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The Terror Con

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REPORTS

Quelle Surprise! Haiti on the Mend
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Ear to the ground

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A/V Booth

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Supreme Court Warning

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Arts & Culture

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Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
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Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

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“To Everything There is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song

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Tag: Humberto Leal

The Death Penalty and the Costs of an Obsession

By E.J. Dionne, Jr. —

The unseemly love affair of some American politicians with the death penalty is bad for justice and bad for our country’s standing in the world. It inflicts a wholly unnecessary moral stain on a nation that rightly preaches the rule of law to everyone else.