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What is the Meaning of Super Tuesday, you ask. I’ll tell you. Start with the facts. Biden made a comeback. Sanders won California. The other candidates either got pushed down, or dropped out, mostly to support Biden. The one candidate who was clearly defeated was not Sanders but Bloomberg, whose candidacy lacks any clear rationale…

In reply to Vicente Medina. Your comment is perfectly consistent with my post. I know very little about Cuban history except the basics, and don’t claim to be competent enough in it to debate it with anyone (least of all Cubans). I was just comin…

Irfan, let us try to distinguish between the facts and the laudatory comment by Bernie Sanders about Fidel Castro’s literacy campaign. It is a fact that such a campaign took place and that roughly 700,000 people or thereabouts benefited from the campai…

This is a syndicated post, originally published by Max Roser at Our World in Data.

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