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Argentina against the world
The country's leader announces a new foreign policy: 'Long live freedom, damn it!'
November 6, 2024 • The Boston Globe
ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT Javier Milei, an outspoken champion of free markets and human liberty, proved his bona fides again last week. He dismissed Foreign Minister Diana Mondino after Argentina voted in the United Nations to condemn the US economic embargo on Cuba. The vote was 187-2 — only Israel stood with the United States — and it marked the 32d time that the General Assembly had denounced an American policy initiated by John F. Kennedy.
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November 3, 2024 • The Boston Globe
TO LOCK up voters' support on Election Day, a politician can spend tens of millions, even billions, of public dollars on a program, entitlement, or tax break that is guaranteed to be popular with a key demographic. A $25,000 subsidy for first-time home buyers? A tax break for tipped workers? A massive scheme to "forgive" student loan debt? In order to win elections, candidates routinely promise to deliver such costly benefits, assuring voters they will be financially better off if they back the right candidate.
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October 30, 2024 • The Boston Globe
NEXT WEEK, Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will be elected president of the United States. In my view, both outcomes would be a disaster, and I love this country too much to contribute to such a fate. Trump or Harris must win, but I will not help send either one to the White House. I will cast my ballot in this year's election, but I won't vote for president. This isn't the first time I have found both major-party candidates unacceptable. When it happened in the past I could vote in good conscience for the candidate running on the Libertarian ticket. But that isn't an option this year; the Libertarian Party has been taken over by a fanatical MAGA insurgency. So my only choice is to blank the presidential race.
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October 29, 2024 • Arguable
FORMER PRESIDENT Barack Obama, campaigning with vice presidential nominee Tim Walz at a Wisconsin rally last week, strongly urged supporters in the battleground state to take advantage of early voting and cast ballots for the Democratic ticket as soon as possible. "Even one or two extra votes per precinct will be enough to win this thing and send Kamala to the White House," said Obama, who is, as the Associated Press noted, the only president to carry Wisconsin by more than a percentage point in the past six elections. "If you haven't voted yet, I won't be offended if you just walk out right now," he told the crowd. "Go vote! Go do it!"
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October 23, 2024 • The Boston Globe
IF DONALD TRUMP wins the presidential election next month, he will almost certainly owe his victory in part to the Hispanic voters among whom his support has been surging. Yet even as he does so, he will doubtless still be raging that millions of migrants, most of them Hispanic, have entered this country as part of a plot to ensure the defeat of Republicans.
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