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Congress could help Puerto Rico recover. What's stopping it?Puerto Rico’s struggle to rebuild after Hurricanes Irma and Maria is being made harder by its own government, and an indifferent White House -
Remember this about Donald Trump. He knows the depths of American bigotryThe US president has a loyal base, and understands how to fuel their prejudices, writes the Guardian columnist Gary Younge
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Puerto Rico is on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. Where is the media?The destruction in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria has received relatively little attention. Are our disasters not important enough?
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Jill AbramsonJill AbramsonDespite claims made in her recent book, the news editors at the paper were never hostile to Clinton. The only proof I have is that I was thereThe New York Times had an anti-Hillary Clinton agenda? That's untrue
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