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Americans are right to support the death penalty, and they are right to have reservations about it.

Anyone who follows politics knows that Washington is frequently awash in hypocrisy.
The world won't change unless we change ourselves.
Two members of the California parole board recommended that RFK's killer be released from prison.
Denying needed health care to punish someone for making unwise choices is terrible public policy.
Just 1 in 5 Kiwis has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Nearly every media outlet reported that America's white population had dwindled since 2010. But that isn't what the census data showed.
It is strange, this talking point about Afghanistan being the "longest war" or a "forever war."

Nasdaq gets permission to mandate racial and gender quotas.

The purpose of the census is not to aggregate useful statistics for policy makers. It is to count everyone who lives here. Period.
If we no longer expect presidents to keep their word, maybe it's time to scrap the presidential oath.
Brookline's designation of Oct. 11 as Indigenous Peoples Day, a change made four years ago, has no logical connection with the arrangements being made for the Marathon's return.

The real racism associated with the Second Amendment isn't in the rights of gun ownership.
Truman wasn't in dire straits; that was a self-created myth.
Bad things can happen when art and culture must answer to the government.
Cubans know that their agony is caused by the ruthless despots who for more than six decades have stopped at nothing to keep them in chains.
At its most bizarre, denial actually celebrates sickness as a form of toughness or beauty.
With state government sitting on billions of dollars in surplus revenue, why not give businesses and consumers a temporary reprieve from paying sales tax?
Jews constitute just 2 percent of the US population, but they are the victims in more than 60 percent of religion-based hate crimes.
The best advice for any president is to behave with integrity and care, and not worry about history's ultimate verdict.