http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Issues & Ideas 60 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:40:01 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835434.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835434.html Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:01 EST Joaquín Villalobos, 57, was one of the top commanders of the FMLN, the coalition of guerrilla groups that in the 1980s waged a bloody civil war against the U.S.-supported government of El Salvador. He was also one of the negotiators and signatories of the peace accords that ended hostilities in 1992. Villalobos progressively distanced himself from the FMLN and in 1995 moved to Oxford, England. Since then, he has been working as an advisor in peace processes and transitions to democracy... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835436.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835436.html Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:01 EST By the early 1970s, patronage politics had severely undermined confidence in Florida's judiciary. After he became governor in 1971, Reubin Askew issued an executive order to limit political influence on judicial selections and establish merit as the basis on which Florida filled vacancies at every level of the court system. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835425.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835425.html Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:01 EST During Opening Ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics, former Cuban sports heroes Teofilo Stevenson, Javier Sotomayor and Ana Fidelia Quirot sat together inside Bird's Nest Stadium. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835437.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/835437.html Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:01 EST When the new Congress begins this week, a great many familiar faces will be missing. While the most notable absentees will be the new president- and vice president-elect, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, something tells me we will see plenty of them in coming months. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/827734.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/827734.html Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Even in hard times, this is the holiday season and a time when thoughts turn to home and family and dinner tables covered with food and gaily wrapped presents and bright lights. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/827737.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/827737.html Sun, 28 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The coming year will be a narrative of tension -- a series of difficult choices between the imperatives of the present and those of tomorrow. How we resolve this tension will be the measure of our vision and our leadership. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820274.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820274.html Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:01 EST OK, dittoheads, that's my explanation of how all these bailouts are going to lead to a government takeover of the American economy that will bankrupt us all. And now I'm going to hand my microphone over to those fine young folks from Air America for the next two hours to explain how idiotically wrong I am about all this. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820281.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820281.html Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:01 EST BAGHDAD -- As soon as I arrived here, I went to visit the neighborhood of Hay Salaam, my bellwether as to the city's condition and prospects. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820271.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820271.html Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:01 EST In 1949, a pamphlet was published that argued that the American auto industry should pursue a different direction. Titled ''A Small Car Named Desire,'' the pamphlet suggested that Detroit not put all its bets on bigness, that a substantial share of American consumers would welcome smaller cars that cost less and burned fuel more efficiently. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820288.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/820288.html Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:01 EST It's been barely a month since Ray Sansom was sworn in as Florida's new speaker of the House, and the Destin Republican is already in trouble. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810861.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810861.html Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:01 EST President-elect Barack Obama's choice of retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the smartest and best appointment he's made so far. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810860.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810860.html Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:01 EST From the voluminous, still-to-be-indexed FBI wiretaps of Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich: The governor: ``Molly, get me Satan on the phone.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810844.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810844.html Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:01 EST We surely all had the same question upon reading the story last week that real-estate developer Jorge Perez and sugar magnate Alfonso Fanjul have had talks to buy The Miami Herald. Given the sad economics of newspapers today, what would be their motive to own this one? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810847.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:56 EST Fifty years after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, the big question about the Cuban revolution is not whether it was justified, but whether it was worth it. From all available evidence, it wasn't. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810998.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/810998.html Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:26 EST From the day she landed on one of the Freedom Flights as an excited, frightened 7-year-old, Luisa Yanez has been fascinated by the massive U.S. airlift that brought her and 265,000 other Cubans to the United States four decades ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801269.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801269.html Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The bosses of the nation's three biggest automakers drove to Washington, D.C., this past week -- in their hybrid cars -- to plead once more for a government loan to see them through one of the worst periods in their history. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801277.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801277.html Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Now that automakers are all busy gearing up to make electric vehicles, consumers should be getting a choice of roomy, speedy, gasoline-free models that charge up at a standard 110-volt socket. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801258.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801258.html Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01 EST Sure, there's plenty of pressure on Barack Obama. But imagine being his wife. The moving trucks haven't even arrived and already Michelle Obama's being touted as the next Jackie Kennedy, the woman who'll infuse Washington with a sense of style and vigor not seen since the days of Camelot. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801270.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801270.html Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01 EST The Detroit Three presented plans to demonstrate their continued viability with $35 billion in federal assistance; they continue to be hammered by policy makers for producing too many trucks and not enough fuel-sipping cars. Before they get too carried away with their rhetoric, I urge policy makers to keep in mind what the American public wants and what they can do to help achieve a better balance in the mix of cars and trucks purchased by the American public. The plans the automakers presented addressed... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801280.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/issues_ideas/story/801280.html Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:01 EST When state Sen. Dan Gelber picked up The Miami Herald one recent morning, he was surprised by what he saw on the front page. It wasn't the news itself that struck him. It was seeing a St. Petersburg Times story on the cover of his hometown newspaper.