The Right Direction

President Obama yesterday lifted restrictions on travel for Cuban-Americans, eased restrictions on humanitarian donations to Cubans, and eased restrictions on U.S. telecommunications firms entering into network agreements with Cuban telecom firms in a broad range of communications services.

Steve Clemons:

Applause, applause, applause. . .for a decent set of humanitarian gestures in the US-Cuba relationship that don't actually make things worse. Obama and his team have moved us in the right direction -- and moving in the right direction on Cuba is something that rarely happens when Presidents and their advisers look at electoral maps and get nervous about South Florida.