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And the Senate plods ahead on the national security supplemental.

Just over a century ago, Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Russian Communist Party who orchestrated the October Revolution, died. We should not lament his death, for his revolution unleashed a century of crimes against humanity.

The polling of the views of so-called elites reflects the success of the right wing’s efforts to persuade a less-educated majority not to let the government "tell them what to do."

Despite China’s attempts to erode Taiwan’s democracy, Taiwanese voters chose to safeguard their hard-won, free, and democratic way of life.

"Government efforts to save people’s lives are never a folly," writes one reader. Another writes, "As a daily caregiver for more than a decade for both of my parents, I can attest that we suffered through the inhumanity of some of those policies."

Globe Opinion and Ideas editors weigh in on the best op-eds, columns, editorials, and special projects from 2023.

By the 1830s, events and people around the Revolution were regarded with reverence. That included reducing an act of extralegal violence to something as domestic, as unthreatening, as a tea party.

Readers offer contrasting reactions to a recent Jeff Jacoby column on lessons of Hanukkah.

"The Supreme Judicial Court must consider its impact on civil liberties," writes one stakeholder. Another writes, "The visionary action in Brookline to phase out tobacco sales to anyone born after 1999 is a major step forward."

An arts festival in Virginia has refused a proposal to light a Menorah to celebrate Hanukkah because of the war that Hamas started.