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IN MY OPINION

Glenn Garvin: Welcome to ‘unwelcome’ speech on campus

BY GLENN GARVIN glenngarvin@miamiherald.com

I know it was hard to hear anything last week over the cacophony of the White House roof falling over Benghazi, the IRS and spying on reporters. But still, I was surprised there wasn’t more fuss about the Obama administration’s war on Shakespeare.
APPAREL INDUSTRY

On Asian sweatshops Americans share blame

BY MARY SANCHEZ

Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I’m partly to blame.
MARCH ON INNOVATION

Immigration reform: the final battle

BY CARLOS GUTIERREZ

Over the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands of international students will graduate from our universities and be sent back home by our broken immigration system — along with their ideas and talent. As we enter a new growing season, farmers across the country will be forced to cut back on production as they struggle to find adequate labor. And business owners will continue fighting against an economy that is still finding its way out of a recession.
PAKISTAN

Pakistan: Nawaz Sharif’s third chance to get it right

BY MANSURA MINHAS

On May 11, Pakistanis rejoiced at the first peaceful transition of power from one civilian government to another. However, that should not overshadow the problems that the country faces. The ball is in Nawaz Sharif’s court, the likely next prime minister. Having served twice before, he is lucky to have a rare, third chance to run the country.
MELTING ARCTIC

Melting Arctic requires U.S. action

BY JULIETTE KAYYEM

The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations — particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The process is like the annual scramble for summer camp: The need for planning begins around February, when the season seems so far away and the kids are still in school and wearing snow boots. Then, suddenly, it’s mid-May.
D.C. SCANDALS

D.C. scandals need to be put in perspective

BY RUTH MARCUS

Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It’s a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph — not even the first page — of the account of the Obama administration in the history books.
NEW TRAVEL RULES

Leaving Castro’s Cuba behind

BY EDUARD FREISLER

The first wave of Cubans — many of them for the first time in 50 years — are leaving their island to see the world. Among them the famous blogger Yoani Sánchez. They seize the opportunity of Cuba’s new travel law which went into effect earlier this year. Finally.