This essay was originally published in Discourse magazine. On Feb. 5, Mirtza Ocana, an American citizen of Cuban origin, arrived at Tampa International Airport from Havana and was arrested for ...

Communism has been proclaimed dead more than once in the past couple of decades. But today, it’s safe to say, it is really dead. Irreversibly dead. Cemetery dead. Consider this comment from a ...

Afro-Cuban activists Calvo Cárdenas and Manuel Cuesta Morúa created the Citizens Committee for Racial Integration (CIR) to advocate for Cuba’s underrepresented Afro-Cuban population. CIR champions ...

Media reports indicate that the dictatorship in Havana is encountering serious unrest and growing political opposition from Cubans in the streets demanding life’s necessities, such as basic ...

Timing is everything. Cubans are hungry, tired of power outages, and, after 64 years of socialism, fed up with tyranny. So they are taking to the island’s streets in droves, demanding food, ...

It's undeniably one of economist Milton Friedman's most famous sayings about the failures of central planning: "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd ...

In 2025, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' past — particularly her alleged ties to Cuba, communism and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro — came under scrutiny on social media. Bass has visited Cuba ...

How the polarizing Communist leader affected the world's view of the country. — -- For almost five decades, Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro ruled the island nation of Cuba and was a thorn in ...

Even though the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union has been over for more than a decade, North Korea's revival of its nuclear program is a chilling reminder that communism ...

(See Cover)It was Fidel Castro’s first major speech since the July 26 anniversary of his 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that started the Cuban revolution. There he stood last week before a crowd ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Friday communism no longer works in Cuba and the Church was ready to help the island find new ways of moving forward without "trauma". Speaking ...