doing something,”  Trump said on Thursday . “And it looks like I’ll be the one that does it...I would be happy to do it.” The US has kept Cuba under a trade embargo since the 1960s. And for about the past four months, America has  blockaded oil tankers  from docking on the island. Two weeks ago, Cuban minister of energy Vicente de la O Levy warned that the island of nearly 11 million people  had run out of oil . As  Reveal’ s Laura Morel reported, Cuba's once-vaunted hospital system is...

SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION...IT'S TIME FOR REPUBLICANS  TO THINK AND RE-ASSESS THEIR POLICIES.....OR DIE!    Dead Elephant? Matt KerbeL May 11, 2026 My colleague John Kenneth White  published a provocative column  in  The Hill  newspaper last week with a headline bearing the warning:  “The Republican Party May Not Survive the Trump Day of Reckoning.” John is an emeritus professor at Catholic University and scholar of party systems.  He has been warning about the demise of the Republican party for years, and  wrote a book about it called  Grand Old Unraveling . John and I are also co-authors of an upcoming book about the last three  elections and what they portend for the future.  It’s called  Democracy on the Edge . But more on that shortly. In his column, John presupposes that a day of reckoning is coming for  Donald Trump, and questions whether his party will crater in its wake. He recognizes the diff...