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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."